War Surgery - From Firing Line to Base: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

War Surgery - From Firing Line to Base, credited to Basil Hughes and Henry Stanley Banks, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of War Surgery - From Firing Line to Base by Basil Hughes and H. Stanley Banks. Read by LibriVox Volunteers One of the first volumes dedicated to systematized medical treatment of soldiers in modern warfare, including a chapter on specific care for airmen, by British doctors who served on the front lines of WWI. Graphic descriptions (and images in the source book) of war wounds are not for the weak of heart. - Summary by BellonaTimes

Recording facts

• Recording title: War Surgery - From Firing Line to Base
• Author credits: Basil Hughes and Henry Stanley Banks
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 40
• Listed recording duration: 24:33:23

Catalogue topics

• non-fiction
• WWI
• medical
• war surgery
• text-book

Opening tracks: first 24 of 40

1. 00 - Preface and Introduction — 9:08
2. 01 - Ch 1 - Introductory — 7:57
3. 02 - Ch 2 - General Classification of Wounds — 42:07
4. 03 - Ch 3 - General Nature of Wounds — 24:32
5. 04 - Ch 4 - The Bacteria of Wounds, Pt I — 48:20
6. 05 - Ch 4, The Bacteria of Wounds, Pt II — 44:46
7. 06 - Ch 4, The Bacteria of Wounds, Pt III — 32:40
8. 07 - Ch 4, The Bacteria of Wounds, Appendix — 26:18
9. 08 - Ch 5 - Wound Infection — 50:37
10. 09 - Ch 6 - Wound Infection (continued), Pt I — 1:06:18
11. 10 - Ch 6 - Wound Infection (continued), Pt II — 50:08
12. 11 - Ch 6 - Wound Infection (continued), Pt III — 30:23
13. 12 - Ch 7 - General Complications of Wounds I, Pt I — 48:51
14. 13 - Ch 7 - General Complications of Wounds 1, Pt II — 39:16
15. 14 - Ch 8 - General Complications of Wounds II — 19:31
16. 15 - Ch 9 - General Complications of Wounds III — 32:17
17. 16 - Ch 10 - Septicemia — 49:17
18. 17 - Ch 11 - Effects of Climate, etc — 38:32
19. 18 - Ch 12 - Antiseptics — 42:21
20. 19 - Ch 13 - General Treatment of Gunshot Wounds I — 43:14
21. 20 - Ch 14 - General Treatment of Gunshot Wounds II, Pt I — 51:55
22. 21 - Ch 14 - General Treatment of Gunshot Wounds II, Pt II — 44:25
23. 22 - Ch 15 - General Treatment of Gunshot Wounds III — 50:30
24. 23 - Ch 16 - Nursing on Active Service — 14:03

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