A treatise on gunshot wounds / by Thomas Chevalier.

  • Chevalier, Thomas, 1767-1824.
Date:
1806
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Credit: A treatise on gunshot wounds / by Thomas Chevalier. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    parts to shoot out healthy granulations. In such cases, stimulating them by the introduction of a seton; or scarifying their orifices a little freely, will make them first inflame anew, and then heal up: a process which nature sometimes spontaneously adopts. W here a wound is kept open by the exposure of bones which are to exfoliate, time, must of course be given for their separation, before they can be extracted. This will generally be accomplished in a period of from six weeks to as ma n months. And it will often be expedited by a free exposure of the exfoliation, and by keeping the inside of the sore clean, and dressing it with antiseptic medicines, or a solution of nitrous acid in water. But large exfoliations, though really hav- ing no remaining intercourse with the vessels of the living bone, are often re- tained in connection with it by the irre- gularity of their edges. Indeed they may be so for years : but if they remain long, the living bone will shoot out osseous