Les armes blanches; leur action et leurs effets vulnérants Les projectiles des armes de guerre; leur action vulnérante Les explosifs, les poudres, les projectiles d'exercice; leur action et leurs effets vulnérants

Abstract

THESE volumes, although their titles are formidable enough, can scarcely be said to exhaust the subject of the means invented by man for the special purpose of destroying his own race. Prof. Nimier, one of the authors, is well known as a writer on military medical subjects, and no doubt he has thought it unnecessary to repeat much of what he has already written on these and cognate subjects. The volumes, however, fill considerable gaps in our own literature. We have few writers in this country whose works stand out prominently as works of importance on the same subjects during the present century. Guthrie and Ballingall are practically the only writers whose contributions to the subject cover the period between the Peninsular and the Crimean Wars. Since then, Longmore's classical work on gunshot injuries was the sole work of reference until a year or two ago, when Stevenson, his successor in the Army Medical School at Netley, brought our knowledge of the injuries likely to be produced by modern fire-arms up to date. On the Continent the system of compulsory military service is responsible for the fact that these subjects excite widespread interest amongst the general and scientific public to a much greater extent than in England; and many important additions have been made to the literature of wounds in war by continental writers within the last few years.

Les armes blanches; leur action et leurs effets vulnérants.

By H. Nimier, Professeur au Val-de-Grâce, and Ed. Laval, medécin aide-major de première classe. Pp. 448. (Paris: Félix Alcan, 1900.)

Les projectiles des armes de guerre; leur action vulnérante.

By the same authors. Pp. 212. (Paris: Félix Alcan, 1899.)

Les explosifs, les poudres, les projectiles d'exercice; leur action et leurs effets vulnérants.

By the same authors. Pp. 192. (Paris: Félix Alcan, 1899.)