Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Excision of the Knee-Joint, Vol. 1
The late Dr John Brown, in his Notes on the Surgery of the Indian Campaign of 1857-58, remarks: If there is a class of cases in military practice which demands that the knife should follow the wound, it is this class in which the knee-joint is injured by a musket ball. Occasional recoveries do not affect the question at all; for operative measures should always be had recourse to when there is no chance of recovery without them; and that chance is too remote to be considered in comparison with the greater chance of a fatal result in this form of injury. The Operation of resection of the joint, while still doubtful in most cases of disease, seems to me to be applicable to some of the cases of gunshot injury of the knee, provided there be little injury to the bones, and the camp be a standing one; in marching armies the Operation is decidedly inadmissible.
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