The American journal of the medical sciences (1827)
[Thorofare, N.J., etc.] Charles B. Slack [etc.] · leaf 125
ed was consequently less. The posterior tibial was preserved intact. Four ligatures in all were applied to bleeding orifices. The edges were united by leaden sutures, and a dry dressing was used with the extending weight. The wound united rapidly, having suppurated very little. The os calcis… … on the 6th. The wound did not appear at first to be a serious one, and our attention was not called to it until some time after his admission, when the foot and ankle had become very much swollen and inflamed. On probing the wound it was found that the ball had passed through the astragalus, and…
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