CASES OF GUNSHOT WOUNDS OF BLOOD VESSELS FROM MESOPOTAMIA

Cases of Gunshot Wounds Treated in Divisional Field Hospital, Kabul

2.?Pte. H. Bullet entered right arm posterior to deltoid insertion and emerged after a course of two inches. A simple flesh wound. Patient recovered rapidly. B. 1.?Pte. W. Bullet entered immediately to left of 10th dorsal spine, and was extracted at the lower border of ri?ht axilla just below seventh rib. In this case the wound was followed by haemoptysis, and other symptoms of wound of the lun...

Gunshot Wounds

Firearm injuries are regarded as a special form of blunt trauma. The damage to the organism is caused by the impact of a single projectile (or a multitude of pellets) propelled from a barrel by high-pressure combustion gases and striking the body at a high velocity. Gunshot wounds, in a broader sense, are also lesions caused by blank-cartridge weapons as well as injuries due to livestock stunne...

On Gunshot Injuries to the Blood Vessels

The) experiences of the Great War have added vastly to our surgical knowledge and this applies especially to injuries of blood vessels. The author of " Gunshot Injuries to the Blood Vessels " makes no attempt to deal with the literature of the subject, but he gives us a firsthand account of the surgery of vascular injuries, on which he is an admitted authority. The subject is first dealt with g...

Gunshot Wounds

Gunshot Wounds of Peripheral Nerves

Injuries of peripheral nerves occur in wounds due to Projectiles of high velocity with great frequency, and their successful treatment is of the highest importance in the prevention of permanent disabilities of the most serious kind.. It may be said at once that we are not yet in a position to make positive statements as to what the ultimate results of nerve injuries and the operations undertak...