A SUGGESTION AS TO TREATMENT OF GUNSHOT WOUNDS OF THE LUNGS.
Abstract
When a case of gunshot wound of the lung is received into a hospital, the surgical treatment of the wounds of entrance and exit is now-a-days most careful. The wounds are asepticized, a sterile gauze or an air-tight dressing is applied, and as a rule they heal nicely if the patient survives the shock and hemorrhage of the injury.
The point to be made in this communication is that a case of gunshot or other penetrating wound of the lung should never be placed in a general surgical ward, even...