Rub down an ounce of castor oil in two drachms of mucilage of gum arabic, add three ounces of dill water, and a drachm of tincture of jalap, gradually.
While the half mould thus made is hardening thoroughly, carefully remove every particle of plaster from the basin in which it was mixed, and also from the spoon which has been used.
Carefully bend the feather with the thumb and finger to the proper shape; mind not to break the web.
Ellis mentions ligature of both carotids in four and a half days, as a treatment for a gunshot wound, with subsequent recovery.
There are many cases on record in which an injury, particularly a gunshot wound of the skull, though showing no external wound, has caused death by producing a fracture of the internal table of the cranium.
Camden reports a case in which a ball received in a gunshot wound of the brain remained in situ for thirteen years; Cronyn mentions a similar case in which a bullet rested in the brain for eight years.
A gunshot wound by musket–shot is attended with an amount of pain which varies very much in degree according to the kind of wound, condition of mind, and state of constitution of the soldier at the time of its infliction.
A gunshot wound, whether received from a direct or indirect projectile, may be complicated by the entrance of extraneous bodies of various kinds, most commonly portions of the cloth or buttons of the dress worn by the person wounded.
This is generally described as the “shock” of a gunshot wound.
The same author also supposes the following case: A man having received a gunshot wound of the shoulder is doing well, when in another quarrel he receives a penetrating stab-wound of the thorax and abdomen.
When a person has died of a gunshot wound, especially at close range, it is important to look for any wadding or paper found in the wound, as in a number of instances the finding of such has led to the detection of the criminal.
The results as set forth justify the assumption that a septic bullet can infect a gunshot wound.
The writer has seen them thus in situ accompanying regularly-formed gall-stones in a case of gunshot wound of the liver.
He has shown, contrary to the previously-accepted view, that amyloid degeneration may follow in three months after the reception of a gunshot wound.
An example has occurred under the observation of the writer, but the cause was a gunshot wound of the liver.
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