Michael Crumplin - Guthries War: A Surgeon of the Peninsula and Waterloo

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Copyright Michael Crumplin, 2010

ISBN 978 1 84884 245 8

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Contents

The Surgeon Dressing of His Wounds. (The National Army Museum)

Private drill dress, 29th (Worcester) Regiment: officer 29th Foot c.1811. (Courtesy of Colonel J. Lowles and the Worcester Regimental Museum)

The city, port and bay of Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1832. (Courtesy of the Library and Archives of Parks of Canada (National Archives))

The main road out of Columbeira (left of the houses) and the gully (to the right of the telegraph pole), up which Colonel Lake led his men. (Authors collection)

Screw tourniquet in place (illustration by Sir Charles Bell) to be compared with Guthries digital compression of the femoral artery: note the left hand of a surgeon compressing the amputation flap. (Authors collection)

A fatal extradural haematoma a collection of blood, inside the skull and compressing the brain but outside the protective dura membrane. (Courtesy of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh)

Preparation for removal of an arm (drawing by Sir Charles Bell). (Authors collection)

Talavera battlefield showing the site of Guthries field hospital. Other dressing stations were situated here around 700 yards behind the lines. (Courtesy of Colonel J. Lowles and the Worcester Regimental Museum)

Ensign Charles Walsh of the 3rd Foot (Buffs) wounded and Lt Matthew Latham, himself later dangerously hurt, concealing a regimental colour during General Latour-Marbourgs cavalry assault at Albuera. (Authors collection)

Graveyard at Elvas, where there are now memorials to the fallen at Badajoz. The small chapel is seen nearby on the right up against the graveyard wall. (Authors collection)

The mine explosion at the great breach during the storming of Cuidad Rodrigo. (Authors collection)

Traumatic limb avulsion; brachial plexus, artery and vein torn across the blood vessels have vasoconstricted (closed down) after the limb had been torn off. (Courtesy Captain Peter Starling and the Army Medical Services Museum)

Musket-ball wound of the shoulder a ball lodged in the head of the humerus (upper arm bone) from Guthries Commentaries. (Authors collection)

Artery damaged by gunshot and although appearing externally intact, the internal structure is occluded by the damaged lining of the blood vessel. (Authors collection)

General the Hon. Sir Galbraith Lowry Cole. (Courtesy Dr J. Cruickshank)

Cerebral hernia and circular horsehair protective ring. (Authors collection)

Staff surgeon John Malings 1796 light cavalry pattern sabre with a capital surgical instrument set. Medical officers at these times were required to carry arms. (Courtesy the Royal College of Surgeons of England)

Trepanation of the cranium for a depressed fracture. The circular saw is applied over a relatively stable area of bone to remove a disc of bone for improved surgical access. (Authors collection)

Results of surgery in Surgeon Guthries General Hospital at Toulouse: original table from the 6th edition of Commentaries. (Authors collection)