In 1915, Dr Edmond Delorme, a distinguished French military surgeon published a small handbook on advances in military surgery entitled War Surgery. This book was considered to be so valuable that it was translated into English by Dr H. de Méric, a surgeon to the French Hospital in London and it was published in England by H. K. Lewis of Gower Street, London.
The book was in use during the second World War in 1940 as there is an inscription on the Title Page referring to an owner, "Boy Johnson - 1940".
Modern management, with the advantages of such technical advances in radiology as Computerised Axial Tomography, and vastly improved anaesthesia tends to be more aggressive in its approach to the management of gunshot wounds of soft tissues; surgical exploration of the track, or debridement, is now much more likely to be used than in 1915 when antibiotics were unknown.
Dr Geoffrey Miller, Editor
WAR SURGERY
CONTENTS
CHAPTERS:
1. WEAPONS AND PROJECTILES (RIFLES)
2. PROJECTILES (GUNS)
3. WOUNDS OF DIFFERENT TISSUES
4. WOUNDS OF ARTERIES
5. WOUNDS OF THE NERVES
6. FOREIGN BODIES
7. BONY LESIONS OF THE DIAPHYSES
8. LESIONS OF THE ARTICULATIONS
9. GENERAL COMPLICATIONS OF WOUNDS BY FIRE-ARMS
10. WOUNDS BY LARGE PROJECTILES AND THEIR FRAGMENTS
11. NOTES ON AMPUTATIONS
12. WOUNDS OF THE SKULL AND BRAIN
13. WOUNDS OF THE FACE
14. WOUNDS OF THE NECK
15. WOUNDS OF THE CHEST
16. WOUNDS OF THE ABDOMEN
17. WOUNDS OF THE LUMBAR REGION AND OF THE KIDNEYS
18. WOUNDS IN THE REGION OF THE PELVIS
19. WOUNDS OF THE VERTEBRAL COLUMN AND OF THE SPINAL CORD
20. WOUNDS OF THE UPPER LIMBS
21. WOUNDS OF THE LOWER LIMBS