Gunshot injuries; how they are inflicted, their complications and treatment.

  • La Garde, Louis A. (Louis Anatole), 1849-1920.
Date:
1914
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Credit: Gunshot injuries; how they are inflicted, their complications and treatment. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    Powder-marks or tattoo, a medico- legal question, 369 Projectiles, 14 characteristic lesions caused by, 33 classification of, 14 density of, 29 form of, 29 from air-guns and Flobert rifles, 16 from Gatling and automatic machine guns, 22 from hand-weapons, 14 from shotguns, 15 a Medico-Legal question, 372 from toy-pistols, 16 motions of, 23 of the artillery-arms, 16 the motion of rotation of, 26 translation of, 23 Projectile, was it jacketed or not, a medico-legal question, 380 Probe, Nelaton, 150 Propellant, compressed atmospheric air as, 14 R Rectum, wounds of, 261 Revolvers and pistols, 10 Reyher, Carl, on antiseptics in military surgery, 128 Richardson, on the average mortality from abdominal wounds in Charity Hospital, New Orle- ans, La., before the days of laparotomy, 250 Rifles, automatic, 32 breech-loading, 6 Flobert, 11 Krag-Jorgensen, 6 Lee-Speed and Lebel, 6 magazine breech-loaders with reduced caliber, 6 maynard, 6 military, 3-6 evolution of, 4 Minie's, principal featm-es of, 5 of different combatant armies, in recent wars, 51 Rifles, Sharp, 6 Spencer, 6 Springfield, 6 target, 11 United States, caliber .30 model 1903, 30 ammunition of 1906, for, 30 Roosevelt, Theodore, Col., on the effects of pointed bullet in African Game Trails, 58 Rotation of bullets, 26 S Seaman, Dr. Louis, Livingston, on traumatic aneurysm in Man- churian campaign, 280 Scrotum, wounds of, 273 Senn, Dr. Nicholas, hydrogen gas test in intestinal wounds, 241 field dressing, 141 Septic bullets and septic powders, 128 Shands, Dr. H. R., statistics of operated and non-operated cases of abdominal wounds in Charity Hospital, New Orleans, La., 251 Shell, for cannon, 16 common, wounds by, 94 Pom-Pom, 16 wounds by, 101 wdth case shot, canister, or shrap- nel, wounds by, 101 Shock, local and constitutional as symp- toms of g. s. wounds, 114 treatment of, 117 Shotgun, 10 Shotguns, wounds by, a medico-legal question, 372 Shoulder-joint, wounds of, 298 Shrapnel, 16 Siegel, Dr. Ernest, death rate in abdominal wounds subjected to operation, 244 Sigmoid flexure, wounds of, 261 Skull, contusion of, 157 fracture of inner table alone, 158 outer table alone, 157