Based on the author's exhaustive research, this is the first dedicated account of surgery during the Napoleonic Wars, before anaesthetic and antiseptic. Includes background and nature of the patients, the experience of wounding, and the training of surgeons, with extensive and many unique illustrations.
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Michael Crumplin is a retired general surgeon who has studied medicine in the Napoleonic Wars for over forty years. He is a curator and archivist at the English College and is Treasurer and Trustee of the Waterloo Committee.
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light dragoons, capital surgery, musket ball injury, crown trephine, fungus cerebri, dental key, capital knife, bone nippers, screw tourniquet, field tourniquet, spring forceps, hospital mate, adhesive straps, civilian surgeons, musket hall, dressing forceps, infect ion, constricting ring, sabre wounds, junior surgeons, military surgery, roller bandages Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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light dragoons, capital surgery, musket ball injury, crown trephine, fungus cerebri, dental key, capital knife, bone nippers, screw tourniquet, field tourniquet, spring forceps, hospital mate, adhesive straps, civilian surgeons, musket hall, dressing forceps, infect ion, constricting ring, sabre wounds, junior surgeons, military surgery, roller bandages Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Royal Navy, George Guthrie, John Hennen, Charles Bell, Peninsular War, Horatio Nelson, Napoleonic Wars, Samuel Cooper, Imperial Guard, Sir John Moore, Mont St Jean, Grande Armée, John Bell, Battle of Toulouse, West Indies, Battle of Waterloo, York Hospital, English College, James Lind, Quatre Bras, Pascal Segrette, Cuidad Rodrigo, George Simmons, Jean Larrey, East India Browse Sample Pages:
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