Michael Crumplin

Retired surgeon, who studied the Napoleonic Wars for 50 yrs - esp. their medical aspects. I am a curator, author and lecturer and education lead for Waterloo200

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@SurgicalEmotion As a retired general surgeon, I'll be interested in reading this book - cover image ?from Bougery and Jacob - a very French surgical text etc!

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@ZwhiteHistory Take care of yourself, Zack - you've done so well! M.

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@James1940 Good book - and what a relief for Malta. What was the soldier's remedy to prevent sunburn?

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@CobraBall3 @pxthomas93 @militaryhistori In Which We Serve

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@Montezuma1K @pxthomas93 @militaryhistori We should forget the large number of escort carriers, which could supply air cover.

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@surgeonshall Sometimes known as a provang - a word of obscure origin. A Victorian instrument was the penny-catcher, which had a small woollen ball for soaking in opiate at one end and a small coil of iron or copper at the other - for engaging with coins accidentally swallowed by patients.

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@surgeonshall This is an MO or senior nurse's stainless steel pocket set from WW2 or later. Used for trimming wounds, incising abscesses or performing other minor surgical procedures.

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@surgeonshall An ornate piece of steel work. However it was far more cumbersome to use, when compared with the trephine (originally designed by Woodall). With the lighter trephine, one is much closer to the skull, so giving better control and gentler penetration.

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@RCPSGheritage A nice set of capital instruments! As I recall, there are three handles to serve nine instrument attachments - a very compact and efficient creation. Beatty would have required a larger saw for some long bone divisions.

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@surgeonshall @RCPSGheritage This is a thoughtfully-designed instrument. The broader ended clasps fit round the disc of cranial bone to lift it, following trepanning. Narrower, tongued claps at the other side extracted smaller morsels of bone. The upper handle has an projection to elevate bony fragments.

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@1815fletcher @addington_henry Well done, Will - yes that was from the Camberley days! I recall the RAMC HQ has been there, too!
M.

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@addington_henry @1815fletcher Hi, Will,
What's your role in the Staff College?
My father's wooden mounted crest of the SC hangs on my dressing room wall!
best,
M.

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@GloverGareth Well done G. What a rip off. Best, M.

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@WaterlooA No quarter on either side - better seen on canvas than at the time! I've been in some of these houses in the village. The wounded sheltering in cellars were shot out of hand.

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@natashamcenroe Would we rather die of sunstroke and a parched landscape or flooding and rot? A tricky one!

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@natashamcenroe How green is our wonderful land!

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@WaterlooA Although an inevitable termination of Bonaparte's career, the campaign was a united denial of his regime. Whatever benefits Napoleon brought .France, he overreached himself and bled France and some of Europe dry. Waterloo was hardly irrelevant and a military and political coup.

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@jerijerod14 The Regia Navale built vessels with these anti-torpedo bulges.

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@agnesjuliet Please keep me posted! I should be pleased to read about my profession and its practices!!! best wishes,
M.

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@OfLynda @surgeonshall Sets such as these were used in field and general hospitals, but were not taken onto the battle ground. The practice of trephining was used to elevate depressed skull fragments and to control bleeding inside the cranium, since a build up of blood inside the skull could be fatal.