Gunshot Injuries: Their History, Characteristic Features, Complications, and General Treatment; With Statistics Concerning Them as They Are Met With in Warfare (Classic Reprint)

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The subject of Gunshot Injuries and their treatment has acquired a large amount of interest of late years. Neither time, nor money, nor mechanical skill have been spared in promoting efforts to produce guns and rifles of more and more destructive qualities. Nations the most prominent in civilisation have alike vied with each other in struggling to Obtain' armaments of such numerical superiority and overpowering weight as shall enable them the more surely to disable all antagonists to whom they may happen to become opposed. From time to time the improved fire-arms resulting from these continued efforts to secure military ascend ancy, have been practically turned to account in national conflicts, and opportunities have been unhappily afforded of observing the injuries inflicted by them in vast and overwhelming numbers.

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