British medical journal . become septic and small jpieces of bone pro-truded from it. The skiagram (Fig. 5) showed that themiddle of the fibulahad been reduct 11to small fragment-and a piece , 5cm. square,could be easily seen2 in. above th,ankle-joint. T li ewound after beingdaily irrigated withhydrogen peroxidesolution cleared up,and with the helpof an anaestheticI enlarged thewound and removedthe fragments of thehone, but failed tofind the piece ofshell. The searchwas not undulypressed tor fear ofwidely infecting thetissues of the soldier ap-peared to be making a good recovery
British medical journal . become septic and small jpieces of bone pro-truded from it. The skiagram (Fig. 5) showed that themiddle of the fibulahad been reduct 11to small fragment-and a piece , 5cm. square,could be easily seen2 in. above th,ankle-joint. T li ewound after beingdaily irrigated withhydrogen peroxidesolution cleared up,and with the helpof an anaestheticI enlarged thewound and removedthe fragments of thehone, but failed tofind the piece ofshell. The searchwas not undulypressed tor fear ofwidely infecting thetissues of the soldier ap-peared to be making a good recovery, but twenty-one dayslater I noticed some oedema above the external malleolus;the skin was incised, some pus escaped, and from aloculus, near the malleolus, T removed a big fragmentof copper. Au ordnance officer, who examined it, ex-pressed the opinion that it was a piece of the drivingband of one of the shells ejected by the huge gun namedby our soldiers Black Maria. In cases where tliere is clear evidence that a bullet. Fig. irregularfragment of shell em-bedded in the head ofthe metatarsal bone ofthe big toe.
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