A treatise upon penetrating wounds of the chest / by Patrick Fraser.

  • Fraser, Patrick.
Date:
1859
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Credit: A treatise upon penetrating wounds of the chest / by Patrick Fraser. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    TABLE I* GUNSHOT WOUNDS OF THE CHEST. Return, showing the Number and Results of the Gases treated from 1st April, 1855, to the end of the War. NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND PRIVATES ONLY. <D as a o H Died. •6 CD 3 o H Is 60 .a oo s T3 CD Sh <£ 00 s > o „; 33 a ° s >» o3 <x> o G J2 to 05 ° 09 S_ 03 o la u a CD CD 1. Simple flesh contusions j Slight and wounds \ Severe 2. With injury of bone or cartilage,] without known lesion of contents I and not opening the cavity.... J 3. With lesion of contents, hut not 1 opening the cavity j 4. Penetrating the cavity, and mis-) sile lodged, or apparently lodged j 5. Perforating or appa-| renily perforating, ^A, the cavity J ^eeP'> Total 143 112 24 16 33 9 83 420 1 9 28 2 68 1 1 3 1 3 1 3 1 9 31 3 71 118 135 77 11 3 226 + 8 32 12 4 2 6 12 76 Return, showing the Number and Results of the Gases treated during the entire War. COMMISSIONED OFFICERS ONLY. 1. Simple flesh contusion and wounds j ~ '^ 2. With injury of bone or cartilage, without known lesion of the contents, and not opening the cavity 3. With lesion of the contents, but not opening the cavity 4. Penetrating the cavity, and missile lodged, or apparently lodged 5. Perforating, or apparently perfor- (Superficially ating, the cavity j Deeply .... Total 54 00 C 12+ 25 * The Tables date from the 1st of April, 1855, to the end of the War; peace was pro- claimed on the 30th of March, 1856. Previously to the 1st of April, 1855, no reliable data exist. The Tables, therefore, include a period of 364 days. In Table No.l, Sections Nos. 3, 4, and 5, are the items to be dealt with strictly in this Treatise. + In estimating the mortality, it must be remembered that the number, as given in Table No. I, must be taken with the qualification that out of the number discharged for duty, viz., 238, the number of 71 were shortly discharged the service, a certain proof of the extensive damage done, and, probably, a prelude to death from the effects of the original wound.