Notes On The Wounded From The Mutiny In India PDF Download

Excerpt from Notes on the Wounded From the Mutiny in India: With a Description of the Preparations Gunshot Injuries Contained in the Museum at Fort Pitt Contained in the Museum at Fort Pitt All Soldiers of Cavalry and Infantry of the Line, invalided on account of wounds, pass through the Invalid Depot at Chatham. It is there, then, that probably the best opportunity is to be found for ascertaining the results of different wars, in the several classes and species of wounds, and in the proportion which those classes and species bear to each other, and to the total by all wounds. The collection and record of such results seem to me to be always very desirable; and I have availed myself of the opportunity alluded to as regards the wounded by the mutiny in India. The following pages contain the result of my labours. I feel that they might have been made more valuable and interesting had similar accurate records existed of the invalids wounded by former wars, with which I could have compared data, and so have drawn more comprehensive information, statistical and surgical. I am in hopes, however, that some points worthy of notice have been elicited; and, for example, I may refer to the large number of cases of gunshot compound fracture of the femur, where the patients have recovered with good, useful limbs, as compared with the number of thigh-stump cases, and the total by all wounds. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.