On gun-shot wounds of the extremities, requiring the different operations of amputation, with their after-treatment: establishing the advantages of amputation on the field of battle. To the delay usually recommended, &c. &c &c., with four explanatory plates / By G. J. Guthrie.

  • Guthrie, G. J. (George James), 1785-1856.
Date:
1815
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Credit: On gun-shot wounds of the extremities, requiring the different operations of amputation, with their after-treatment: establishing the advantages of amputation on the field of battle. To the delay usually recommended, &c. &c &c., with four explanatory plates / By G. J. Guthrie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ON PRIMARY AMPUTATION. Proper Period depending on the different Constitutions of Indi- viduals, 48.—Soldiers anxious to undergo the Operation, ibid. —Case in explanation, ibid.—To be supported after the Operation, 50.—When there is much pain, to be done imme- diately, 51.—Absence of Pain, &e. a sign of great Danger, 52. —The bad Consequences described by Authors do not occur, ibid.—After-Treatment, 53.—Accidents after Primary Ope- rations uncommon, ibid.—Proportion of Deaths at Toulouse, 54.—Amputations performed after the first twenty-four hours extremely dangerous, 55.—Inflammation great, 55.—Affected by Diseases endemic in the Country, 56.—Treatment, 57.— At a late period, the Operation to be performed only on ac- count of the state of Health, 58.—Bad state of part of the French wounded after the Battle of Salamanca, 59.—Wounds of the large Blood-vessels ending in Gangrene, 60.—Which extends up to the' wounded part, 61.—Errors usually com- mitted, ibid.—The line of separation not be awaited, ibid. Constitution little affected, 62.—Circulation in the Upper Extremity always carried on, ibid.—Not always in the Lower, ibid.—Never if the Artery and Vein are both divided, ibid. Nature of the Gangrene pointed out, 43.—M. Larrey's opi- nion, ibid.—Good in some instances, 64.—Exceptions, ibid. —A Case sketched from reality, 66.—Cases of success at Salamanca, 67. ON SECONDARY AMPUTATION. To be performed after the third Week, 68.—Attended with considerable Danger, ibid.— In Civil Life always done in sound parts, ibid.—In Military Surgery the reverse, 69.—State of the Limb, ibid.—State of Hospitals after a great Battle, 70. Examples after the Battles of Vittoria and the Pyrenees, ibid. —Endemic Diseases and Contagious Fever affecting the wound- ed as at Burgos, 71.—A Joint lost in consequence of the Delay, 72.—Haemorrhage, sometimes a cause of secondary Amputation at an unfavourable moment, 72.—Determination to particular