. Commentaries on the surgery of the war in Portugal, Spain, France, and the Netherlands, from the battle of Roliça, in 1808, to that of Waterloo, in 1815; with additions relating to those in the Crimea in 1854-55, showing the improvements made during and since that period in the great art and science of surgery on all the subjects to which they relate. Revised to October, 1855. ther sinuses wereformed, the one passing ex-ternally and terminating byan adhesion of the lung withthe ribs at the point wherethe ball had entered; theother was longer and moretortuous, passing deeply inthe substance o
. Commentaries on the surgery of the war in Portugal, Spain, France, and the Netherlands, from the battle of Roliça, in 1808, to that of Waterloo, in 1815; with additions relating to those in the Crimea in 1854-55, showing the improvements made during and since that period in the great art and science of surgery on all the subjects to which they relate. Revised to October, 1855. ther sinuses wereformed, the one passing ex-ternally and terminating byan adhesion of the lung withthe ribs at the point wherethe ball had entered; theother was longer and moretortuous, passing deeply inthe substance of the lung,and ending in a large abscesscapable of containing five orsix ounces of pus. The lung ^. Section of the lung, made vertically. WaS at itS loWCr part firmly B. Section of the abscess communicating j,ffopV,p^ fn fhp r-iKc hv irifpr- by the sinus, C, with the circumscribed aildLUeu lU lue llUb uy lUiei- cavity, D, in which the bullet had been vcning falsC membrane, wllilc lodged after its entrance by the sinus, E. ,^ , /. ?^ F. The sinus by which the ball had the Upper part was tree, ana passed into the pleural cavity, G J^^d bcCOmC COmprCSSed to- Opposite the 7th and 8th ribs the lung is - ^v^ w ^ ^ |^^ w quite adherent. waid the spiual columu. The ^- ^^^ ^^^- substance of that part of the lung not involved in the abscess was infiltrated with pus, and. ILLUSTRATIVE CASES. 401 the greater number of the bronchial tubes were filled up by-masses of curdy matter similar to those found floating in theeffused fluid. The natural division of the lung into lobeswas quite destroyed by the pleuritic adhesions of one to theother, while the pleura lining the parietes was covered bjrugged layers of false membrane of irregular thickness, butreadily detached. jSTo trace of tubercular deposit could befound, and the lung of the opposite side w^as quite the first publication of these cases the operation hasbeen so frequently and, in many instances, so successfullyp
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