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bladder. There may be internal bleeding, not at once detected, but manifested some hours
afterward by general symptoms of haemorrhage. Many injuries are received where bones are
broken but in which the full extent of the damage may not be apparent until X-ray films are
made. This is mostly true of some fractures of the spine. In all of these different classes of
injury, for checking bleeding, and for restoration of lacerated tissues and complicated fractures
to something like their normal continuity, emergency operations may be required. Many
injuries may result in serious loss of substance, amputation will be in store for some, and
devitalisation of tissue, especially bone, may cause chronic suppuration which will necessitate
time-consuming and wide reparative and plastic surgery.
19. Which of the following is correct?
a) If two world wars hadn't been fought; traumatic surgery
wouldn't have been known.
b) All injuries indicate that there are broken bones.
c) "Foreign bodies" are the dead bodies of the enemy
soldiers.
d)
Unless X-ray films are taken, it is difficult to tell the
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