Category: History - Warfare
Transcriber's Note: Underscores “_” before and after a word or phrase indicate _italics_ in the original text. Small capitals have been converted to SOLID capitals. Old or antiquated spellings have been preserved. On Pg 173, the reference to “plate No. 81” was corrected to “pl...
As the wound was received while the soldier was lying prone, the course of the missile in the body was from above downward, striking the crest of the ilium, on which it was frag...
5. Part 5The wound could have been caused by either a ricocheted rifle bullet or by a deformed shrapnel ball, either projectile being the low velocity of long range. These conditions are...
3. Part 3The course of the bullet in long range was diagonally anteroposterior through the ulnar side of the lower end of the bone, with the wound of entrance on the anterior and the wou...
2. Part 2The course of the bullet was almost tangential to the ramus of the jaw, anteroposteriorly. The slight fragmentation, which is hardly more than a splitting of the bone, with litt...
4. Part 4Infection from clothing carried into the wound is rare, as the fairly high velocity of the bullet causes a spreading of the fibers without division or punched-out section before...
1. Part 1Transcriber's Note: Underscores “_” before and after a word or phrase indicate _italics_ in the original text. Small capitals have been converted to SOLID capitals. Old or antiq...
7. Part 7The metallic particles marking the contact of the ball and the fibula, at the seat of a diagonal fracture, without displacement of fragments, are shown so distinctly that they m...