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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    ed on the field of battle, and at a subsequent period in general hospitals, in the army in the Peninsula, which were collected by Sir James M'Grigor for the purposefully bear out the opinions above related* RETURN of the capital operations performed at the hospital stations, between the 21 stof June and the 24th December, 1813, of the army under the command of his Excellency Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington; being a period of six months, from the advance of the British army from Por- tugal, until its establishment in winter quarters in front of Bayonne. Amputation of the*) upper extremities, j Lower extremities. Total number of 1 operations. i Number ope- rated upon. Of which died. Discharged, cured. ! Under cure. 296 255 116 149 105 65 75 41 551 265 170 116 The operations at the shoulder joint not included.,