Immediate Care of the Wounded
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چکیده
“Of all the surgical operations which are performed in man for the preservation of life by the physician, I have always judged to be the foremost that by which man is recalled from a quick death to a sudden repossession of life, a feat which raises to the level of Aesculapius; the operation is the opening of the asperia arteria [trachea], by which patients, from a condition of almost suffocating obstruction to respiration, suddenly regain consciousness, and draw again into their heart and lungs that vital ether the air, so necessary to life, and again resume an existence which had been all but annihilated.” 1
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