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Credit: Gunshot injuries / by Sir Thomas Longmore. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Blood effused in lavp-e quantity . l^xtrcme contusion and slouglnng Transport of patients with severe contusions . . . • PAflR 357 357 357 Question of amputation _. _ . Open wounds by heavy projectiles General principles of treatment . CHAPTER V. DESCRIPHON OP INSTEUMENTS EMPLOYED FOR DETECTING AND EXTRACTIKi FOREIGN BODIES LODGED IN GUNSHOT WOUNDS. General Remarks 1. Exploring For meetins: special difficulties . 300 - - ■ ' . .362 . 363 Nelaton's probe Lecomte's stylet-pince mstruments. Electric indicators Endoscopic explorers (a) Extractors of the. forceps class. Old pattern bullet forceps . Evans' bvdlet forceps . Ferguson's spring bullet forceps . Weiss's cross-action forceps . Read's forceps . . . . ]Midwifery-liinge bullet forceps . Pratt's bidlet forceps . AVeiss's baU-aud-socket bullet for- ceps . . . . ■ French army bullet forceps . Tienian's buUot forceps Tbroe-bladed forceps . Ruspini's bullet extractor Goodchild's bullet extractor 2. Extracting instruments. (b) Extractors of the scoop class. Simple scoops Weisss bullet scoop Tufnel's bullet scoop . Ooxeter's bullet extractor Salt's folding bullet scoop 368 3G9 360 369 370 370 370 371 371 371 372 374 374 374 (c) Extractors of the screw class. Tire-fond screw .... (d) Extrnctors of the com])osite class. Tuson's bullet extractor Percy's tiibulcon Mouij's tire-balle Barclay's extracting instruments . 3G0 mi 375 375 375 37G 370 377 377 378 3791 3791 379) 380 CHAPTER VI. CONSTITOTIONAL TREATMENT OF SOLDIERS SUFFERING FROM GUNSHOT INJURIES. Need of early nutrient support . Exposure and enforced abstinence Circumstances which aggravate exhaustion .... Objects attained by giving support early ..... Often more important than imme- diate dressings .... Experience in the Ciimea and United States .... Successive constitutional condi- tions of wounded The stage of exhaustion Its constitutional treatment. Restoratives available on the field Issue of a spirit ration before battle Stage of reaction Question of depletory treatment . Objections to it . . . 381 381 382 383 383 383 383 384 384 384 384 385 385 385 Remedial agents reqiured in this stage .... Employment of moi-phia Its action and iises Hypodermic administration of it Chloral .... Tobacco .... Its value as a sedative . Other advantages of its use among soldiers .... Stage of suppuration and repair Constitutional treatment during this stage Dietary Antiscorbutics Hygienic requisites Means of mental diversion Removal to home . 3SI 3f) 3.4 3| 3i 3i' 3f](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21511421_0038.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
