Category: History - Warfare
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McClellan’s Armies of Europe. 8vo. $3.50 McClellan’s United States Cavalry. 12mo. 1.50 McClellan’s Manual of Bayonet Exercises. 12mo. 1.25 McClellan’s European Cavalry. 12mo. 1....
2. Part 2Not only the form of outline, but the weight, and in some instances the matter of which the missile is composed, influence the nature of gunshot wounds. In the largest kinds of...
3. Part 3Grape–shot, and even balls of larger size from field guns, occasionally lodge. The large, gaping wounds inflicted by such missiles usually render the detection of their lodgment...
4. Part 4=Diagnosis.=—The external distinguishing signs of a penetrating gunshot wound are generally manifest enough, but exact diagnosis of the nature and extent of the wound is not alw...
5. Part 5Gunshot wounds vary in gravity from the simplest laceration of cuticle to the instantaneous destruction of life. Death may take place primarily from direct causes already allude...
6. Part 6The constitutional treatment in an ordinary gunshot wound, uncomplicated with injury to bone or structures of first importance, should be very simple. The avoidance of all irreg...
7. Part 7=Treatment.=—The treatment of the various kinds of fractures from gunshot, and their complications, may be considered together. Formerly, a gunshot wound of the head was suppose...
8. Part 8When the chest has been opened by a projectile, the following signs may be expected in addition to the external physical evidences of the injury: a certain amount of constitutio...
9. Part 9When, in addition to the cavity being opened, viscera are penetrated, and death does not directly ensue from rupture of some of the larger arteries, the shock is not only very s...
10. Part 10In the latter part of the Crimean campaign, when the health of the troops and means of treatment were favorable, it was often remarkable what extensive injuries of the upper ext...
11. Part 11It is not necessary to refer at much length to the question which was formerly disputed upon—the advantages of _primary_ as compared with _secondary_ amputation in gunshot wound...
12. Part 12It must frequently happen in military practice that several operations have to be performed in rapid succession on the same person, from necessity of a speedy removal of the wou...