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Title: Wounds in war : the mechanism of their production and their treatment
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Stevenson, William Flack, 1844-1922
Subjects: Wounds, Gunshot Gunshot wounds Military Medicine Medicine, Military
Publisher: New York : W. Wood
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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gments to each other. Wounds of the thorax and its contents are seriouscomplications which may accompany gunshots of thehumerus ; but their treatment will be considered in anotherchapter. Gunshot Fractures of the Forearm. From 10 per cent, to 15 per cent, of the gunshotfractures met with in war hospitals are fractures of theshaft of the bones of the forearm. During the AmericanWar, a little more than one-third of these injuries impli-cated the radius, about the same proportion the ulna, andsomewhat less than one-third were fractures of both bones.In America most of the cases were treated by the conserva-tive method, with a mortality of 6.4 per cent. : the sameline of treatment in fractures of the ulna alone gave amortality of 5.6 per cent., and of the radius 5 per cent., butin the latter cases the functional disabilities after recoverywere of a graver nature, depending, for the most part, oninterference with pronation and supination. The bones of the forearm are composed of especially
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Fig. 88.—Fracture of both bones of forearm by Mauser. •94 WOUNDS IN WAR hard and brittle tissue, and in consequence of the thinnessof their shafts are liable to be fractured cleanly without

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