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CLINICAL observers seem to be generally agreed that there is little relation between the degree of traumatic shock and the severity of the injury by which it is produced. However, the following observations, made during the course of a general study of wound ballistics, suggest that there is a quantitative relation between shock and trauma, even though there may remain some doubt how far the traumatic shock seen in experimental animals is equivalent to the clinical condition of shock observed in man.
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Noble, R. L., and Collip, J. B., Quart. J. Exp. Physiol., 31, 187 (1942).
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UNGAR, G. Effect of Ascorbic Acid on the Survival of Traumatized Animals. Nature 149, 637–638 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149637b0
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