Gunshot injuries / by Sir Thomas Longmore.

  • Thomas Longmore
Date:
1877
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Credit: Gunshot injuries / by Sir Thomas Longmore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ixr. VI. CHAPTER V. HOSPITAL GANGRENE AFTER GUNSHOT WOUNDS. iiriner types in military hospitals ; Bi-itisli hospitals diiriug Gri- meau War . . . • )u hoard transports and elsewhere 11 the French hospitals daring Crimean War . . • • 11 India dui-ing Sepoy Mutiny War . . • .- . • leuneu's description of this dis- ease ■]arly symptoms . _ . nitfirie's account of it Jescription of milder forms . PAGE 215 216 217 218 218 219 221 222 222 Varieties of hospital gangrene . Distinctive signs of hospital and simple gangrene Various origins attrihuted to hos- pital gangrene . . _ . Indications of a local origin . _ Arguments for a constitutional origin Inspector-General Ohenu's views . Development of hospital gangrene Conclusions regarding it in military practice . . • PAGE 223 223 224 225 226 227 227 220 CHAPTER VI. PYEMIA AFTER GUNSHOT WOUNDS. Vot recognised during Peninsular or Waterloo campaigns . . 230 [lemote ahscesses after woimds^ . 230 riews of army surgeons regarding them . . . _ . . 231 Frequency of pysemia in recent retm-ns . . • • • 2-31 Mortality from it during the siege of Paris . . . _ • • 232 Wounds specially liahle to it . 232 Its symptoms .... 233 Ke-separatiou of united gunshot fractures . . .. . • 234 Modes of death in pyaemia . . 235 Nature of the disease . . . 235 Its association with wounds of hones . . • . • . .• Keasons for its prevalence in mili- tary hospitals . . . • . .• Contusions regarding it in mili- tary practice .... 239 CHAPTER VII. TETANUS AFTER GUNSHOT WOUNDS. Tetanic spasms .... Its various forms.... Tetanus more frequent in former wars ..... Statistics regarding it . . . Tetanus in two adjoining regiments in the Crimea .... riases in the 19th Regiment . \11 states of gmishot wounds liable to it After gunshot wounds of nerves . Lodged pieces of cloth an exciting cause . . . • _ . Nerve lesions not a sufficient cause ..... Proportion in which it occurs in the tropios 240 240 240 241 243 243 245 245 245 246 247 Sudden alterations of temperature Local disturbance of wounds Professor Maclean's experience in China Resume of causes in army hos- pitals . • • • Oom-se folloAved by it after gun- shot wounds . . • • Period of its occurrence May occur after a wovmd js healed General immunity from it in the Crimea . • _ • Cause of this immunity Acute and chronic tetanus . Patliology of traumatic tetanus . 247 248 248 249 249 250 251 251 251 252 253
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