Surgical Experiences in South Africa

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Author

Makins, George Henry, 1853-

Title

Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre

Credits

Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

RD: Medicine: Surgery

Subject

Gunshot wounds

Category

Text

eBook-No.

21280

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21280

Release Date

May 3, 2007

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.SURGICAL EXPERIENCES — IN — SOUTH AFRICA
2. 2.GEORGE HENRY MAKINS, F.R.C.S.
3. 3.PREFACE
4. 4.CONTENTS — ILLUSTRATIONS — IN THE TEXT — TEMPERATURE CHARTS
5. 5.SOUTH AFRICA
6. 6.CHAPTER I — INTRODUCTORY — General Consideration of the Number of Men Killed and Wounded — TABLE I — TABLE II — Showing Proportion of Mortality amongst Men Hit , ( a ) on the Field , ( b ) during the First Forty-eight Hours — TABLE III [4] — FOOTNOTES:
7. 7.CHAPTER II — MODERN MILITARY RIFLES AND THEIR PROJECTILES IN RELATION TO INJURIES PRODUCED BY THEM ON THE HUMAN BODY — TABLE I — TABLE II.— Penetration — Metres per Second — FOOTNOTES:
8. 8.CHAPTER III — GENERAL CHARACTERS OF WOUNDS PRODUCED BY BULLETS OF SMALL CALIBRE — Type Wounds — Wounds of Irregular Type — FOOTNOTES:
9. 9.CHAPTER IV — INJURIES TO THE BLOOD VESSELS — Nature of the Lesions — Results of Injury to the Vessels — Treatment of Hæmorrhage — Traumatic Aneurisms — Effects of Aneurismal Varix or Varicose Aneurism on the Circulation — Aneurismal Varices — FOOTNOTES:
10. 10.CHAPTER V — INJURIES TO THE BONES OF THE LIMBS — Fractures of the Shafts of the Long Bones — Lesions of the Short and Flat Bones — Special Fractures — FOOTNOTES:
11. 11.CHAPTER VI — INJURIES TO THE JOINTS — Wounds of the Joints
12. 12.CHAPTER VII — INJURIES TO THE HEAD AND NECK — Anatomical Lesions — Wounds of the Head not Involving the Brain — Wounds of the Neck
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII — INJURIES TO THE VERTEBRAL COLUMN AND SPINAL CORD — Injuries to the Spinal Cord accompanying Small-calibre Bullet Wounds of the Vertebræ
14. 14.CHAPTER IX — INJURIES TO THE PERIPHERAL NERVE TRUNKS — Injuries to Special Nerves — Cases of Nerve Injury
15. 15.CHAPTER X — INJURIES TO THE CHEST
16. 16.CHAPTER XI — INJURIES TO THE ABDOMEN — Injuries To the Intestinal Tract — Cases From the Action at Karee — Injuries to the Solid Abdominal Viscera — Wounds of the External Genital Organs — FOOTNOTES:
17. 17.CHAPTER XII — ON SHELL WOUNDS
18. 18.INDEX

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