Gunshot injuries, their history, characteristic features, complications, and general treatment : with statistics concerning them as they have been met with in warfare / by Sir T. Longmore.

Date:
1895
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Credit: Gunshot injuries, their history, characteristic features, complications, and general treatment : with statistics concerning them as they have been met with in warfare / by Sir T. Longmore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    CONTENTS SECTION I GUNSHOT INJURIES, AND THE MEANS BY WHICH THEY ARE PRODUCED CHAPTER I DEFINITION, NOMENCLATURE, AND GENERAL NATURE OF GUNSHOT INJURIES PAGE , PAGE Definition . 1 i General nature and distinguishing Nomenclature . . . . 3 J features 3 CHAPTER II AGENTS CONCERNED IN THE PRODUCTION OF GUNSHOT INJURIES Explosive compounds . 5 1 Dynamite 10 Gunpowder 6 Cordite 12 Fulminating powder . 7 Picric explosives .... 12 Smokeless explosives . 8 Compressed air .... 13 Gun-cotton 9 1 CHAPTER III ON THE FIRE-ARMS OR OTHER MACHINES, AND ON THE PROJECTILES, CONCERNED IN GUNSHOT INJURIES How far a knowledge of this General classification of pro- subject is needed by army jectiles 14 surgeons .... 13 Particular classification 15 CHAPTER IY ON LARGE GUNS AND THEIR PROJECTILES Guns and gunshot 16 Common spherical shell 21 Some modern gun projectiles 16 Hand-grenades .... 21 Grape-shot 18 Shrapnell shells .... 22 Oase-grape 20 Diaphragm shrapnell . 22