Gunshot Injuries: How They Are Inflicted, Their Complications and Treatment

Lancer Militaria, 1991. 2nd Revised Ed. Hardcover. Very Good/No dustjacket. 9x5x1. In Very Good+ condition. No dustjacket as issued. A facsimile reprint of the 1916 original. Louis Anatole La Garde (April 15, 1849 – March 7, 1920), was a Colonel in the U. S. Army Medical Corps. He is best remembered for his work on wound infections from missiles and on the effects of high-velocity bullets upon the human body. He joined the Association of Military Surgeons in 1892, and contributed papers to its meetings. In 1902 on invitation from the College of Physicians of Philadelphia he delivered the Mutter lecture on Poisoned Wounds by the Implements of Warfare. In the same year be contributed the articles on Gunshot Wounds and Gangrene to the Reference Handbook of Medical Sciences. Following his retirement La Garde made his home in Washington and set to work upon his book Gunshot Injuries: How they are Inflicted, their Complications and Treatment, which was published in 1911, with a second edition in 1916. During World War I he was called back to active duty in the office of The Surgeon General and among other duties lectured on treatment of gunshot wounds at various medical training camps.