With the condition I have described present it is obvious that in many instances it would add
materially tothe comfort and well-being of the patient if the set of symptoms known as …

THE OPERATION. An incision about 2 in. in length is made in thle patient's arm over the
median basilic vein. The Prelpration of the Artery.-A simlilar incision is made over tlle radial …

Pte. C. was woundled by a rifle bullet, which enteredI the right loin 2 in. below the extremity
of the last rib, and fracturing the transverse process of the second lumbar vertebra, lodged to …

The transport of wounded may be studied from the surgical and from the administrative
points of view. From the surgical point of view advances have been made during the last few …

Thomas Whartoni (1614-73), physician to St. Thomas's Hospital, studied at Cambridge and
Oxford, discoverer of the submaxillary gland, and authlor of Adenoqraphia (1656). George …

Fourteen days later the wounds were healed, f~ ll sensory and motor contr<~ l had returned
and the patient had entirely recovered. Wounds of the spine may be extensive, the whole …

(By H. JOSEPa CATES, MB, BS Lond., House-Surgeon.) CASE I.-EB, aged 45, married, was
admitted with enlarged glands along the left sterno-mastoid. The glands at the angle of the …

newer and more efficacious weapons of offence and the military surgeon, or it may be phy-
sician, has to keep pace with the ever-increasing variety of wounds in war. We possess …

at the field ambulance or clearing hospital as a precautionary measure. In the case of the
knee, as soon as a diagnosis of suppuration is made, provided adequate treatment can be …

This book is a handbook in reality, as well as in name, suited for the daily use of an army
surgeon in active work. In a brief, condensed manner and still with sufficient detail, and with …