A treatise on gun-shot wounds : which obtained the premium given by the Royal College of Surgeons in London for the year 1803 / by Thomas Chevalier.

  • Chevalier, Thomas, 1767-1824.
Date:
1806
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on gun-shot wounds : which obtained the premium given by the Royal College of Surgeons in London for the year 1803 / by Thomas Chevalier. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A wound of this description must therefore necessarily produce more or less of contusion and laceration of the wounded parts; will often be accom¬ panied with haemorrhage; the fracture of a bone ; and, in many instances, with the lodgment of extraneous substances. Such a wound, moreover, admits of in¬ finite variety in its extent and direction, both which are regulated by fixed laws, although we cannot in many instances completely develop their operation. Prom this account of a Gun-shot wound, it must be evident, that in order fully to understand the nature of such wounds, it is necessary to understand the nature of wounds in general; thenature of contusion, laceration, haemorrhage, and fracture ; the operation of extra¬ neous substances on the living solid; and the laws by which the course and effect of bodies in motion are necessarily determined.