A treatise on gun-shot wounds, on inflammation, erysipelas, and mortification, on injuries of nerves, and on wounds of the extremities requiring the different operations of amputation : in which the various methods of performing these operations are shown, together with their after-treatment ; and containing an account of the author's successful case of amputation at the hip-joint ... / by G.J. Guthrie.

Date:
1827
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on gun-shot wounds, on inflammation, erysipelas, and mortification, on injuries of nerves, and on wounds of the extremities requiring the different operations of amputation : in which the various methods of performing these operations are shown, together with their after-treatment ; and containing an account of the author's successful case of amputation at the hip-joint ... / by G.J. Guthrie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    principles than heretofore. These and many other minor points I do not think it necessary to notice. A careful examination of the books which existed at the com- mencement of the Peninsular war, and a comparison of them with the observations there made on the same sub- ject, will show in what part the alterations and improve- ments have taken place ; whilst the work, from its con- tinual reference to the different periods of the war, demonstrates the fact of the particular time at which each of them was established, if it does not mark that at which they originated. 2, Berkeley Street, Berkeley Square, June 18, I827.