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.

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1827
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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.

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    ill proof, 23'2. When it ought to be done forthwith, or without any delay, 233. Absence of pain a sign of great danger, 233. The bad consequences described by authors do not occur, 234. Accidents after primary amputation uncommon, 234. State of parts when am- putation is delayed too long, 236. Treatment under these circum- stances, 237. Bad state of the French wounded after the battle of Salamanca, 238. Reply to the observations of Mr. Hutchison, Dr. Quarrier, and Dr. Dewar, with cases, 239, 252. Conclusions on the subject of immediate amputation, 250. 0/ Secondary Amputation. To be performed after the third week, 252. Attended with con- siderable danger, 253. State of hospitals after a great battle, 254. Examples after the battles of Vittoria and the Pyrenees, 254. En- demic diseases and contagious fever affecting the wounded in Belgium and at Burgos, 255. A joint sometimes lost in consequence of delay, 255. Hajmorrhage sometimes a cause of secondary ampu- tation at an unfavourable moment, 255. On inflammation attacking in- ternal parts in an insidious manner, as a consequence of secondary amputation, 256. Generally attacks the lungs, and mostly proves fatal, 257. Cases in explanation by Dr. Irwin, Mr. Rose, Mr. Bout- flower, 258. Abscess in the Liver, by M. Larrey, 259. Case by Dr. Chermside of abscess in the thyroid gland, 260. Case of Daniel Lynch after the battle of Toulouse, 261. This peculiar kind of attack not noticed by previous authors, 262. Author’s opinion sup- ported, 263. The claims of Mr. C. Bell refuted, 265. Case of John Hodges, of atteick on the chest, 266. Of Michael Abernethy, of metastasis of matter, 268. Of John Lomax, attack on the chest, 271. Case by Dr. Higgins, Deputy Inspector of Hospitals, 272. Difference of type of fever, in Brussels and Antwerp, 272. Case of abscess in the liver, by Staflf-surgeon Hughes, from Dr. Henuen, 273. On the Operation of Amputation. A great difference in the manner of performing primary and secondary operations, and in the manner of treatment, 273. Integuments not to be dissected back except in the leg, 274. And in some secondary operations, 275. Appearance of the stump when the bone is sawn through, 276. Mode of cutting the muscles, 276. Amputation to be perftirmed higher up, if there be a sinus extending from the wound, 276. Mode of sawing the bone, 277. The periosteum not to be scraped off, 277- The bone to be divided perpendicularly, to prevent splintering, 278. Securing of arteries, 279. Tourniquet to