Gunshot injuries : how they are inflicted : their complications and treatment . e anniversary of our National Independence, and abroad theblank ammunition wounds occur about the time of the army maneu-vers, in the sham battles which accompany these exercises. Wounds from Shot-guns.—The characteristic features of woundsinflicted by small shot from the class of weapons known as shot-gunsdiffer materially with the distance from the gun at the time of dis-charge, the size of the shot, the amount of propellant, the manner ofloading or the kind of cartridge. The cone of dispersion made by theshot is
Gunshot injuries : how they are inflicted : their complications and treatment . e anniversary of our National Independence, and abroad theblank ammunition wounds occur about the time of the army maneu-vers, in the sham battles which accompany these exercises. Wounds from Shot-guns.—The characteristic features of woundsinflicted by small shot from the class of weapons known as shot-gunsdiffer materially with the distance from the gun at the time of dis-charge, the size of the shot, the amount of propellant, the manner ofloading or the kind of cartridge. The cone of dispersion made by theshot is influenced naturally by all of the foregoing, viz., the distance,size and number of the shot, the amount of propellant, etc. Close-range shots are marked by total destruction of tissues, laceration, 112 GUNSHOT WOUNDS hematoma and fracture of bone with extensive comminution, and by-perforation and lodgment of individual pellets (Figs. 81 to 84). Gunshot Wounds from Small Target and Flobert Rifles.—The boreof these weapons is generally .22 to .32 caliber. The projectiles. Fig. 82.—Radiograph showing lodged shot in upper thigh. Wounded accidentally by shot-gun within distance of 4 ft. After the surgeons had removed all missiles in sight, over 90 pelletswere revealed by X-ray. Army Medical School collection. may be round, or elongated, the latter being of two sizes, the long andshort. The weight of the projectile of the .22 caliber is about 15grains, that of the latter about 60 grains. The velocity of the U. target rifle ammunition is 969 For a very interesting fatalcase of gunshot injury of the head by the .22 caliber target rifle gener-ally used in this country see Chapter VI, page, 180. CHARACTERISTIC LESIONS CAUSED BY PROJECTILES 113 Doepner1 gives some very interesting cases of fatal injury from theprojectile of the Flobert rifle (Fig. 85). Fig. A, p. 113, is a deformedFlobert rifle bullet which passed through the frontal bone of a girlnine years old, and p
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