INDEX OF CASES.
- A soldier, wounded in the thigh, the ball passing between the femoral artery and vein, 26.
- Generals Sir Lowry Cole, Sir E. Packenham, and Colonel Duckworth; injuries to arteries, 26.
- Colonel Sir W. Myers and General Sir R. Crawford, illustrating the shock of a severe wound, 26, 27.
- Colonel Ross; musket-shot wound of arm: gradual descent of the ball to the elbow, 36.
- Erysipelas phlegmonodes of the left arm, treated by incisions, 41.
- Local mortification of a leg struck by a cannon-shot, the internal textures being destroyed, 43.
- Section of the brachial plexus of nerves by a gunshot wound, causing paralysis, complicated by gunshot wound of the knee-joint, requiring secondary amputation, 47.
- Sir James Kempt; injury to a nerve, 48.
- Admiral Sir Philip Broke; wound of skull, with paralysis, 48.
- Brigade-Major Bissett; gunshot wound, injuring the left great sciatic nerve, perineum, and rectum, 49.
- Mr. Wrottesley, of the Engineers; right thigh shattered by a cannon-shot, etc., 53.
- An East Indian; severe wound of left thigh from the explosion of his gun; amputation, death, 53.
- A soldier of the siege train before Sebastopol; the left thigh nearly carried off by a cannot-shot, 54.
- Purulent deposit, after amputation, 61.
- Phlebitis, 64.
- Jane Strangemore; amputation of limb for white-swelling of the knee-joint; fatal phlebitis, 64.
- Endemic fever, after secondary amputation, with subacute pneumonia, 67, 68.
- Sloughing of a spear-wound of the arm, 69.
- Captain Flack; cannon-shot wound of left thigh, 77.
- Excision of the head and neck of the femur, 94.
- Colonel Donnellan; musket-shot wound of knee-joint, 96.
- Excision of knee-joint, by Dr. Gurdon Buck, 97.
- by Mr. Jones of Jersey, 97, 98.
- Amputation of the foot, by Roux’s operation, 108.
- Ball lodged in the astragalus, 110.
- Excision of the astragalus and calcis, 115.
- head of the humerus, a musket-ball having lodged in the bone, 128, 131.
- Gunshot wounds of the shoulder-joint, 131, 132.
- Lieutenant Timbrell; gunshot fracture of both thighs; recovery without amputation, 149.
- Illustrative of the means used by nature for the suppression of hemorrhage, 194.
- Illustrative of gunshot wounds of the femoral artery, 196, 208.
- Ligature of the right common iliac artery, for supposed gluteal aneurism, 206.
- Punctured wounds of arteries, 210.
- Colonel Fane; wound of carotid by an arrow; formation of an aneurism, 211.
- Scythe wound of the femoral artery, 213.
- Wound of femoral artery with a pen-knife; closure of wound; formation of traumatic aneurism, 215.
- Gunshot wound of the thigh; severe hemorrhage finally arrested without ligature of the artery, 216.
- Don Bernardino Garcia Alvarez; gunshot wound of the thigh; hemorrhage from a deeply-seated vessel; ligature of the common femoral; fatal mortification. The femoral artery quite sound, 218.
- Duckshot wound of thigh; closure of wound; aneurismal swelling punctured; hemorrhage; ligature of femoral high up; death, 218.
- Captain Seton; gunshot wound of upper part of thigh; hemorrhage from a superficial branch of the femoral; ligature of the external iliac; fatal peritonitis; errors in the treatment, 219.
- Dry gangrene, from injury to the main artery of the lower extremity, 227.
- following an injury to the popliteal space; large incision in the calf, evacuating a quantity of coagulated blood; subsequent separation of the limb, 228.
- Gunshot wound of the posterior tibial artery; secondary hemorrhage and traumatic aneurism; ligature of the femoral artery, renewal of the hemorrhage, amputation, death, 230.
- of the peroneal artery, hemorrhage and formation of an aneurism; ligature of the wounded vessel; recovery, 231.
- Axillary aneurism from a bruise; ligature of the subclavian; rupture of the sac; death, 236.
- Shell injury; amputation of right leg and arm; secondary hemorrhage; ligature of the subclavian near the seat of the bleeding, 237.
- Wounds of the vertebral artery, recorded by Breschet, Chiari, Ramaglia, and Maisonneuve, 242.
- Wound of the external carotid during an operation; utter insufficiency of one ligature, 244, 245.
