Gunshot injuries : how they are inflicted : their complications and treatment . rns persecond as it issues from the weapon. The point blank range firingstanding is yards. The center of gravity of this bullet is dis-posed well toward its base. Experiments which we have made oncadavers demonstrate that the bullet is poorly balanced and that theslightest amount of resistance will cause it to turn on its short resistance in the hip-joint, the chest, and abdominal walls causedthe bullet to turn in nearly every instance, as shown by keyholing inthe head of barrels of sawdust immediate
Gunshot injuries : how they are inflicted : their complications and treatment . rns persecond as it issues from the weapon. The point blank range firingstanding is yards. The center of gravity of this bullet is dis-posed well toward its base. Experiments which we have made oncadavers demonstrate that the bullet is poorly balanced and that theslightest amount of resistance will cause it to turn on its short resistance in the hip-joint, the chest, and abdominal walls causedthe bullet to turn in nearly every instance, as shown by keyholing inthe head of barrels of sawdust immediately behind the target, and the 58 GUNSHOT WOUNDS resulting wounds were comparable to those inflicted by an expandingbullet. (See Figs. 34 and 35.) Doebbelin1 reports probably the first case of a wound by the Sbullet, which corresponds to our pointed bullet, in a soldier who wasshot twice in the back, by a sentinel at 25 meters distance, as he wasattempting to escape. There were two wounds of entrance about thesize of a lead pencil. The first was located opposite the tenth rib. Fig. 34.—Experimental shot in cadaver. Keyholing of pointed bullet in blotting paper behindtarget after going through hip-joint at a simulated range of 100 yards. near the right axillary line; the second was located 9 cm. to the rightof the base of the coccyx. The wounds of exit were both large. Theupper being about the size of a fifty-cent piece on the line of the rightnipple, shattering the eighth rib, making a cavity at the point of frac-ture the size of a fist. The lung was uninjured. Wound of exitcontained splinters of bone. The lower wound of exit was the size ofa silver dollar containing bone splinters and a fragment of the bulletwhich was located 4 cm. below the crest of the right ilium near theanterior superior spine. After opening the abdomen the diaphragmwas found lacerated from its attachment to the anterior wall of the 1 Deutsche Mil. Aertztl. Ztschr., Berlin, 1906, XXXV, 625-628. CHAEACTERI
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