Wounds in war : the mechanism of their production and their treatment . 28 INCHES. - -2 INCHES Fig. i.—Afghan Knife. of 1894, by Surgeon-Captain Bruce Seton, , will befound in the British Medical Journalfor January 1895. Bayonet, lance, and spear wounds, as well as those fromthrusts of the straighter kinds of swords, come, of course,under the head of punctured wounds, and the importanceof this class of injury depends on the depth to which theyreach, as well as on the tissues through which they they have been prone to prolonged suppuration,and it remains to be seen how effec
Wounds in war : the mechanism of their production and their treatment . 28 INCHES. - -2 INCHES Fig. i.—Afghan Knife. of 1894, by Surgeon-Captain Bruce Seton, , will befound in the British Medical Journalfor January 1895. Bayonet, lance, and spear wounds, as well as those fromthrusts of the straighter kinds of swords, come, of course,under the head of punctured wounds, and the importanceof this class of injury depends on the depth to which theyreach, as well as on the tissues through which they they have been prone to prolonged suppuration,and it remains to be seen how effectually or otherwise themodern treatment by dry and antiseptic dressings willprevent this complication. With early and thorough irriga-tion to the bottom of the track, they should, in future, runa more satisfactory course. The more detailed treatmentof wounds by side-arms will be referred to later on. Gunshot Wounds.—The class of wounds in war whichprincipally occupies the military surgeon on active service,and which therefore has for him a special interest, is thatof gunshowoundsinwarmecha1897stev
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