Wounds in war : the mechanism of their production and their treatment / by W.F. Stevenson.

  • William Flack Stevenson
Date:
1910
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    nient of these injuries, and to point out the difficulties as well as the advantages of antiseptic methods on active service as shown by actual experience in the held. In preparing this edition I have to acknowledge my indebted- ness to Sir William Taylor, K.C.B., the Director-General, A.M.S., for permission to use surgical records of the late war, as well as to the writings of Sir Ph'ederick Treves, Mr. Makins, Messrs. Bowlby and Wallace, Mr. Watson Cheyne, and others, from which I have quoted important facts and opinions. We know now the nature and character of the injuries modern projectiles produce in the various structures of the human body under the actual conditions of warfare, matters which formerly were undetermined, and we know that modern surgery, although the means for its employment on active service have not yet been brought up to ideal conditions, did so much for the wounded in the two late wars in the reduction of death- rates and the preservation of limbs, that surgeons will, in future campaigns, be stimulated to even more strenuous efforts to make advances on what has already been achieved, and happily there is every reason for feeling assured that they will be successful. A chapter on X-rays has been added to this edition, and I have been fortunate enough to get Mr. James Mackenzie Davidson to write the section on localisation and stereoscopic skiagraphy, matters which it is well known he is eminently well qualihed to teach. The additional illustrations are, for the most part, reproduc- tions of skiagraphs taken by officers of the R.A.M.C., or by Mr. Lionel Sells, Mr. Catling, or Mr. ]. Paxton, experts sent out to South Africa for this work, and by myself at Netley after my return from South Africa. One other matter 1 shall take this opportunity of referring to as briefly as may be. I have, on occasions, been asked what is “military surgery”; indeed, more