Head Injuries in Wartime
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assume he applied to present conditions. It is perhaps reasona head that in air bombing some 10 out of every 100 injuries wdlbehe a ^juries. Of these maybe three will be severe untreata ' f?ur, closed injuries (with no open wound), and three will P bounds of the skull, scalp and brain. It will be noticed that the incidence of closed injuries is placed higher than openl injuri ' *nay be surprising, but is probably true and will be a u e head Thus a large raid with say 5,000 casualties will Pyov\ Ascribe injuries requiring treatment. The purpose of this ar ic e is the form these injuries may take.
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دوره 57 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 1940