AMPUTATIONS IN WAR SURGERY.

Surgery in War

" Surgery in War" describes quite ably the most up-to-date surgical methods now being employed in France. What is true of gunshotwounds in France is by no means necessarily true of gunshot-wounds in Mesopotamia and Africa, and those who have served in these varying zones are ready to recognize this. In dry countries with comparatively clean soil the great majority of wounds reach hospital dry a...

Surgery in Vukovar War

I was born in Čamagajevci near Donji Miholjac in 1947. My parents moved to Vukovar immediately after my birth so I grew up there. I graduated from the Zagreb University School of Medicine in 1972. I completed my urology residency in the Zagreb Hospital Center in 1980 and obtained my master’s degree in biomedicine in 1989. I worked in Vukovar until 1986, when I got a position in the Osijek Gener...

War Surgery

Surgery in World War II. Thoracic Surgery

what he would say about a patient who had a purulent pleural effusion, and received the smug and tautological reply that the patient had an empyema. Perhaps our present-day student-physician would be more sophisticated, but he still tends to be casual in his attitude toward this highly significant manifestation of disease. A monograph on the subject is, indeed, needed. A somewhat unusual organi...

Surgery in World War II, Thoracic Surgery

To undertake a comprehensive review of such a massive subject as thoracic surgery during the Second World War is, indeed, a Herculean task. The sheer volume of material encompassed in such a study would tend to make the final result merely a list of statistical analyses so often encountered in the medical literature of today. Instead, the editors have accomplished a remarkable feat by interpret...