Volume 1

Illustrations of Mr. S. Cooper's surgical dictionary / by W.P. Cocks, surgeon.

  • Cocks, W. P.
Date:
1831[-1833]
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Credit: Illustrations of Mr. S. Cooper's surgical dictionary / by W.P. Cocks, surgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    GUN-SHOT WOUNDS. Gun-shot wounds are the most considerable of . the contused kind. They are })articularly cha- racterized by what the French surgeons are fond of calling, a disorganization of their sur- face. The excessive contusion, and violence, observable in them, depend upon the rai)idity with which the bodies occasioning them are propelled. If a musket or pistol-ball has struck a fleshy part, without injuring any material blood-vessel, we see a hole, about the size of, or smaller than, the bullet itself, with a more or less discoloured lip, forced inwards, and, if it has passed through the ])arts, we find an inverted edge, and a more ragged and larger orifice at the point of its exit. The hemorrhage is in this case very slight, and the pain inconsiderable, insomuch that, in many instances, the wound- ed man is not aware of his having received any L