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| Keywords: Watercolour, wounded soldier at Waterloo Wellcome L0022548.jpg Artwork Soldier suffering from head wound and shock inscribed Waterloo This is one of a series of watercolours by the surgeon Charles Bell 1774-1842 of wounded soldiers from the battle of Waterloo Bell had hurried from London to Brussels in June 1815 to assist in treating the wounded; at the same time he filled a sketchbook with interesting cases which were subsequently worked up as watercolour paintings for teaching purposes This man had received a very serious gunshot wound to the skull causing extrusion of brain tissue The picture clearly shows the cross-shaped surgical cut of the skin around the wound made in order to remove damaged bone fragments Unfortunately such an injury provided an avenue for infection of the central nervous system which surgeons at the time were powerless to prevent Sure enough this patient died six days after Bell sketched him His staring eyes and flushed appearance are indicative of meningeal irritation or inflammation of the lining of the brain <p>Archives Manuscripts<br> Keywords waterloo; Charles Bell Library reference RAMC 95/4 Photo number L0022548 object history exhibition history credit line Wellcome Images http //wellcomeimages org/indexplus/obf_images/df/20/6651c497f7d68aebd5ace15b32fd jpg Gallery http //wellcomeimages org/indexplus/image/L0022548 html accession number PD-old-auto-1923 1842 Images uploaded by Fæ Wellcome L0022548 jpg Works by Charles Bell Wounded at Waterloo | ||||
