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. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... are half-closed. He is cold, pulseless, wet, clammy, yellow tinted, shrunken faced. The wound contains mud and clothing and is infected. This is not an exceptional, not an unusual case, but common after a great battle. The condition varies with the character of the wound, the kind of weather, the nature of ...
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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. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... are half-closed. He is cold, pulseless, wet, clammy, yellow tinted, shrunken faced. The wound contains mud and clothing and is infected. This is not an exceptional, not an unusual case, but common after a great battle. The condition varies with the character of the wound, the kind of weather, the nature of the place which has offered concealment, the possibility of obtaining food, the type of infection--pyogenic, gas gangrene, tetanus. The onset of tetanic convulsions may occur in a dark night when the exhausted soldier is half-submerged in bottomless mud (Flanders Fields), the vigorous convulsive movements deepening his position until the advent of the last beneficent convulsion which completes the welcome closure of the soft mud over him, ending his Fig. 37.--Effect Of Combined Stimuli, Chief Among Which Were InSomnia, Exertion, And Emotion, On The Brain, Adrenals, And Liver Of A Soldier Who Died From Exhaustion. Case II (A and D from photomicrographs X 310; B, C, E, and F from photomicrographs X 1640.) A, Section of normal cerebellum. B, Section of normal adrenal. C, Section of normal liver. D, Section of cerebellum of exhausted soldier. E, Section of adrenal of exhausted soldier. F, Section of liver of exhausted soldier. pathologic strivings. Even the slightly wounded may be drowned in mud. Sometimes they are rescued, sometimes they gravitate and join the throng underneath; for many hundreds, perhaps thousands, of wounded soldiers have been swallowed by the morass. Exhaustion in every form is seen in the wake of battle. The surgeon sees only the more fortunate cases. The untold stories need not concern us; the every-day facts are sufficient (Figs. 36, 37). From their personal experience in the observation, examination, and treatment of these...
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Very good(-) Edited by Amy Rowland. Illustrated. 272 pages. Tall 8vo, green cloth. Philadelphia: Saunders, 1920. Ex-library copy with various stamps and markings, still a very good(-) usable copy. Second edition of "Anoci-Association" thoroughly revised and rewritten. Detailed exposition of "his most important contribution to surgery" (Garrison)-the blocking of shock in operations.
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First printing of the second and revised edition. Hardcover. Near fine in original publisher's cloth. Small bookseller's label at bottom of front pastedown. A tight, clean and unmarked copy. 272pp. Illustrated. See Garrison and Morton 55629: "Crile advanced the anoci-association concept in which local and general anesthesia are combined in a sequence to eliminate pre-operative fear and tension."
