. Medical and surgical therapy . ANATOMICAL LESIONS X 7. tion of buildings, but are liberally employed againstthe troops themselves. Revolver-bullets are rarely met with. They arechiefly found in ac-cidental woundscaused by impru-dence. Nothing re-markable is discov-ered as to theirgravity which wasnot known in timeof peace. We mayobserve, however,that they are bulletsof large cahbre ( 75 mm.), and ofgreatinitial swiftness. Fragments of shellsare now found tobe the usual causeof the wounds we meet with. Their size is veryvariable, ranging from that of a grain of corn toa large thumb, but
. Medical and surgical therapy . ANATOMICAL LESIONS X 7. tion of buildings, but are liberally employed againstthe troops themselves. Revolver-bullets are rarely met with. They arechiefly found in ac-cidental woundscaused by impru-dence. Nothing re-markable is discov-ered as to theirgravity which wasnot known in timeof peace. We mayobserve, however,that they are bulletsof large cahbre ( 75 mm.), and ofgreatinitial swiftness. Fragments of shellsare now found tobe the usual causeof the wounds we meet with. Their size is veryvariable, ranging from that of a grain of corn toa large thumb, but their surface is always rough,with sharp angles, finely jagged or fringed (Figs. 19and 46), and they are possessed of a force of pene-tration that varies according to the distance at whichthe shell has burst. Their lesions are rendered muchmore harmful in that they nearly always drag inwith them pieces of clothing, and the septic nature ofthese pieces aggravates the infections caused bythe contents of the abdominal viscera. One haseven observ^ed cases
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