Wounds, with a discussion of what constitutes rational treatment / by Frederic Griffith.
- Griffith, Frederic.
- Date:
- 1902
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Wounds, with a discussion of what constitutes rational treatment / by Frederic Griffith. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![eprinted from The Medical NEW^frfsfept. 27, 1902.] d 3 MOV 02 'C ' \%\ \ * > __ , WOUNDS, WITH A DISCUSSION' OF WHAT CON- STITUTES RATIONAL TREATMENT.* BY FREDERIC GRIFFITH, M.D., OF NEW YORK; SURGEON, BELLEVUE DISPENSARY; FELLOW OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE; ASSISTANT SURGEON AT THE NEW YORK POLYCLINIC SCHOOL AND HOSPITAL; ASSISTANT SUR- GEON (G.-U.), NEW YORK HOSPITAL (HOUSE OF RELIEF). The subject of wounds must ever remain of great interest to the surgeon, for the considera- tion of them in one form or another makes up the bulk of his work in practice. My purpose is to write with especial reference to the conditions governing the healing of granulating wounds. A wound, as commonly defined, is a solution of continuity of the soft parts. Direct mechanical violence is usually implied as being the acute cause of wounds but microbic action in the form of ulceration is likewise able to cause a chronic form of wounding. Besides being acute or fresh, chronic or old, wounds, according to their relation to the body surface, are designated as open, when the skin or mucous surface is di- vided proportionately to the tissues beneath, and closed or subcutaneous, when there is little or no break in the epithelial tissue covering. Classified descriptively, wounds are contused, lacerated, incised, punctured, poisoned and burned. Owing to the teaching that gunshot injuries should always be probed for the purpose of locating and removing a lodged missile or frag- ments of clothing or other extraneous matter which might be carried past the point of entrance, it was deemed necessary by the older writers to * Re?d before the Surgical Section of the New York Academy of Medicine. May 12. 1902.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22379666_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
