Gunshot injuries : how they are inflicted : their complications and treatment . the battles of Kirk Kalisse and Lule Burgas,and that 60 per cent, of all those inflicted at Tchaltalaja were by shrap-nel. Other observers2 found the frequency of shrapnel wounds in theConstantinople hospitals as high as 80 per cent. (Figs. 77 to 79). The world war now raging in Europe has given striking examples ofthe character and extent of the lesions that are caused by the modernshrapnel. (Plate C.) WOUNDS FROM GRENADES, BOMBS AND MINES Hand Grenades.—All the observers in the Manchurian campaignmake note of the
Gunshot injuries : how they are inflicted : their complications and treatment . the battles of Kirk Kalisse and Lule Burgas,and that 60 per cent, of all those inflicted at Tchaltalaja were by shrap-nel. Other observers2 found the frequency of shrapnel wounds in theConstantinople hospitals as high as 80 per cent. (Figs. 77 to 79). The world war now raging in Europe has given striking examples ofthe character and extent of the lesions that are caused by the modernshrapnel. (Plate C.) WOUNDS FROM GRENADES, BOMBS AND MINES Hand Grenades.—All the observers in the Manchurian campaignmake note of the frightful wounds inflicted by the hand grenades were first used by the Japanese at the siege of PortArthur, but later they were used on both sides during the remainderof the war. McPherson saw many wounds inflicted by this device 1 Report to the A. G. O., February, 1913, by Major P. C. Fauntleroy, M. C,TJ. S. Army. 2 Lucas-Championierre, J. M. Chirurgien du Croissant Rouge, etc. J. deMed. et de Chirurgie Pratique, No. 24, Dec. 25, 1912. GUNSHOT WOUNDS Plate C. Fig. 1.—This illustrates a shrapnel wound of the right arm with considerable destructionof tissue and loss of substance.
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