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  • Wiseman "chirurgical treatises", 1686: gunshot wounds
  • Wiseman "chirurgical treatises", 1686: gunshot wounds
  • Gunshot wounds of Edson D. Bemis.
  • Treatment of wounds and splint for leg fractured by gunshot
  • Sir Victor Horsley, 'Remarks on gunshot wounds of the head'.
  • A compleat discourse of wounds : both in general and in particular: whereunto are added the severall fractures of the skull, with their variety of figures. As also a treatise of gunshot-wounds in general / collected and reduced into a new method by John Brown.
  • A compleat discourse of wounds : both in general and in particular: whereunto are added the severall fractures of the skull, with their variety of figures. As also a treatise of gunshot-wounds in general / collected and reduced into a new method by John Brown.
  • A compleat discourse of wounds : both in general and in particular: whereunto are added the severall fractures of the skull, with their variety of figures. As also a treatise of gunshot-wounds in general / collected and reduced into a new method by John Brown.
  • A compleat discourse of wounds : both in general and in particular: whereunto are added the severall fractures of the skull, with their variety of figures. As also a treatise of gunshot-wounds in general / collected and reduced into a new method by John Brown.
  • A compleat discourse of wounds : both in general and in particular: whereunto are added the severall fractures of the skull, with their variety of figures. As also a treatise of gunshot-wounds in general / collected and reduced into a new method by John Brown.
  • A compleat discourse of wounds : both in general and in particular: whereunto are added the severall fractures of the skull, with their variety of figures. As also a treatise of gunshot-wounds in general / collected and reduced into a new method by John Brown.
  • Man with gunshot wound to the nose
  • B.'s Supplement or enlargement to Mr. Nich. Culpeppers English physitian. Containing a description of the form, names, place, time, coelestial government, and virtues, of all such medicinal plants as grow in England, and are omitted in his book ... To which is annexed, a new tract for the cure of wounds made by gunshot or otherways, and remedies for ... seamen troubled with the scurvy / [Joseph Blagrave].
  • The compleat surgeon, or, The whole art of surgery explain'd in a most familiar method : containing the principles of that art; and, an exact account of tumours, ulcers, and wounds, simple and complicated, with those by gunshot: As also of venereal diseases, the scurvy, fractures, and luxations: With all sorts of chirurgical operations; the bandages and dressings, which are illustrated in forty copper plates; the method of dissecting the brain, by M. Duncan; several reflections and new machines by M. Arnaud. Likewise, a chirurgical dispensatory; shewing the manner of preparing all such medicines as are most necessary for a surgeon; and particularly the mercurial panacea / Written in French, by M. Le Clerc.
  • A prooved practise for all young chirurgians, concerning burnings with gunpowder, and woundes made with gunshot, sword, halbard, pyke ... Heereto is adjoyned a treatise of the French or Spanish pockes / written by John Almenar.
  • A prooved practise for all young chirurgians, concerning burnings with gunpowder, and woundes made with gunshot, sword, halbard, pyke ... Heereto is adjoyned a treatise of the French or Spanish pockes / written by John Almenar.
  • A prooved practise for all young chirurgians, concerning burnings with gunpowder, and woundes made with gunshot, sword, halbard, pyke ... Heereto is adjoyned a treatise of the French or Spanish pockes / written by John Almenar.
  • A prooved practise for all young chirurgians, concerning burnings with gunpowder, and woundes made with gunshot, sword, halbard, pyke ... Heereto is adjoyned a treatise of the French or Spanish pockes / written by John Almenar.
