BULLET WOUNDS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2375, 3 February 1915, Page 5

BULLET WOUNDS

A surgeon at the front, writing to t' "British Medical' Journal" some not of his experiences, states that a ri wound is felt as a severe blow, not a sharp pain. It is often only the sig of blood which tells the wounded mi that he has been hit by a projectile, : though the shock of the blow is.felL once. One man who was brought the ambulance on a stretcher. stat that he had walked a mile before fitidi the stretcher bearers. He demanded cigarette and the immediate amputati of his arm. His wounds were very vere—in the abdomen, both, thighs a hand, and his right arm was shatteri He lived only 36 hours. An officer in the Royal Field An lory, who was hit by a bullet in i arm, and rejoined his battery after i wound had healed, states (i that vrh ; over a bullet comes near him Ke'Teelj pain in his arm. "Being lritCnTakes'< understand that he,,is nqf;,Juy]tfn able," ho writes, ".Hid. nnavoida makes one a bit soared at tHo sound bullets." '<•- >'->■< "...iS-;

It is the boast of the Foreitm Legi which' lias distinguished itself in i fighting at Soissons, that it. can f vide men from its owa ranks to ni any contingency. Its commander said his men were'capable not oni. \yinning a war, but of writing its-.. tory. On one occasion when a new 1 racks was being erected the Lea ranks supplied half a dosen qualified; chitects: and time and agisin ori'battlefield, when tho call has been: doctors, Logionmaircs have ward and acknowledged their mro qualifications.- Onco, 1 , traditi when no padre was available to corid a burial, the oommandant appealed the ranis. A. man stepped out and.' fated! Ho-'fcad-ieen. rs