Gunshot injuries: their history, characteristic features, complications, and general treatment : with statistics concerning them as they have been met in warfare / by Sir T. Longmore.

Thomas Longmore

Date:: 1895

Credit: Gunshot injuries: their history, characteristic features, complications, and general treatment : with statistics concerning them as they have been met in warfare / by Sir T. Longmore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$MED Leipsic, battles of, numbers struck by cannon-shot at Less wounds than projectiles Liability to be hit, relative to colour of uniform Liharzik'sdrawingsof human frame Linen imbedded in bullets . Linked bullets, in Crimean war . used in Oude .... Linseed meal poultices . Lint, moistened as a dressing Liquid and gaseous projectiles Lister's early mode of wound dressing ..... much simplified of late years Litters, mule Local treatment of gunshot injuries antiseptic dressings carbolised tow carded oakum.... charpie, carbolised. cyanide of mercury and zinc . deodorant applications . iodoform .... linseed meal poultices . moistened lint as dressing perchloride of mercury . phenic acid .... salicylic acid .... Local treatment of injuries from large projectiles ... Lodged foreign bodies, effects on wounds of frequently overlooked . remarkable positions of . Lodgment, causes of of articles carried in pockets. of coins and trousers pocket in the vastus externus muscle of coins from neighbour's pocket .... of conoidal bullets . of foreign bodies from sur- rounding objects. of fragments of wounded comrades .... of large projectiles . of scales of lead from bullets of small-bore bullets of twenty Napoleons in abdo- men of two knives in thigh . of various foreign bodies relative to distance Lodged substances, cloth very irri- tating, even few fibres effects of, on cicatrisation encysted, may cause mischief encystment and isolation of . frequently overlooked general effects variable . Lodged substances—continued. 690 gunpowder grains . . . 347 166 in cavities with natural outlets 230 in the tongue, undiscovered . 233 657 ] movement of surrounding 706 parts a source of irritation . 344 259 on what impunity from, cle- 60 pends 344 60 organic or inorganic, effects of 343 434 part of body where lodged 433 [ important . . . .344 66 porous bodies .... 342 remote effects of . . 339 438 Loeffler, on effects of increase in 4391 dimensions of battles. . . 716 651 j on wounds in war of 1864 . 723 433 ( Longwy, no hits though 30,000 437 ! missiles fired at . . . . 688 437 Loss of substance in bullet tracks 184 436: ; Losses,' varieties of meaning 436 ' given to this term . . . 695 441 | 437 441 i Macdowall on pyaemia at siege of 434 Paris ... . . . .300 433 Machine guns .... 31 440 Maclean on tetanus in China war 438 of 1840-42 317 440 Magazine explosions, effects of . 172 Magazine rifle bullet ... 46 454 \ composition of ... 46 penetrative energy of .82 235 penetrative power of .46 229 section, with measurements . 47 235 Malays, bullets used by . .60 219 Manoeuvring stretchers on parade 223 and in the field . . . .636 Marquees and bell tents, hospital 623 Marshall's diagrams, areas of parts of body in 707 227 Martini-Henry bullets . . . 43 220 muzzle velocity of . . .110 rate of rotation of . . . 110 226; section, with measurements . 44 weight of .... 88 226 Martini-Henry rifle ... 43 229' greatest range ... 43 228 i point-blank range ... 44 220! rapidity of fire 43 relative accuracy of aim . 43 2241 striking force. . . .45 224 I Matthew on prevention of contrac- 222 tion during healing . . . 451 220 Mauser rifle 55 Maxim automatic gun ... 33 342 M'Grigor, prevalence of tetanus 340 I with typhus and allied diseases 318 346 Medical field companions . . 609 345' contents of . . .611 2291 valise 612 339' sketch of .... 610$