  • Origanum dictamnus L. Lamiaceae Dittany of Crete, Hop marjoram. Distribution: Crete. Culpeper (1650) writes: ‘... hastens travail [labour] in women, provokes the Terms [menstruation] . See the Leaves.’ Under 'Leaves' he writes: ‘Dictamny, or Dittany of Creet, ... brings away dead children, hastens womens travail, brings away the afterbirth, the very smell of it drives away venomous beasts, so deadly an enemy is it to poison, it’s an admirable remedy against wounds and Gunshot, wounds made with poisoned weapons, draws out splinters, broken bones etc. They say the goats and deers in Creet, being wounded with arrows, eat this herb, which makes the arrows fall out of themselves.' Dioscorides’ Materia Medica (c. 100 AD, trans. Beck, 2005), Pliny the Elder’s Natural History and Theophrastus’s Enquiry into Plants all have this information, as does Vergil’s Aeneid where he recounts how Venus produced it when her son, Aeneas, had received a deadly wound from an arrow, which fell out on its own when the wound was washed with it (Jashemski, 1999). Dioscorides attributes the same property to ‘Tragium’ or ‘Tragion’ which is probably Hypericum hircinum (a St. John’s Wort): ‘Tragium grows in Crete only ... the leaves and the seed and the tear, being laid on with wine doe draw out arrow heads and splinteres and all things fastened within ... They say also that ye wild goats having been shot, and then feeding upon this herb doe cast out ye arrows.’ . It has hairy leaves, in common with many 'vulnaries', and its alleged ability to heal probably has its origin in the ability of platelets to coagulate more easily on the hairs (in the same way that cotton wool is applied to a shaving cut to hasten clotting). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • A prooved practise for all young chirurgians, concerning burnings with gunpowder, and woundes made with gunshot, sword, halbard, pyke, launce, or such other / ... Heereto is adjoyned a treatise of the French or Spanish pockes, written by John Almenar ... Also, a commodious collection of aphorismes both English and Latin, taken out of an old written coppy. Newly corrected and augmented.
  • A wounded hand, having been torn apart between index and second finger by a gunshot: viewed front and back.
  • The surgeons mate or military and domestique surgery. Discovering ... ye method and order of ye surgeons chest, ye uses of the instruments, the vertues and operations of ye medicines, with ye exact cures of wounds made by gunshott, and otherwise ... with a treatise of ye cure of ye plague / [John Woodall].
  • The surgeons mate or military and domestique surgery. Discovering ... ye method and order of ye surgeons chest, ye uses of the instruments, the vertues and operations of ye medicines, with ye exact cures of wounds made by gunshott, and otherwise ... with a treatise of ye cure of ye plague / [John Woodall].
  • The surgeons mate or military and domestique surgery. Discovering ... ye method and order of ye surgeons chest, ye uses of the instruments, the vertues and operations of ye medicines, with ye exact cures of wounds made by gunshott, and otherwise ... with a treatise of ye cure of ye plague / [John Woodall].
  • The surgeons mate or military and domestique surgery. Discovering ... ye method and order of ye surgeons chest, ye uses of the instruments, the vertues and operations of ye medicines, with ye exact cures of wounds made by gunshott, and otherwise ... with a treatise of ye cure of ye plague / [John Woodall].
  • The surgeons mate or military and domestique surgery. Discovering ... ye method and order of ye surgeons chest, ye uses of the instruments, the vertues and operations of ye medicines, with ye exact cures of wounds made by gunshott, and otherwise ... with a treatise of ye cure of ye plague / [John Woodall].
  • The surgeons mate or military and domestique surgery. Discovering ... ye method and order of ye surgeons chest, ye uses of the instruments, the vertues and operations of ye medicines, with ye exact cures of wounds made by gunshott, and otherwise ... with a treatise of ye cure of ye plague / [John Woodall].
  • The surgeons mate or military and domestique surgery. Discovering ... ye method and order of ye surgeons chest, ye uses of the instruments, the vertues and operations of ye medicines, with ye exact cures of wounds made by gunshott, and otherwise ... with a treatise of ye cure of ye plague / [John Woodall].
  • The surgeons mate or military and domestique surgery. Discovering ... ye method and order of ye surgeons chest, ye uses of the instruments, the vertues and operations of ye medicines, with ye exact cures of wounds made by gunshott, and otherwise ... with a treatise of ye cure of ye plague / [John Woodall].
  • The surgeons mate or military and domestique surgery. Discovering ... ye method and order of ye surgeons chest, ye uses of the instruments, the vertues and operations of ye medicines, with ye exact cures of wounds made by gunshott, and otherwise ... with a treatise of ye cure of ye plague / [John Woodall].