‘They had no fever…’ Ambroise Paré (1510–1590) and his method of gunshot wounds management
By the fifteenth-century firearms had spread all over Europe, but surgeons had no idea how to cure gunshot wounds. It was generally accepted that high mortality from gunshot wounds could be explained by some kind of ‘gunshot poison’ entering the body with the bullet, but information and practical ad...
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Science Museum, London
2019-05-01
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| Series: | Science Museum Group Journal |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.sciencemuseum.org.uk/browse/issue-11/ambroise-pare/ |