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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    VII. ON THE TREATMENT OF GUN-SHOT WOUNDS DURING THE INFLAMMATORY STAGE. Inflammation is a greater degree of action in the arteries of a part, than can be continued without deranging its func- tions or its structure. This action of the arteries may be increased in strength, but not in frequency ; or in frequency, but not in strength; or both in frequency and strength. Now as the proportion be- tween the action and the strength varies exceedingly in different cases, and under different circumstances, he who is able well to discriminate these differences, and to adjust his mode of treatment accord- ingly, has made no mean progress in the knowledge of his profession. A sufficient degree of inflammation to produce suppuration over the wounded surfaces, must take place in every Gun- shot Wound, in order that its surface G4