LECTURE XX._Commentaries on the Surgery of the War in Portugal, Spain, France, and the Netherlands from the battle of Roliça, in 1808, to that of Waterloo, in 1815; with additions relating to those in the Crimea in 1854-55, showing the improvements made during and since that period in the great art and science of surgery on all the subjects to which they relate.

Wounds of the chest most dangerous. Incised wounds require a treatment

essentially distinct from those made by gunshot. Contused wounds.

Auscultation of primary importance; distinctive sounds learned from

it. Symptoms of inflammation. Serous effusion the most important

evil in wounds of the chest. Respiratory murmur; pleuritic effusion.

Symptoms of pneumonia. Pulse. Difficulty of breathing; cough; sputum.

Differences of delirium. Rhoncus crepitans. Effects of inflammation

of the pleura; thickness of pleura in or after chronic inflammation.

Changes in the lung, subsequent on pneumonia, are principally three.

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