. The principles and practice of surgery. Light Bullet Forceps, recommended by the author. The truth is, that forceps of any kind are rarely needed in the extrac-tion of balls ; and that in most of the cases in which they are needed, apair of common dressing forceps are sufficient. For exceptional cases,however, there may be required a pair of long, slender forceps, serratedat their extremities, about 7\ inches in length, and which will occupy aslittle space as possible in the wound. These will serve for the extraction Fig. 23. =gVW^^. Strong Bullet Forceps, recommended by the author. of balls
. The principles and practice of surgery. Light Bullet Forceps, recommended by the author. The truth is, that forceps of any kind are rarely needed in the extrac-tion of balls ; and that in most of the cases in which they are needed, apair of common dressing forceps are sufficient. For exceptional cases,however, there may be required a pair of long, slender forceps, serratedat their extremities, about 7\ inches in length, and which will occupy aslittle space as possible in the wound. These will serve for the extraction Fig. 23. =gVW^^. Strong Bullet Forceps, recommended by the author. of balls lying deep in the track of a wound, and not tightly impactedin bone or other tissues. For the extraction of balls lodged in bonethere may be also occasionally needed forceps of greater size and 1 Gelisch. Pacific Medical and Surgical Journal, October, 1S66. 2 De Wilde. Medical Times and Gazette. 1867. 100 GUNSHOT WOUNDS. strength; and for this purpose I have had constructed forceps of thesame length as the preceding, with strong blades, straight and serratedalso at the extremities, the pivot being placed near the distal extremityof the instrument to increase its power of prehension. Buckshot, with all the varieties of small shot, seldom penetrate deep-ly unless at very short range. They rarely fracture or even penetrate abone ; yet they do occasionally. They are often found, however, com-pletely flattened upon the surface of the bone, lying buried in the peri-osteum, so that they occasion no sensible elevation of the surface a
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