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[Circular Seeking Information About the Use of
Chloroform and the Effects of Shock in Surgery]:
Electronic Edition.
Association of Army and Navy Surgeons
(Confederate States of America)
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(title page) [Circular Seeking Information About the Use of Chloroform and the Effects of Shock in Surgery]
1 p.
Richmond
[s. n.]
1863
Call number 3021conf (Rare Book Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
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Library of Congress Subject Headings, 21st edition, 1998
Languages Used:
- English
- French
LC Subject Headings:
- Chloroform.
- Cicatrices.
- Confederate States of America -- Armed Forces -- Medical care.
- Gunshot wounds.
- Mail surveys -- Confederate States of America.
- Shock.
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical care.
Revision History:
- 2001-03-12,
Celine Noel and Wanda Gunther
revised TEIHeader and created catalog record for the electronic edition.
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2001-01-25,
Joshua G. McKim
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2000-11-17,
Andrew Smith
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- 2000-11-3,
Zeng Hong
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Association of Army and Navy Surgeons.
Richmond,------------ 1863.
SIR:
In replying to questions, and in Essays or Papers sent to the Association, a resume is requested, coming to some conclusion, in order to facilitate taking the vote in the decision on the subject.
- I. Any DEATH from Chloroform in YOUR practice; give particulars of the case, if any. Is this agent always used?
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II. 1st. Does "SHOCK" postpone YOUR surgical interference; at what period of time, after injury, are YOU usually able to operate?
2d. Any relation between the CHARACTER of the injury, and the GRAVITY of the shock?
3d. Any death, in YOUR practice, from shock ALONE? - III. Do CICATRICES from Gun-shot wounds furnish YOU information as to the nature of the missile which caused the injury, and the probable ENTRANCE and EXIT of the same?
THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS ARE PROPOSED:
Further particulars on these subjects, with accounts of any remarkable course which balls may have taken in transit through the body, in your own practice, are solicited.
SAM'L P. MOORE,
Pres't Ass'n A & N. Surgeons.
Address: Surg. MIDDLETON MICHEL,
Act. Cor. Secretary,
Box No. 6, Richmond, Va.
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