Gunshot injuries : how they are inflicted : their complications and treatment . Fig. 106.—A recent photograph of Mr. B. C. Barker, showing the scar and depression of skull overthe left frontal region. A. M. School collection. Stevenson refers to the results in sixty unselected cases of per-forating fractures of the skull in the same campaign in which the mor-tality was per cent. As compared to 80 per cent, in the ninety-three cases in the Civil War reported by Otis, the reduction in fatalcases is most marked. The practice of modern times favors operative interference innearly all cases of
Gunshot injuries : how they are inflicted : their complications and treatment . Fig. 106.—A recent photograph of Mr. B. C. Barker, showing the scar and depression of skull overthe left frontal region. A. M. School collection. Stevenson refers to the results in sixty unselected cases of per-forating fractures of the skull in the same campaign in which the mor-tality was per cent. As compared to 80 per cent, in the ninety-three cases in the Civil War reported by Otis, the reduction in fatalcases is most marked. The practice of modern times favors operative interference innearly all cases of gunshot fracture of the skull, and to this practicewe attribute the greater ratio of recoveries. At the same time that GUNSHOT WOUNDS OF THE HEAD, FACE AND NECK 187
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