A treatise on gun-shot wounds : which obtained the premium given by the Royal College of Surgeons in London for the year 1803. / by Thomas Chevalier.

  • Thomas Chevalier
Date:
1804
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Credit: A treatise on gun-shot wounds : which obtained the premium given by the Royal College of Surgeons in London for the year 1803. / by Thomas Chevalier. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    and every part of it was in health, will be too much when its velocity is increased by inflammation, and some parts are rendered by an injury less able to bear its impulse than they were before. More especially will this impulse become too much for very vas- cular parts, and for parts of weak powers and feeble vessels ; and therefore steps must ]je taken to moderate it, of which one of the most important, is diminishing the quantity of blood, if it have not been already suf- ' ficiently diminished by the haemorrhage from the wound itself. Such a diminution of the contents of the blood-vessels, moreover, naturally tends to weaken the action of the heart and arteries in the most powerful manner, by subtract- ing from them a certain portion of the natu- ral stimulus by which their muscular fibres are excited to action ; and which cannot, when taken away, be immediately renewed. Therefore whenever the action of these ves- sels is really, and bond Jide, too strong, bleeding is the most powerful remedy that
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