TABLE This Table, showing the number of Deaths from all causes, and total numbe statician, although not strid ENGLISH Officers. 3,905' 86 0:09 | 2:20 | 157 0:16 4:02 143 0.15 34 Men ... 90,054 2,598 | 2:7 | 2.88 1,761 | 1.87| 1.95 16,155 17:18 17 Total. . 93,959 2,684 2.76 1,918 2.0 16,298 1750 -- - ------- --325 0.10 115 0:03 Men ..........7,182 2:32 3,860 1.25 ! Total, 309,268 7,507 2:42 3,981 1.20 57,741 TRENCH Officers . .,.'' 18.67 TABLE III. Officers. Men. 3.50 1:16 All chest wounds to total number wounded ..) 0.50 trating or not ............, ounded, throughout the Crimean War, is given as interesting information to the opertaining to the subject of the Treatise. wa circumstances similar to those in which the army Head. Abdomen. Field .... 1 in 10 ... 1 in 20 .... 1 in 40 When the substance of the lung is actually wounded, recovery is not so frequent as many suppose. The ancients were less sanguine in this matter than are the moderns. Galen (lib. v, cap. 26) pronounces deep wounds of the lungs fatal. Arceus *** *1 FAITSE crizion of a most 2] our minion , 151, 109 Toreirenste deep breast 116, , W al those words made by 21,1644, 41, misal” ; and at page 130, - many 5* *46,462 Han kniven of gun-shots in the breast, *;,5, Barwy Gdy retinu that are shot in the langs" Afar tong tuilika that lang wounds are very fatal. fara cb wartz, expresses even a stronger opifrififr nl, waga 114 of his Beiträge zur Lehre von den Bohuriwwen. John Pagaultii says, at page 52: " Vraimern, antar qua: pulmonibus accidunt, ideo propratne funt dificillima, imo magna ex parte in. ten nefrin brilia.” Planck says: “ Magna pulmonis vulnie.pm ahalute, lethalia sunt.” But, as it seems, writegut are not agreed on this point, and it is w tabeliaked, that wounds at or near the apex cyf the larg sro more likely to be attended with tinderwertirable results than wounds at the base of the lung, partly from the more profuse hæmorrhage, sond partly from the lens casy exit for blood. There are on the other hand, cases in which rewwvery taken place when the substance of the tinnig wire wondeut. A caso in noted in the first voltant of the Winburgh Maulical Journal, page 360 : l Anantti Wi8 atabilmed in a drunken brawl, and a portion of the lung protrudod, bocame stranguIntoll, und wie oull ofl. No urgent symptoms apprewed it any period, and recovery was perfect.” 11onent staten, at mge 390), of his Military Surpory"love seen many wounds of the thorax, both from pike, sabre and gun-shot, do well ultimately.” Dr. Gregory says, that “ of twenty. six wounds of the thorax received at the battle near Quebec, two only were fatal.” Dr. Houston concludes, “all wounds penetrating the cavity of the thorax, so as to admit air, are not certainly, nor instantly, fatal, unless their apertures exceed that of the glottis." John Bell, at page 297, writes, Wounds of the substance of the lungs are far from being mortal.” Guyon gives thirty-nine cases of cure (?). Bernhardo Suevo, Ruysch, Tulpius, Fallopius, Houstius, Arcæus, Schenkius, and Dufouart, give cases of cure. On these points, I am able to supply the following statistical details : TABLE IV. TO TOTAL NUMBER WOUNDED. Percentage of all chest wounds to total number wounded ..... Percentage of actual lung wound to total number wounded .... Mortality of all chest wounds to total number wounded ...................: Mortality of actual lung wound to total num-) ber wounded .............. TO TOTAL STRENGTH. Percentage of all chest wounds ........ | Ditto of actual lung wounds ... Mortality of all chest wounds ........ Ditto of actual lung wound ..... 1.07 474 0:54 0:17 0.14 0:13 * Te of ch 32 mher ought properly to be added 153, being the number eived during the first period of the war, of which ave died, making a grand total of 627; but as the TULE V. Showing the Vumber y Chest Finanuts on tre reusions rumet, Inui from the Authorities proted, with the permentuye af Serths o Vurutert. The Director-General's Receris price to Crimean War. Canton .... Schytz. Total wounded, 227 .... It is more than probable that many of the cases were wounds of the pleura only, and that the alleged wonderful recoveries from actual wounds of data for the first period of the war is uncertain, the number has not been admitted into the calculations. * De Lambalo and Baudeus. |