" On account of the very indifferent success of amputations of the thitrh, a trial was made of resection of portions of the shaft of the bone; but no si attended the experiment, every case, without exception, having proved fatal where this was attempted." There were only 7 sword and lance wounds received after April 1, lK. r >f>, and 1 death therefrom; 2 were of the head, and 1 died; 1 of the face, 1 of the perinajum, 1 of the back, and 2 of the lower extremities. During the saimperiod, 36 bayonet wounds were received, and four died therefrom; 1 was of the head, and was fatal; of the face; of the chest, 2 of which were mortal; 2 were of the abdomen; 2 of the back; 3 of the upper and 13 of the lower extremity; 1 had numerous such wounds; and in 2 the site u a> not specified.
Among the officers during the war, 3 sword and lance wouml., 2 bayonet wounds of the abdomen, and 8 of the lower extremity are reported with no fatal result therefrom. The following table of cases of amputation and resection in officers daring ir. These numbers were not included in those given in Chapter which referred merely to the men. Return showing the number and results of cases treated from the commencement to the end of the war. (Commissioned officers only.) 4;u Tilt: CRIMEAN WAR. treatment, aiul performed at Scutari during the portion of the first period named therein, beyond which time it is regretted that this distinctive table was not kept up, but it is known that very few operations indeed were performed there after the end of November.
" The ratio of mortality shown in it from primary operations appears very disproportionately small, from the number received for treatment having been reduced, first by deaths in the field hospitals, and secondly by deaths on board ship, during the passage to the Bosphorus; the particulars of which for the individual operations, as before stated, cannot now be arrived at, but the rate of mortality, upon the gross total of primary operations performed, appears slightly to have exceeded 50 per cent., showing that what was advanced in the first section of this report, as the general opinion among the army medical officers, as to the cases of the first period having suffered severely by carriage in the Crimea and on the voyage to the secondary hospitals, was well-founded; as primary operations in the second period only show a mortality of 35 per cent, (operations on fingers and toes being excluded in both).
The ratio in secondary amputations appears to have been on the whole nearly the same as obtained in the series of the second period, as recorded on the preceding page.' Return of the number and results of amputations and resections treated in the AITKNIMX. It seems that amputation at th hours. a the surgical practice of the late war, it may not be improper number of wounds and injuries treated, as set forth i il Return A of Sick and Wounded, exceeds very considerably that the former (among non-commissioned officers and privates) being 18,283; the r 1 only.
This apparent discrepancy arises from the general return embracing all admissions for mechanical injuries, including from horses, accie kept tor the reception of the wounded of a large army engaged in active field oper while it is equally plain that much under;". ould not be safe.