GUNSHOT WOUNDS. 
Ss ae enolent pour are ae the 
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ce 
during the fuppurative Rage, without any vifible caufe, and 
putsa ftop to the fecretion of matter. Sometimes, alfo, 
without any manifeft reafon, the wound fuppurates in an ex- 
ee. Accordizg to Richter, fuch circum- 
ftances very frequently depend on the lodgment of fplinters 
of bone, which fhould be extracted, if the; ey can be felt, and 
taken away oe creating too raise irritation: 
~ We have already noticed the rif of hemorrhage in many 
guofhot wounds, when the flourhs become loofe. Writers 
mention another particularly dangerous kind of 
Which is apt to arife from certai n 
rm a ina ftate of of ufe fu op olay 
in ae omg and its caufes are 
- he cafe demands the exhibition of 
pec dei , alum, po dilated fulphuric acid. At the fame time, 
( ong ' bark and muriatic ba may be applied to 
od don | as fuppuration ores aga . is common for the 
fatory fymptoms to go off, and the {welling to abate. 
oa it is obferved by M. Chaceatiae: that the {welling, 
OF ditappearing entirely on a fudden, ought only to 
age = diminution, together with the other fymp- 
while ; For if at any period the ‘shin fuddenly fubfides, 
Sey the quency of the ptlfe, debility, want of appe- 
efs, continue or Pees the death of the 
iftance. The moft powerful cordiais 
aromatics are then isle ef -2iitenk unfortunately, 
the ma $ which 
- in hot co oer and are 
as they oiodiee irritation. Tt 
Dran, that they are only feen in healthy 
a or by applyin, camphorated 
on Gunfhot Wounds, ose 3- p. 148 
. effete the patient wil almoft certainly ; 
Phase teed the virtues of bark and every kit 
aromatic medicines, pg s og _Tament- 
cai thofe cafes in Widhh:. tik Ms Eee 
Peer confiderably that thattered, vel@a « ef ade aan a 
which only a large mafs of ficfh- has been torn off, or has 
2 eis es nb in confitfiience of the firft ee attack 
in 
Whiover” Tach fymptoms and mifchief worry and the 
wound is fo fituated on a “limb that the difeafed part can be 
pines taken away, and a healthy wound and good ftump 
made, amputation fhould not be delayed, as the opportunity 
of faving life i is fhort, and ought not to be loft. No humane 
practitioner, however, would urge the performance of a fe- 
vere operation, and mutilate his patient while the patient's 
rength feems capable of bearing a longer attempt to pre- 
fervet the limb, or while the effeéts of a generous diet, bark, 
pr oat wine, porter, “&c, had not been fufficientl y 
tric 
“« Profufe aileh ated fays M. Chevalier, “ are ele 
up from the wound by the continuance of extraneous f 
qapeet, which may now be fearched after w ith more free. 
when the parts have got intoa oe {tate linters 
of Tlie willalfo have the Bias efle& ; and where either the 
former or Be latter have not been, or “carinot be readily re- 
moved, or f] ree have not been ann & eee ab- 
: need: the 
c ment of matter any where will always do a 
fhould as much as poffible be prevented by bya péhition, 
and proper openings. 15 
here 
e inflammation 
the pus is greatly prevented. from s way to the 
furface of the body by the intervention of the fafcia, and, 
confequently, the abfcels {preads widely between the ane 
neurofis ze go: bjacent mufcles, and between ‘the muicles 
themfel = fo as ta create a confiderable augmentation of 
t We have feen fuch ple e Aa the 
ori 1 wound had healed up to a very fiftulous - 
ra bia could afford no offeatual efcape for the matter. Tn 
very cafe of rea map eate it is the duty of the 
titioner to make proper openings of due fize, nl 
not to delay bers fo till ¢ abfeefs has acquired a formid- 
itude. 
: Sona o bringa patient Safely through the: tedious and 
tpg ar ppurating gunfhot wound, the fur- 
a) irritation ave pore. a fee dire Wine, preter, 
prove of fingular fe: 
WiGGisek og : Lp 
‘When the ea Barge iat teat permit, a change 
of air, fore. wa to the  feafidey willoften seat uch = 
