The Errand of Mercy a History of Ambulance Work Upon the Battlefield
The Errand of Mercy a History of Ambulance Work Upon the Battlefield
M Mostyn Bird
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The blackened appearance of the wound he demonstrated to be due to the powder and dirt carried on the clumsy bullet and deposited on the torn edges of the skin, the septic discharges to injury of the deeper tissues and bones, and the surrounding inflammation to the bruising of the bullet. He gave a very frank THE ERRAND OF MERCY 127 and honest account of the chance manner in which his first doubts of the necessity for the scalding oil treatment were aroused, and of his further experiments in le...aving the wounds to nature. It was on his expedition with the Army to Turin in 1536, when he was only twenty years of age, that there were such a great number of wounded that the cauldron of boiling oil prepared by the surgeons to cauterize all the gunshot wounds was entirely exhausted. Pare therefore had to content himself with the use of a simple dressing. He spent a night of great distress and anxiety as to the result, but when he went the round of his patients in the morning great was his astonishment and relief to find that those wounds which had escaped scalding were doing considerably better than the others.
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