Wounds and their management / J.K. Watson.

  • Watson, J. K. (James Kenneth)
Date:
[1913?]
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Credit: Wounds and their management / J.K. Watson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    haemorrhage in these wounds is to be internal rather than external. It is in this class of injuries that infection of the wound is so danger- ous. Gunshot wounds obviously vary in their character according to the nature of the weapon used, the kind of projectile, its velocity and the distance from which it is fired; the shorter the range the greater is the amount of injury. Such wounds may simply involve the flesh or may cause extensive damage to bones, blood-vessels, nerves and viscera. In merely flesh wounds the bleeding is not usually severe. But there may be serious internal haemorrhage from the involvement of one of the large blood-vessels which may rapidly prove fatal unless the vessel can be controlled. The entrance wound is small and the exit wound slightly larger. Sometimes a hole may be drilled in a bone by a bullet, but more often there is splintering of the bone caus- ing the wound to be complicated by a commin-
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