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
Date:
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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    Opinions on both, 184. On injuries of nerves in bleeding, 185. Mr. _Earle’s case, 187, Means of mitigating pain, 187. Palliative cure, 188. On the temperature of animals, 188. Mr. Brodie, Sir E. Home, Dr. W. Philip, 189. Dr. W. Philip’s conclusions, 189. Ob- servations on, 190. Doubts as to the correctness, 191. Dr. Wilson Philip’s explanation of them, 192. Case of a gentleman, who has lost only the power of resisting cold, 193. The evolution of heat supposed to depend on the integrity of a particular part of the brain, 198. 3. On Injuries of the Extremities requiring the Operations of Am- putation. Amputation formerly a very doubtful remedy, 199. Modern im- provements have made its success more certain, 199. Opinions in favour of immediate operation, of Wiseman, 200. Of Le Dran and Ranby, 201. Of Bilguer as opposed to these, 202. Of the French academy of surgery. M. Faure and M. Le Comte against it, 205. M. Boucher in support, 206. M. Vandergracht, 207. Of Schmucker as opposed to Bilguer, 207. Mr. Alanson’s improvements, 208. Opinions of Baron Percy, including those of La Martiniere, Moraud, Louis, Andouill¢é, Sabatier, and Dessault, 209. Of Mr. Hunter in detail, 210. Of M. Lombard, 212. . Of Mr. John Bell, 213. Of Ba- ron Larrey, 213. Practice of British army surgeons during the American revolutionary war, 214. In Holland and in Egypt, 214. Of the navy and army surgeons previously to 1815, 215. The ope-. ration sometimes performed at an improper period, 216. Cases at Ciudad Rodrigo and Salamanca, 216. Cases of an officer, and of two privates of the 27th regiment at Toulouse, operated upon by Staff-surgeon Lindsey, 218. Amputation after forty-eight hours have elapsed, done under different circumstances than at an earlier period, 220. Opinions of advocates for delaying amputation, 22]. Not arising from practice, 222. Case of Colonel Turner, 223. Mr. Hunter on this point, 224. Opinions in opposition, 225. State- ment of operations from June to December 1813, in the Peninsula, 227. Remarkable difference, 229. Mr. Gunning, Surgeon-in-chief, on the wounded at Orthez, 229. Mr. Mann on American surgery, 229. Division of amputation into primary and secondary, 230. Of Primary Amputation. The operation to be done as-soon as posible, 231. - Patient’s state not being objectionable, 231. Soldiers anxious to undergo the ope- tation, and to be supported after it, 232. Case of Sir James Douglas
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