SURGERY ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.

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XX.—GUNSHOT WOUNDS, AMPUTATION, EXARTICULATION, RESECTION. Gunshot wounds in general; Gunshot fractures; Conservative surgery; Gunshot wounds of the joints; Injuries by cannon balls; Primary or secondary amputation; Method of amputation; Exarticulation; Resections. The twentieth chapter of our historical work! Has not the patience of the reader been already exhausted? Has not my work been already laid aside, with a "never more"? I would give something to know as to this. Yet to every colleague who has remained true to me until now I will extend a grateful hand and seek to refresh his severely tried patience, at the close, by a theme of more general interest,gunshot wounds. To what teachings did they pay allegiance, in the year 1750, in case of a simple gunshot wound? Even then had begun, as previously mentioned, an opposition to the excessive probing of gunshot wounds. They distinguished a primitive and consecutive hemorrhage, which, if

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