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.

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    CHAPTER IY HOSPITAL GANGRENE AFTER GUNSHOT WOUNDS PAGE General remarks .... 285 Hospital gangrene and special micro-organisms . . . 285 Former types in military hospitals 286 In British hospitals during Cri- mean war 287 On board transports and elsewhere 288 In the French Crimean hospitals 288 In India during Sepoy Mutiny war 289 Hennen’s description of this dis- ease 290 Early symptoms . . . .291 Guthrie’s account of it . . 292 PAGE Description of milder forms . 293 Varieties of hospital gangrene . 293 Distinctive signs of hospital and simple gangrene . . .294 Various origins attributed to hos- pital gangrene . . . 294 Indications of a local origin . 294 Arguments for a specific conta- gious origin .... 295 Blackadder’s views . . . 296 Its occurrence in U. S. civil war 296 Causes to which attributed . . 296 Development of hospital gangrene 297 Influence of climate and locality 297 CHAPTER Y PYjEMIA AFTER GUNSHOT WOUNDS General remarks . . 298 Not recognised in Peninsular campaigns .... 299 Remote abscesses after wounds . 299 Influence of pyogenic microbes . 299 Views of former army surgeons . 299 Pyaemia in recent army returns . 300 Mortality from it during the siege of Paris 300 Wounds specially liable to it .301 Its symptoms . . . .301 Re-separation of united gunshot fractures . . . . .302 Modes of death in pyaemia . . 304 Nature of the disease . . . 304 Its association with wounds of bones 305 Reasons for its prevalence in mili- tary hospitals .... 306 Individual susceptibility . . 306 Conclusions regarding it in mili- tary practice .... 307 CHAPTER YI TETANUS AFTER GUNSHOT WOUNDS General remarks .... 308 Tetanic spasms . . . . 309 Its various forms .... 309 Tetanus more frequent in former wars 309 Statistics regarding it . . 309 In the Crimean war . . . 310 Tetanus in Italian war of 1859 . 311 In the United States civil war . 311 In the Indian Mutiny war . .312 No case in the New Zealand war 312 Tetanus in two adjoining regi- ments in the Crimea . .312 Cases in the 19th Regiment . 312 All states of gunshot wounds liable to it . . . .314 After gunshot wounds of nerves . 314 Lodged pieces of cloth an ex- citing cause .... 314 Nerve lesions and tetanus . . 315 Proportion in which it occurs in the tropics . . . .315 Sudden alterations of temperature 316 Local disturbance of wounds . 317 Professor Maclean’s experience in China 317 Specific micro - organisms as a cause 317 Resume of causes in army hos- pitals 318 Course followed by it after gun- shot wounds .... 319