Gunshot injuries : how they are inflicted : their complications and treatment . Fig. 2.—Shrapnel wound of face with multiple fracture of lower jaw and considerable loss of A. M: Fauntleroy, op. cit. Facing page 108. CHARACTERISTIC LESIONS CAUSED BY PROJECTILES 109 and they were difficult to treat satisfactorily. The wounds weremultiple. The injuries were often caused by the shattering effects ofpyroxylin gas. Parts were completely carried away or so damagedas to require amputation. Another class of wounds was caused bystrips of the casing. These were deep, lacerated wounds, leav
Gunshot injuries : how they are inflicted : their complications and treatment . Fig. 2.—Shrapnel wound of face with multiple fracture of lower jaw and considerable loss of A. M: Fauntleroy, op. cit. Facing page 108. CHARACTERISTIC LESIONS CAUSED BY PROJECTILES 109 and they were difficult to treat satisfactorily. The wounds weremultiple. The injuries were often caused by the shattering effects ofpyroxylin gas. Parts were completely carried away or so damagedas to require amputation. Another class of wounds was caused bystrips of the casing. These were deep, lacerated wounds, leaving uglyscars and causing much disfigurement when the face was wounds were at first of a deep yellow color, the wounded sufferedgreat pain, which persisted long after the wound had commenced toheal. Fig. Fig. SO,—Wound produced by explosion of hand grenade, Russo-Japanese War. (Lynch.) Some of the wounds caused by the explosion of the grenades aredescribed as very small and numerous, due to the lodgment of metallicparticles. In addition to the physical injuries mentioned the worsteffects of the explosion were moral. Only the best seasoned troopsstood the fire. Wounds from Bombs and Mines.—The wounds produced bybombs are similar to those arising from the high explosives alreadyreferred to. The injuries from terrestrial mines are also similar, withthe addition of the lodgment of foreign bodies in the wounds, composedof gravel, dirt, and splinters of wood. The latter came from the boxesin which the explosive is buried beneath the surface. Such wounds 110 GUNSHOT WOUNDS are prone to develop the virulent infections arising from the bacillusaerogenes capsulatus and the bacillus of tetanus. Wounds from Pistols and Revolvers.—Our remarks upon thesubject of the stopping power of pistols
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