- Gunshot wound of head, face, and neck; injury of external carotid and its branches; partial slough of internal carotid; ligature of latter vessel; compression; recovery, 247.
- Wound of internal carotid through the mouth; successful ligature of the vessel, 249.
- Ligature of the common iliac artery, 252.
- Wound of the gluteal artery; ligature of that artery and of the internal iliac; death, 260.
- Wound of the popliteal artery by a mortising chisel; secondary hemorrhage; ligature of the femoral unsuccessful; cure by ligature of the popliteal, 265.
- Balls lodging in the brain, 284.
- Concussion in a child, 289.
- Coup-de-soleil, 293.
- Concussion of the brain, passing into excitement, etc., 294.
- Gouty inflammation, transferred to the brain, 296.
- Illustrative of the treatment of concussion, 297.
- Concussion, complicated by the symptoms of compression, 298.
- followed by mania, 300.
- Illustrative of the after-effects of concussion, 301.
- Fatal paralysis, caused by compression of the brain, 307.
- Illustrative of the different forms of paralysis following compression or irritation of the brain, 309.
- Fracture of the skull without depression, 311.
- Fracture of the skull, with injury to the middle meningeal artery, 315.
- Fracture of the base of the cranium, 317.
- Fracture of the inner table of the skull, without injury to the outer plate of bone, 322.
- Fracture of the inner table of the skull, without injury to the outer; subsequent hemiplegia of the right side; operation with the trephine two years afterward, 323.
- Illustrative of a peculiar fracture of the inner table of the skull, with a cutting instrument, 325.
- Gunshot wounds of the skull and brain, the ball lodging, 331, 343, 348.
- Injury to the head from a fall; large abstraction of blood, 334.
- Comminuted fracture of the skull, by a piece of shell, 336.
- Injury to the head, the symptoms of concussion and compression being combined, 338.
- Gunshot fracture of the left parietal, with suppuration on the surface of, and in the substance of the brain, 343.
- Gunshot wound of the skull, the breech-pin of the gun lodging in the brain, 348.
- Separation of the sagittal suture by a fall, consequent to a gunshot wound of the body, 349.
- Gunshot injury to the frontal sinuses, 350.
- Wounds of the orbit, 351.
- Fungus cerebri, 353.
- Major D.; gunshot wound of the forehead; incomplete recovery, 357.
- Loss of a large portion of the skull; reported by Dr. Drummond, 359.
- Cannon-shot wound of the head and face, 361.
- Wound of scalp and parietal bone, 362.
- Non-penetrating wounds of the chest, 365.
- Acute pneumonia and pleurisy, 383.
- Dr. Wendelstadt; empyema, 398.
- Mr. Winter; gunshot wound of the chest, followed by empyema, 399.
- Lance and musket-shot wounds of the chest, causing empyema, 399.
- Mr. Cornish; pneumothorax and phthisis, 403.
- Pistol shot wound of the chest, with pneumothorax and empyema, 404.
- Lord Beaumont, 407.
- Sword wound of the chest, with emphysema, 412.
- Wounds of both sides of the chest, 417.
- Penetrating wounds of the chest, the lung being injured, 418.
- Sword wounds of the chest, 420.
- Penetrating wounds of the chest, with internal hemorrhage, 423.
- Fracture of rib, in gunshot wound of chest, 428, 447.
- General Sir Lowry Cole; gunshot wound of the lung, 430.
- Illustrative of gunshot wounds of the lungs, 431.
- General Sir A. Barnard, 431.
- Major-General Broke, 432.
- The Duke of Richmond, 433.
- Mrs. M., 435.
- Sir C. B.; effusion, 436.
- Gunshot wounds of the lungs, with fracture of ribs, effusion, etc., 436.
- Lieut.-Col. Dumaresq, 440.
- A two-pound shot passing through the right side of the chest, 441.
- Post-mortem appearances in gunshot wounds of the chest, 442.
- Mr. Drummond, 443.
- Gunshot wound of the lung; extensive enlargement of the wound; removal of splinters and of a piece of cloth, 446.
- Gunshot wound of the lung, remaining fistulous; death from pneumonia seven months afterward, 447.
- Gunshot wounds of the chest, the ball or other foreign body being loose in the cavity of the pleura, 448.
- Major-General Sir R. Crawford, 449.
- Gunshot wounds of the chest, the ball or other foreign body being inclosed in a cyst, 451.
- Wounds of the diaphragm, 458.
