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Francisco Puig was chief surgeon of the Real Colegio de Cirugia of Barcelona, the institution that did more than any other to turn Spanish surgery into a taught profession. His Tratado gathers the theory and the practice of gunshot wounds as they were understood on the eve of modern antisepsis: the nature of the injury, the extraction of the ball, the treatment of gangrene, the use of the tourniquet.It is a first-hand document of military surgery in the Spanish Enlightenment.This is a faithful print-on-demand facsimile of the 1782 Barcelona edition, reproduced in full from a library copy. The historical text is reproduced without modification; only the format, margins and legibility have been reset for modern printing.