The method of treating gun-shot wounds / by John Ranby.

  • Ranby, John, 1703-1773.
Date:
1781
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Credit: The method of treating gun-shot wounds / by John Ranby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A Colonel of Dragoons received a cut, from a broad-fword, on the fore part of the head, upon the edge of the hairy fcalp, about four inches in length. This wound divided both tables of the fcull, a piece of which, of about an inch broad, and very near two inches long, was quite loofened from the main bone. He had two or three more cuts on the head, a wound on one fide of the belly, made by a mufket-bal], that went aflant the lower part of the belly, through the abdominal mufcles, and carried in a piece of his fafh along with it; and feme more cuts and ffabs in other places of the body. This young gentleman, thus early dis- playing: