Gunshot injuries : how they are inflicted : their complications and treatment . Fig. 3.—High-explosive shell wound of right shoulder attended with much comminution of upperhalf of right humerus. Larger blood-vessels and nerves A. M. Fauntleroy, op. cit. Facing page 103. CHARACTERISTIC LESIONS CAUSED BY PROJECTILES 103 But more recently still we have in the present European war strikingexamples of the mutilating effects of fragments from modern shellfire on the field of battle. (Plate B.) Pom-pom Shell.—Wounds from this projectile or its fragmentsdo not differ from injuries inflicte
Gunshot injuries : how they are inflicted : their complications and treatment . Fig. 3.—High-explosive shell wound of right shoulder attended with much comminution of upperhalf of right humerus. Larger blood-vessels and nerves A. M. Fauntleroy, op. cit. Facing page 103. CHARACTERISTIC LESIONS CAUSED BY PROJECTILES 103 But more recently still we have in the present European war strikingexamples of the mutilating effects of fragments from modern shellfire on the field of battle. (Plate B.) Pom-pom Shell.—Wounds from this projectile or its fragmentsdo not differ from injuries inflicted by the larger shell. The shellis fired from the Maxim automatic gun at intervals of a few was first used in the Boer War. Makins states that the effect wasprincipally a moral one, due to continuous firing of the gun and theunpleasant noise which it made. The shell failed to explode at timesand as it was sufficiently small, the whole projectile was known toperforate the body in a number of cases. Wounds by Projectiles from Case Shot, Canister and Shrapnel.—
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