- Captain Prevost, 458.
- The Duc de Berri, 469.
- Lance wound of the heart and diaphragm, 470.
- Latour d’Auvergne, premier grenadier de France, 472.
- General Sir G. Walker; gunshot wound of the chest; secondary hemorrhage from the intercostal artery, 474.
- Gunshot wound of the chest, with rapidly fatal hemorrhage from a wounded intercostal artery, 475.
- Gunshot wounds of the neck, 476.
- General Sir E. Packenham; twice shot through the neck, on different occasions, 476.
- Lieut.-General Sir A. Leith; amaurosis from a sword wound in the forehead, 478.
- General Sir Colin Halkett; gunshot wounds of the neck, thigh, and face, 479.
- Gunshot fracture of the lower jaw, 480.
- Colonel Carleton; gunshot fracture of the lower jaw, 481.
- Captain Fritz; bursting of his gun; lodgment of the iron breech in the forehead; its descent through the nares into the mouth, 482.
- Ventral rupture, the result of severe bruises or other injuries to the abdominal parietes, 488.
- Severe and extensive wound of abdominal parietes from a musket-shot; exposure of the peritoneum, healing by granulations, 489.
- General Sir John Elley; sabre wound of abdomen, involving the stomach, and followed by a small hernia, 490.
- Rupture of intestine from external injury, 491.
- Rupture of kidney and injury to the spine from a cannon-shot, 492.
- Fatal inflammation of omentum, intestines, and peritoneum, with effusion, from a severe bruise inflicted by a ricochet cannon-shot, 492.
- Penetrating wound of abdomen by a ramrod, 497.
- Penetrating wounds of abdomen, with protrusion of omentum, 500.
- with protrusion of intestine, 502.
- Penetrating wound of abdomen, with formation of abscess, 505.
- Sabre wounds of the abdomen, with extensive hemorrhage, 510.
- Sabre wound of abdomen, with suppuration in the cavity, reported by Ravaton, 512.
- Strangulated inguinal hernia; operation; sloughing of the intestine, etc., 512.
- Gunshot wounds of abdomen, with protrusion or injury of intestine, 516.
- A Russian officer, with a gunshot wound of abdomen, a tape-worm cut in two by the ball, causing intense suffering until it was extracted, 524.
- Lieut.-General Sir S. Barns; gunshot wound of the liver, 529.
- Gunshot wounds of the liver and gall-bladder, 530.
- In which portions of the liver have been removed, 533.
- In which a pig’s tail was thrust up the rectum, 535.
- In which the spleen was removed, 537.
- Wounds of the kidney, 538.
- Medullary sarcoma of the right testicle, involving the lumbar glands, ending fatally, caused by a gunshot wound of the testis, 540.
- Gunshot wound of the penis, 540.
- Pistol-shot wound in the last dorsal or upper lumbar vertebra, causing complete paraplegia, 541.
- Gunshot wounds of the pelvis, 542.
- The late Colonel Wade; gunshot wound, the ball passing through the ilium; lodgment of the ball for thirty-five years, 542.
- The late General Sir Hercules Packenham, G.C.B.; musket-shot wound of the pelvis, lodgment of the ball, 542.
- Colonel Sir J. M. Wilson; three musket-shot wounds of the left hip, one passing upward through the ilium, and lodging against or in the spine, causing paralysis of the left lower extremity, etc.; lodgment of the ball, 543.
- Gunshot wound of the external and common iliac arteries, 544.
- of the pelvis, the ball lodging, extracted on the forty-fifth day after the wound; reported by La Motte, 545.
- Captain Campbell; pistol-shot wound of abdomen; injury to spine, 545.
- Gunshot wounds of the bladder, 549.
- Captain Sleigh; gunshot wound of the pelvis, the ball entering the left groin, over Poupart’s ligament, and traversing the bladder obliquely; retention of urine; urethra obstructed by pieces of bone, 551.
- Calculus formed around the ball in the bladder, 552.
- Pistol shot wound of the bladder; retention of urine; tumor in the perineum containing bloody urine, punctured; the ball, portions of shirt, etc., extracted from the bladder; reported by Baron Percy, 554.
- Captain Gordon, R. N.; rifle-shot wound on one side of the sacrum, the ball wounding the rectum, and passing out on the other side of the sacrum; paralysis of the bladder for a time; permanent partial paralysis of the lower limbs, 555.
- Gunshot wounds of the rectum, 555.