A treatise on gun-shot wounds, on inflammation, erysipelas, and mortification, on injuries of nerves, and on wounds of the extremities requiring the different operations of amputation ... / [G.J. Guthrie].

  • George James Guthrie
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1827
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Credit: A treatise on gun-shot wounds, on inflammation, erysipelas, and mortification, on injuries of nerves, and on wounds of the extremities requiring the different operations of amputation ... / [G.J. Guthrie]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Turner, Capt. Macgennis, 57. The Guards generally, 57. * Conclu- sions as to various kinds of constitutions, 59. Treatment of gun- shot wounds, 60. Error generally entertained as to the whole track of a wound sloughing, 61. Cold applications to be preferred, 62. Rollers uot to be used on the field of battle, 63. Poultices in general the precursors of amputation, 64. Not used after the battle of Toulouse without a special reason being given, 64. Proper period for poultices, and return to cold applications, 65. Case of Sir R. Croft’s son, 67. Cold not to be applied to the trunk, 68. History of appearances after the receipt of a wound, and treatment, 69. Frie- tion, pressure, 72. Lodgment of extraneous matters, 72. Case of soldier at Badajos, of an officer, case by Dr. Chermside, 72. Mode of examination, 73. Ambrose Paré and Wiseman on incisions, 75. Baron Percy, 76. Mr. Hunter, 78. Mr. J. Bell, 81. Practice during the Peninsular war, 82. Opinions of Mr. John and Mr. Charles Bell commented upon, 83. The error explained, 85. Proper idea of scarification, 88. Dr. Hennen’s opinions referred to, 88. Punctured wounds, 89. Balls ought to be removed from bones, 91. Sometimes not. Case of Lieut. Colonel Dumaresq, 91. Flexible tube, or Portean’s trocar, useful, 92. When extraction of. balls is proper, and the reverse, 94. Sometimes difficult from membranous attachments, 94. Two cases in proof, of Staff-surgeon Lindsey and Assistant-surgeon Robson, 95. Of Colonel Ross, 95. A pecu- liar consequence of gun-shot wound. Case of Assistant-surgeon Curby, 29th regiment, of Surgeon Mahony, Royal Fusiliers, 96. Case by Mr. Knight, Inspector General, 97.. Symptoms and mode of treatment, 98. Erysipelatous inflammation, 99. Opinions on, 100. Author’s opinions, 101. Treatment of, 104. Erysipelas not common in gun-shot wounds, ]04. On the Erysipelas phlegmonodes, 104. Mr. Hutchison’s mode of treatment, 106. Author’s opinion and cases, 106. Another peculiar consequence of gun-shot wounds, 111. Cases in suport of, 112, 113. Doubts as to the nature of this inflammation, 114. Mortification, 114. Different kinds of, 115. Author’s opinions, 116. Division into local and constitutional, . 116. Humid gangrene, 116. Amputation improper, 118. Dry gangrene, 120. Mr. Pott’s and M. Quesnai’s opinions, 120. Dr. Thomson and Dr. Woolaston, 121. Baron Larrey on traumatic gangrene, 122. . Author’s opinions, 125. On the nature and‘cause of an injury said to be inflicted by the wind of a cannon-ball, 127. Successful case of amputation during mortification by Deputy Inspector Campbell at Brussels, 129. -Mortification from an injury of the principal artery; 132. Two errors pointed out, 133. The proper practice and period
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