Guthrie's War: A Surgeon of the Peninsula and Waterloo by Michael Crumplin

Author:Michael Crumplin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Bisac Code 1: HIS037060
ISBN: eBook ISBN: 9781844685585
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2010-08-19T00:00:00+00:00

Major, the Hon. Hercules Packenham, assistant adjutant-general of the 7th Foot, was wounded at the breach by a musket ball which

deprived him of the use of the thumb and little finger, and partially of the hand; and by another which struck him on the right iliac region passing in just below Poupart’s ligament [i.e. just below the groin], and outwardly through the ilium [i.e. traversing the pelvic bone]. Eight pieces of bone came away at Elvas, and eleven more [with the chronic infection], in 1813, in London. He went to Barège [in the Hautes-Pyrénées] in 1814–15–16–17, with the hope that the ball might be loosened and removed, but in vain. A small quantity of inoffensive glutinous [thick mucous-like substance] matter, sometimes streaked with blood, was discharged occasionally from the seat of injury.34

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