An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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GRAY, Henry McIlree Williamson

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Treatment of gunshot wounds by excision and primary suture.

Brit. med. J., 2, 317, 1915.

Gray revived débridement of wounds, with primary suture. This procedure has been traditionally credited to Larrey and Desault. Larrey (No. 2160) employed excision and primary suture only for treatment of wounds of the mouth which might otherwise result in a salivary fistula. However, Larrey, and his predecessor, Desault, “both treated extremity wounds by incision, as needed, to relieve tissue tension and establish free wound drainage, not by wound excision and primary suture” (Fackler).



Subjects: MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE, MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE › World War I, SURGERY: General › Wound Healing