Modern surgery, general and operative . y are more humane thanwere the buUets of the Snider or the Martini-Henry rifle. The present weapon of theUnited States Army will produce wounds which will resemble the woundsmade by the deformable bullets whose use is forbidden in civilized warfare(Borden, in Keens Surgery, vol. vi). The Resistance Encountered.—If energy is great (as at close range) anda very resistant tissue is struck (bone), dreadful injury may be inflicted,but if a tissue with little resistance is struck but little damage may be a long range the energy of the bullet is so less
Modern surgery, general and operative . y are more humane thanwere the buUets of the Snider or the Martini-Henry rifle. The present weapon of theUnited States Army will produce wounds which will resemble the woundsmade by the deformable bullets whose use is forbidden in civilized warfare(Borden, in Keens Surgery, vol. vi). The Resistance Encountered.—If energy is great (as at close range) anda very resistant tissue is struck (bone), dreadful injury may be inflicted,but if a tissue with little resistance is struck but little damage may be a long range the energy of the bullet is so lessened that the danger to re-sistant tissue will be much less; whereas injury of soft parts may be much thesame as at closer range. The Nature of the Wounds Inflicted by the Small Projectile.—The effect oflessening the size of the bullet is to decrease its wounding power, because,other things being equal, the larger the bullet, the greater its wounding many instances the modern bullet will make a clear track, without lacera-. Fig. 129.—Mauser bullet-wound ofchest: a, Wound of entrance; b, pointwhere bullet was extracted (MajorCharles F. Kieger, U. S. A.). Wounds in War Inflicted bv Rifle-bullets 289 tion or comminution. It was thought, as has been stated, that this projectilewould prove himiane, that it would kiU comparatively few, and that thewotmded would receive injiuries which would incapacitate them, but from whichmost of them woifld subsequently recover. Recent wars have indicatedthat at a range of over 1500 yards the bullet, as a rule, penetrates cleanlv,
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