Gunshot injuries : how they are inflicted : their complications and treatment . Fig. 87.—Photograph of outer table ofskull showing contusion without fractureby a conoidal musket ball. Fig. 88.—Inner table of same skull withfracture. A fragment an inch and a half inlength and half an inch broad completely de-tached from vitreous table. Specimen fromCivil War 1861-65. A. M. M. Fig. 89.—Photograph of gun-shot con-tusion outer table of skull without fractureby a conoidal musket ball. Fig. 90.—Inner table same skull showingfracture with depression opposite the point ofcontusion on oute
Gunshot injuries : how they are inflicted : their complications and treatment . Fig. 87.—Photograph of outer table ofskull showing contusion without fractureby a conoidal musket ball. Fig. 88.—Inner table of same skull withfracture. A fragment an inch and a half inlength and half an inch broad completely de-tached from vitreous table. Specimen fromCivil War 1861-65. A. M. M. Fig. 89.—Photograph of gun-shot con-tusion outer table of skull without fractureby a conoidal musket ball. Fig. 90.—Inner table same skull showingfracture with depression opposite the point ofcontusion on outer table. Dura was lacer-ated. Specimen from Civil War, M. M. collection. 170 GUNSHOT WOUNDS For the Russo-Japanese War Follenfant,1 writing of the statisticsin the Kharbine hospitals for 1904, gives a mortality of per cent,in seventy-one gunshot fractures of the cranium with brain lesion,and a mortality of per cent, in 263 fractures without brain the latter suffered brain lesion in a certain percentage of thecases as the mortality is rated too high for this class. In dwelling uponthe rather low mortality, per cent, and per cent., amongthose who suffered with brain injury in these two recent wars, we haveto remember that Kharbine and the English base were far from thefront and that the statistics are culled from a restricted clas
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