This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 Excerpt: ...bodies have been discharged or extracted through the wound, and sometimes even ejected by coughing. Guthrie confirms these observations, lie has seen pieces of wadding, of buttons, of bone, and of cloth, coughed up, but never a ball; though, it is said, even this has occurred. After death, he has seen all these things ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 Excerpt: ...bodies have been discharged or extracted through the wound, and sometimes even ejected by coughing. Guthrie confirms these observations, lie has seen pieces of wadding, of buttons, of bone, and of cloth, coughed up, but never a ball; though, it is said, even this has occurred. After death, he has seen all these things loose in the chest. Halls more frequently become encysted, and remain without exciting inconvenience. A case is recorded of a man carrying a ball in bis chest for forty years. It was received at the battle of Waterloo, lie died in London a few years ago. Hennen mentions cases in which they have been encysted in the substance of the lungs, and no inconvenience felt from them. Percy mentions instances in which tl/ey have been known to roll about upon every motion of the patient. This I doubt. But however that may be, when they do remain, they are generally confined in sacs. Fraser has enumerated a number of cases of this sort--one in the Lancet for Jan., 1847, --where a ball had lodged near the surface of the lung for 50 years; one in the Transactions of the Medico-Chirurgical Society, where a piece of iron hoop had remained in the chest 14 years. These cases are remarkable and interesting in showing such surprising tenacity of life under such severe injuries of the thorax. We can not nccount for such results, especially when we contrast them with the great mortality following even thrusts with a small sword or the smallest pistol ball, implicating the viscera contained in the thorax. Ilennen has given a report of a case, in which a man was wounded between the third and fourth ribs of the right side. The only singularity about the case was, the large irregular wound, admitting three fingers. On the fifth day, while turning the man to examine the ..
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