Wounds in war : their treatment and results / by D'Arcy Power.

  • Power, D'Arcy, Sir, 1855-1941.
Date:
1915
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Wounds in war : their treatment and results / by D'Arcy Power. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    products from his wound. Worn out by pain he is unable to sleep ; his appetite fails, he is lethargic or restless, he looks pinched : his complexion is sallow or even jaundiced, his tongue coated; the pulse rapid, increasing in rapidity from day to day ; the temperature oscillating from 990 to 103° F. with a still more rapid rise to a higher point associated with a rigor; occasionally a profuse sweat; the wound itself making no progress, perhaps not much discharge and what there is of an unhealthy character and swarming with pyogenic organisms. POWER D