Sir Thomas Longmore, a British army surgeon who served in the Crimea and later taught military surgery, surveys gunshot wounds as they were met in war in the mid-nineteenth century. He traces their history from the first use of gunpowder, describes how musket balls behave in the body, and draws on the Crimean and Schleswig-Holstein campaigns for cases of head wounds and amputations.
A historical document of Victorian battlefield surgery for students of military history, not a guide to treatment. Download the free EPUB.