Surgical Experiences In South Africa 1899 1900 Being Mainly A C

The only other object of this Preface is to express my thanks to the many who have aided me in the task of amplifying the observations on which the articles are founded, and I t...

Type wounds--Nature of external apertures--Direct course of wound track--Multiple wounds--Small bore and sharp localisation of tracks--Clinical course--Mode of healing--Suppurat...

Nature of lesions; contusion, laceration, perforation--Results of injuries--Primary hæmorrhage--Recurrent hæmorrhage--Secondary hæmorrhage--Treatment of hæmorrhage--Traumatic an...

Nature of wounds--Explosive wounds--Types of fracture of shafts of long bones--Stellate, wedge, notch, oblique, transverse, perforating--Fractures by old types of bullet--Lesion...

Anatomical lesions--Scalp wounds--Fracture of the skull without evidence of gross lesion of the brain--Fractures with concurrent brain injury--Classification--General injuries--...

Fractures in their relation to nerve injury--Transverse processes--Spinous processes--Centra--Signs of fracture of the vertebra--Injuries to the spinal cord--Effects of high vel...

Anatomical lesions--Concussion--Contusion--Division or laceration--Secondary implication of the nerve--Symptoms of nerve injury--Traumatic neuritis--Scar implication--Ascending...

Non-penetrating wounds of the chest wall--Penetrating wounds, special characters of entrance and exit apertures--Fracture of the ribs, symptoms, treatment--Wounds of the diaphra...

Introductory remarks--Wounds of the abdominal wall--Penetration of the intestinal area without definite evidence of visceral injury--Wounds of explosive character--Anatomical ch...

The following pages are intended to give an account of personal experience of the gunshot wounds observed during the South African campaign in 1899 and 1900. For this reason few...

Before proceeding to the actual description of the wounds inflicted by modern military rifles, it is necessary to prefix a few remarks on the mechanism and mode of production of...

1. _Nature of the external apertures._--The apertures of entry and exit in uncomplicated cases are very insignificant, but the size naturally varies slightly with that of the sp...

The small calibre of the modern bullet, and its tendency to take a direct course, naturally favour the occurrence of more or less uncomplicated wounds of the large vascular trun...

Injuries to the bones of the limbs formed a very large proportion of the accidents we were called upon to treat, and afforded as much interest as any class, since they possessed...

Until recent times gunshot injuries of the joints formed a class entailing the gravest anxiety to the surgeon, both in regard to the selection of primary measures of treatment a...

Injuries to the head formed one of the most fruitful sources of death, both upon the battlefield and in the Field hospitals. It has been suggested that the mere fact of wounds o...

_Wounds of the malar bone_ were not infrequent. The small amount of splintering was somewhat remarkable considering the density of structure of the bone. In this particular the...

_Wounds of the jaws. Upper jaw._--A large number of tracks crossing the antrum transversely, obliquely, or vertically were observed. In the first case the nasal cavity, in the o...

Every degree of local injury to the constituent vertebræ and the contents of the spinal canal was met with considerable frequency. Pure uncomplicated fractures of the bones were...

The occurrence of these injuries has undoubtedly increased in frequency with the employment of bullets of small calibre, and no other class of case more strikingly illustrates t...

In regard to Prognosis wounds of the chest furnished the most hopeful class of the whole series of trunk or visceral injuries. Cases of wound of the heart and great vessels affo...

Perhaps no chapter of military surgery was looked forward to with more eager interest than that dealing with wounds of the abdomen. In none was greater expectation indulged in w...

As already pointed out, these formed but a very small proportion of the injuries treated in the hospitals, and beyond this they possessed comparatively small surgical interest,...