Excerpt from Wounds of the Thorax in War At the present time, it is obviously useless and undesirable to attempt to introduce statistical results or other statements marking out special cases. I have therefore endeavoured to make the account the result Of my own personal experience as well as of those With whom I have been brought into personal contact and I must leave the statistics of these inquiries to be dealt with in full by others when the time has come to collate from many different sources the general results of injuries in the Great War, and these will no doubt Show Wide differences in various theatres. I desire to express my thanks to the Director General of the Naval Medical Service for his permission to publish this short account. Also to Colonel Sir G. H. Makins for much help received from his writ ings and for his kind permission to make use of some of his illustrations, and to Professor Robinson for the same friendly courtesy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.