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Journ. pract. Heilk., 48/1-6. - Berlin, Gedruckt und verlegt bei G. Reimer, Januar, 1819, 8°, 128; 127, 1; 126, (12), 144, 124, (4) 136 pp., 1 gestochene Tafel, Pappband d. Zeit mit marmor. Papier überzogen. Erste deutsche Ausgabe des "Case of Gunshot Wound of the Heart. By John H. Fuge, Esq. Member of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh." (Edinb Med Surg J. 1818 Apr 1;14(54):129-132.) "Throughout medical history some of the greatest advances in surgical knowledge have been made in the theatre of war. Military surgeons encountered injuries so numerous and terrible that they were tested to the limits of their ingenuity, devising new therapeutic approaches if existing techniques proved unequal to their needs. During the Napoleonic Wars, for instance, the Frenchman Dominique Larrey devised the modern process of triage, prioritising casualties according to the urgency of their condition, and introduced ambulances to the battlefield. His British counterpart George Guthrie, meanwhile, introduced new treatments for gunshot wounds of the legs - in particular, early amputation - that drastically reduced mortality. But one of the most celebrated cases of that conflict was one in which the surgeon did nothing at all. At the Battle of Corunna in northern Spain in January 1809, a private in the Queen's Royals, Samuel Evens, was shot in the chest. His comrades carried him off the battlefield and he was put on a troopship back to England. It was crowded with wounded and ill soldiers and the only treatment he received was a plaster, but he was still in a fair condition when taken to hospital in Plymouth a few days later. Evens told the Scottish doctor who examined him, John Fuge, that a musket ball was still lodged in his chest, and begged him to remove it, saying that he was sure it was in easy reach. Fuge inserted a probe into the wound, but it was so deep that the entire instrument disappeared into it, and he abandoned the attempt. Three days later Evens died. His body, when Dr Fuge examined it, contained a huge surprise. The musket ball had ripped through the wall of the heart, leaving an inch-long tear, and had lacerated one of the heart valves. This was a catastrophic injury, and yet the soldier had lived for a fortnight after receiving it. Fuge's report of the case, illustrated by an engraving of the preserved heart in a jar, was widely circulated in Europe and America - graphic evidence of the resilience of an organ hitherto believed to be uniquely fragile" Thomas Morris, The Matter of the Heart: A History of the Heart in Eleven Operations.