Treatment of gunshot wounds in general 51 Provisional dressing recommended 51 Surgeon’s first duty 52 Position of patient for examination 53 Instruments for conducting examination 54 Views respecting enlargement of the external orifice 54 Instruments for extracting balls 56 Means to be employed for readjusting lacerated wounds 59 Constitutional treatment 61 Progress of cure 62 GUNSHOT WOUNDS IN SPECIAL REGIONS OF THE BODY. GUNSHOT WOUNDS OF THE HEAD. Observations on 63 Wounds of the scalp and pericranium 65 Wounds complicated with fracture, but without depression on the cerebrum 67 Fissured fracture 68 Wounds complicated with fracture and depression on the cerebrum 69 Wounds with penetration of the cerebrum 70 Treatment 71 Use of the trephine 71 Opinions concerning 72 GUNSHOT WOUNDS OF THE SPINE. Statistics of 75 Vertebral column and spinal cord 76 GUNSHOT WOUNDS OF THE FACE. General observations on 77 Treatment 78 GUNSHOT WOUNDS OF THE CHEST. Comparison with other wounds 80 Non–penetrating 81 Penetrating 82 Signs indicating 83 Hemorrhage from 83 Indications of the lung being penetrated 84 Treatment 85 Wounds of the heart 89 GUNSHOT WOUNDS OF THE NECK. Abstract of 90 GUNSHOT WOUNDS OF THE ABDOMEN. Observations on 93 Non–penetrating 94 Penetrating 94 Of the diaphragm 99 Fatality of 99