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OF all the many varieties of wounds with which surgery has to deal, incised, contused, lacerated, etc., the most dreaded one is the punctured variety. This is because the inflicting weapon is almost necessarily infected with pathogenic organisms, and because these organisms are therefore implanted in the depths of a long and narrow track, into which antiseptics can be made to penetrate only with considerable difficulty.
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The Septic Problem in War . Nature 99, 48–50 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/099048a0
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