War Surgery in Spain *(i) Treatment of War Wounds and Fractures. J. Trueta. Hamish Hamilton & Co.(ii) "War Surgery in Spain." Tudor Hart. British Medical Journal, 1939, i., p. 1099.
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a raid. It is curious that experience in one war appears to be almost valueless in the next. Treatment of wounds of the chest and of the abdomen was quite different in the South African War and in the Great War. The methods that proved most valuable in Madrid and Barcelona during the recent fighting in Spain would have been considered revolutionary in 1917 or 1918. Air-raid casualties fall into three groups. Machine-gun bullet wounds are relatively innocuous, unless the bullet is retained, or a bone is shattered. Small air bombs throw out small splinters of high velocity; they produce insignificant and often painless skin wounds, but the damage to muscles
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