The Surgical & medical history of the naval war between Japan & China during 1894-95

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Tokio Printing Company, 1901 - 544 pages
 

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Page 397 - OF THE WOUNDED. Apparatus for the conveyance of the wounded can no more be uniform in size and construction than ships can. Various kinds had been provided for use on board, one like an easy-chair, net hammock, Macdonald's or Gihon's stretchers, etc., and the men had been drilled beforehand in their use. But during the actual engagement, it was found that stretchers of all kinds were cumbrous and troublesome, and of very little use for the speedy conveyance of a large number of wounded to the surgeries,...
Page 399 - ... of the wounds, to disinfect the surrounding skin, to extract foreign bodies when they could be easily .seen and removed, to staunch haemorrhage, by compression or torsion, and in case of a fracture to apply splints. This is inevitable during battle, when little individual care can be given to the patients : when the battle was over, proper treatment was accorded in the order of the urgency of the respective wounds. At the time of the second treatment, the wounds were again disinfected within...
Page 87 - Ins mind clear without any cerebral symptoms. Secondly, a perforating wound on the outer side of the upper part of the left arm. The entrance orifice was found in the front of the arm measuring 5 cm in diameter, with loss of the soft tissues and laceration of the margins. The deltoid muscle was pierced making an exit on the outer and posterior side of the arm. The exit was ragged and the crushed muscular fibres were seen protruding. Its si/e was rather smaller than that of the inlet.
Page 4 - ... number of shells which struck our ships amounted to one hundred odd, but the number killed and wounded by them was comparatively few. A naval battle looks quite different from a land fight, being a more formidable thing ; for it consists of either firing big guns, ramming, or the discharge of torpedoes, by which a whole ship may suddenly be destroyed or sunk, even when it is simply hit by shells. Ships' planks, furniture, &c., are destroyed and many lives are lost or injuries sustained from the...
Page 110 - By one of the fragments, he was injured with a deep lacerated wound on the inner side of the lower third of the right thigh, complicated with an injury to the femoral artery.
Page 389 - ... and as fortunately, the hospital ship was near, they were immediately placed under treatment, but notwithstanding this, among the serious cases many wounds suppurated. \\ e must attribute this to the character of the injuries, and to the difficulty found in keeping a wound from the beginning perfectly clean, which proves' that it is necessary to exercise still greater precaution in the treatment of wounds in question.
Page 509 - A small number of medical men consider that harm results from it, /. e. excessive radiation of bodily heat consequent on the dilatation of blood vessels of the skin, weakening of the resistive power of the body, neglect of work through drunkenness, and baneful effects on the digestive organs and the mind. From these ill effects we are pleased to say that none of our men suffered.
Page 386 - ... removal of the piece is extremely difficult. This becomes another cause of the wound being liable to contamination. The circumstances of the time and the nature of the wounds combined to make suppuration easy ; and a wound once suppurated is very difficult to stop. Moreover in most ships, with a few exceptions, two surgeries were provided one fore and one aft ; each surgery had only one surgeon assisted by one or two nurses, aud when wounded persons were carried in.
Page i - Much has been written about the wounds received in wars on land, indeed the Medical and Surgical History of the American Civil War is full of interest and information. Of naval warfare we possess no medical history : the lessons of Trafalgar and Lissa, and war between Chile and Peru have been lost to us, and there has been no previous experience of the treatment of the wounded on ships since the modern revolution in naval warfare.
Page 393 - ... admitted to the naval hospital on account of shell wounds, many of them suppurated. This should be attributed to the character of shell wounds, to the difficulty found in keeping a wound from the beginning perfectly clean on board the ship. The dressing station of the ship ought to be placed favourably for collecting the wounded from the various parts of the ship, and also in places least liable to be .disturbed by hostile shells. In the manof-war of the present time, the place below the water...

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