Volume 1

A treatise on the blood, inflammation, and gun-shot wounds / by the late John Hunter.

  • Hunter, John, 1728-1793.
Date:
1812
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Credit: A treatise on the blood, inflammation, and gun-shot wounds / by the late John Hunter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTION. The following pages, treating of inflammation, were first arranged in the year 1762, at Bellisle, after the complete reduction of that place. They were compiled from notes, and memoran- dums of observations, made in the course of twelve years residence in London. During this space, my time was occupied partly in my edu- cation under the late Dr. Hunter, and partly in assisting him. In the winter season I was principally employed in the dissecting-room, where I taught the practical part of anatomy; in the summer I attended the hospitals. The truth of these observations was, during the siege of Bellisle, in some degree put to the test, by comparing them with many cases of wounds, which were attended with inflamma- tion. From the frequency of gun-shot wounds at that place, I was naturally led to arrange my B