GUNSHOT WOUNDS: 
a pate er ea lofs of the ta and derange- only run s fup peng? it, the { 
ment o ot the funétions of life. However, it is worthy from viet § it is when the fkull is fractured, the brain pet 
of notice, ome seen ee violent gunfhot wounds the fternum broken, and lungs wounded; or 
without the leait fupenfion of the mental faculties. fhot throu 5 
e remember a failor, about one and twenty years of age, e thalf next proceed to {peak of the treatment of gun- 
who had his whole = and a confiderable part of his saci fhot wounds, 
cannon-fhot from a_ French fort Before the period when Mr. Hunter wrote on the prefent 
the Welt Indies The fcapula had been - micigeet dost  fubjeG, it was always the cuftom to open the orifice of | 
tered, that a. furgeon of Antigua had advifable every wound made by amu cet-ball immediatly, or as foon. 
Temove t whole of the ere oie: Wa were in- si the accident as poffible. So much w Pp 
ab ontin 
he had fuftained. He was prefented about a year andahalf*that gunfhot wounds had fomething wes in Pela 
ago to the fargeons of St. Bartholomew’s hofpital, the cafe courfe were different from all other wounds, and that their 
being remarkable on account of the tétal lofs of the fca- peculiarity was removed by the opening, That great fur- 
ps. Chefelden and fome other pics have AB Bs —— geon; however, could not siifecrn any iuch re oi 
ba the So Baty are becomin Se “Ma any and rying before i it slaphet and even are of the fbflance ae 
any Ww 
. 
a 
patient, tees esses will pamicas 3 hale a ag ble, as balls, Ke. Yet it is pple ey 
t put: round we limb, ready to be tightened in an the practice was only altered ae as 
extraneo 
"patie ent, or nurfe, may be directed how to - t to extract a 
pS band, i m Se ‘of neceflity. <! is Bins ce had fhewn th e general i 
The x no longer confider gunfhot wounds as being Pete Saas firft inftance, the un n of lating 
tither injuries of a fpecific nature, or cafes complicated with the mouth of the wound was not difconthrueds though the 
thelodgment of any poifon onous matter in the part. Noeris it endeavour to extraét the ball been doned.. - 
bl ppoled, that, in ordinary inftances, the heat of the | The circumftance of Lise wounds being coutetbeds 
1 Secafion of any of the extenfive mifchief which obliges moft of them to fuppurate, becaufe there is more or 
| sia 3 obfer nies . The Joust of gpaE of thefe lefs flough aiid Paige o! soe at the. eS by. 
ft be a 
i cane. * oe in- Th re pres ie Sg eculi ot wounds, “Mr. 
ya caufe eg ex! ive inflammations, Hunter was of | pin hat the Pi ting them, asa 
oe sa in too many inftances, of gan - general one, ought to be d, were it only for this rea-_ 
wounds of the head, ee a 
