BULLET WOUNDS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1642, 8 January 1913, Page 3

BULLET WOUNDS.

EFFECT OF MODERN RIFLE FIRE. Attention is drawn by :ho .Vienna correspondent of the "Lancet to the rapulity of healing and ilia -aseptic condition of even' the most , dangerous injnries ,in ; flitted by the modern rifle bullets. en > lie writes, "shot through the body' by bullets which penetrate the-liver, the Inns, the spleen, and the intestinM, recovered, after a fortnight or to without much evidence of ultimate harm..; . The modern bullet is'rendered aseptic by the enormous licat^of. Hie .burning powder, and it hardly ever shatters long bones, so that there were -very few amputationsH>nly. two in .670. caps-and only 20 instances in ■; which, plastcr-sf-l aris, bandages were necessary. A large nuni-, ber. of .fractures..of the : bones at the base of the noso vrerc seenjn lurlnsh soldiers, who wero.: not;nccustomcd. to' use rifles, and jini.consequence, of the .tecoil. received; blqjM. : >nt theufotfe s stack,„vilie.n; tho.iWeaponsiWpver,fired. •• Dr. von. .O'ottinßen -says - that - ho v/hasfound " thb use of i-masticol,.< a resinous, ■ verv sticky' substance, for , the first meiit of wounds, .gave him excellent results, as :it hindered the entrance of, micro, organisms, and : prevo'n ted their multipli-, cation.' The'.severest wounds, were those inflicted, by tho bayonet.-anil, they a so healed'with more difliculty than biillet wounds!/ Shraonel, and other projectiles fired frflm heavy guns did great damage, "mostly killing the victims.".