Harmless Wounds.
- -»■ - -' *w Among the wounded in the chartered transport Olivette which has arrived from Cuba, with 273 wounded soldiers are some of the most extraordinary cases of injury jcnQwn.tn surgical history. There are men who can show as many as eight Mauser bullet holes, and by all traditions in . surgery they ought to be dead. Men who were shot through the kidneys^ liver •or lungs are able to walk 1 around." A soldier, who was shot straight through the brain, has lost the sight of one eye, otherwise it is sound. , Another nun, who was shot straight tnroagh^the head, just above ffie ears,""was able to sit up the day after the boat left Cuba,
Most of the wounds were clean cut, and the bullets, when removed! were not deformed.
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Manawatu Herald, 27 August 1898, Page 2
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130Harmless Wounds. Manawatu Herald, 27 August 1898, Page 2
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