Modern surgery, general and operative . Figs. 141, 142.—Operative stages shown in a series of two photographs of the same case (Fauntleroy, Ibid.). Grenades.—These weapons are small, explosive shells which are used largelyin trench fighting. Some are thrown by hand, some are projected by a are exploded by a fuse, some by percussion. On explosion the shell Base Hospital (Stationary Hospital of the English Army) 325 breaks into numerous pieces. Grenade wounds are torn and contused, thefragments of the casing lodge in the tissues and are apt to carry in dirt and oftenparticles of cloth
Modern surgery, general and operative . Figs. 141, 142.—Operative stages shown in a series of two photographs of the same case (Fauntleroy, Ibid.). Grenades.—These weapons are small, explosive shells which are used largelyin trench fighting. Some are thrown by hand, some are projected by a are exploded by a fuse, some by percussion. On explosion the shell Base Hospital (Stationary Hospital of the English Army) 325 breaks into numerous pieces. Grenade wounds are torn and contused, thefragments of the casing lodge in the tissues and are apt to carry in dirt and oftenparticles of clothing. All such wounds are infected. Other bombs that are used are aerial bombs, some of which are incendiary,others of which are explosive—and trench mortar bombs, each composed of avery thin metallic casing and containing a large charge of high mortar bombs are used at close range, 350 yards or less. Position and Functions in Battle of Hospitals, Military OflBcers, etc.—(SeeCol. T. H. Goodwin, in the Military S
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