Observations on wounds, and their complications by erysipelas, gangrene and tetanus : and on the principal diseases and injuries of the head, ear and eye / by the Baron D.J. Larrey ; tr. from the French by E.F. Rivinus.

  • Larrey, D. J. (Dominique Jean), baron, 1766-1842.
Date:
1832
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Credit: Observations on wounds, and their complications by erysipelas, gangrene and tetanus : and on the principal diseases and injuries of the head, ear and eye / by the Baron D.J. Larrey ; tr. from the French by E.F. Rivinus. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    CONTENTS. A General View of Wounds^ especially of Gun-Shot Wounds, 1 Incised wounds, . , . . .3 Sutures, . . . . . .4 Punctured wounds, . . . . .7 Lacerated wounds, . . . . .8 Wounds inflicted by rabid animals—Hydrophobia, . 9 Poisoned wounds, . . . . . 16 Gun-shot wounds, . . . . .20 Complications of wounds—Ecchymosis, . , 5 Traumatic fever, . . . , .26 Injuries of nerves, . . . . .27 Foreign bodies, . . . . .28 Treatment of gun-shot wounds, . . .35 Traumatic erysipelas, . . , . « 39 Abscesses, or purulent sinuses, subsequent to wounds, 48 Hospital gangrene, . . . . .48 Gangrene, . . . . . .62 Tetanus, . . . . , .64 Cases of partial and general tetanus, . . .71 Cases of the effects of pressure from a ligature upon a nerve and of the influence of cold and moist air, . 72 Case of laceration of nerves, and of the utility of incisions, 74 Cases of compression and turgescence of nerves occasioned by their adhesion to the cicatrix of a wound, . 75 Cases of tetanus treated principally by internal remedies, 78 Cases of tetanus in which some peculiar phenomena had appeared, . . . . . . 82 Case of traumatic tetanus excited by the coolness of the nights, and aggravated by a moral affection, . 84 Cases of the advantages arising from the amputation of the injured limb in tetanus, ... 85