Observations on Gunshot Wounds of the Extremities, Illustrated by a Case

Gtunshot wounds of the extremities, when complicated with compound fractures, and splintering of the bones, are justly regarded as most serious injuries, so much so, that the hope of saving a limb under such circumstances, is seldom entertained ; for, independent of the danger of mortification, which, in the first instance, is always to be apprehended, and the chance of the patient ultimately sinking under the irritative fever, together with the tedious and exhausting suppuration which, at a later period, is al-