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Excerpt from Gunshot Injuries: Their History, Characteristic Features, Complications, and General Treatment; With Statistics Concerning Them as They Are Met With in Warfare
But, unhappily, army surgeons know too much of other alter natives; not merely the wounds and tortures of the field of action, but also of what follows them - prolonged suffering, some times destined to last as long as life itself, and sad mutilations, rendering existence a struggle, or depriving it of all, or nearly all, enjoyment. Army surgeons know so much of these results of gun shot injuries; they have them in such large numbers, and for such long periods, before them that strange, indeed, must be the feel ings Of those who are not influenced by an earnest desire to be acquainted with every professional resource that can be turned to account for mitigating such terrible evils.
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Excerpt from Gunshot Injuries: Their History, Characteristic Features, Complications, and General Treatment; With Statistics Concerning Them as They Are Met With in Warfare
The subject of Gunshot Injuries and their treatment has acquired a large amount of interest of late years. Neither time, nor money, nor mechanical skill have been spared in promoting efforts to produce guns and rifles of more and more destructive qualities. Nations the most prominent in civilisation have alike vied with each other in struggling to Obtain' armaments of such numerical superiority and overpowering weight as shall enable them the more surely to disable all antagonists to whom they may happen to become opposed. From time to time the improved fire-arms resulting from these continued efforts to secure military ascend ancy, have been practically turned to account in national conflicts, and opportunities have been unhappily afforded of observing the injuries inflicted by them in vast and overwhelming numbers.
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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.