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Title: Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900
Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects
of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre

Author: George Henry Makins

Release Date: May 3, 2007 [EBook #21280]

Language: English

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SURGICAL EXPERIENCES

IN

SOUTH AFRICA

1899-1900

BEING MAINLY A CLINICAL STUDY OF THE NATURE AND EFFECTS OF INJURIES
PRODUCED BY BULLETS OF SMALL CALIBRE

BY

GEORGE HENRY MAKINS, F.R.C.S.

SURGEON TO ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL, LONDON
JOINT LECTURER ON SURGERY IN THE MEDICAL SCHOOL OF ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL
MEMBER OF THE COURT OF EXAMINERS OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF
SURGEONS OF ENGLAND, AND LATE ONE OF THE CONSULTING SURGEONS
TO THE SOUTH AFRICAN FIELD FORCE

LONDON
SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 WATERLOO PLACE
1901

TO

SURGEON-GENERAL W. D. WILSON

PRINCIPAL MEDICAL OFFICER TO THE SOUTH AFRICAN FIELD FORCE

THE MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS
EMPLOYED IN SOUTH AFRICA

AND TO THE

CIVIL SURGEONS TEMPORARILY ATTACHED TO THAT CORPS

These Experiences are Dedicated

AS AN EXPRESSION OF APPRECIATION
OF THE INVARIABLE KINDNESS AND SYMPATHY EXTENDED
TO THE AUTHOR
WITHOUT WHICH THE BOOK COULD NOT
HAVE BEEN WRITTEN

PREFACE

A word of explanation is perhaps necessary as to the form in which these
experiences have been put together. The matter was originally collected
with the object of sending a series of articles to the _British Medical
Journal_. Various circumstances, however, of which the chief was the
feeling that extending experience altered in many cases the views
adopted at first sight, prevented the original intention from being
carried into execution, and the articles, considerably expanded, are now
publi