BULLETS THAT DON'T KILL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 154, 10 March 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)

BULLETS THAT DON'T KILL.

REMARKABLE RECOVERIES FROM CHEST WOUNDS.

Gunshot wounds ol the lungs are not eg dangerous to lire as they teem. In the majority of instances, it' the bullet is left alone, the man recovers This is the experience of Lieut.-Colo-nel \V. Hale White, R.A.M.C, who. according to the "Lan;ot." has been icetrring on the subject to students at Guy's Hospital. An officer, aged •17. \va s bit by .a bullet at a range of 100 yards. It passed through a silver eignrette-case and entered his chest. Yet, after walking a mile to tho dressing-station, he could only complain of shortness of breath, 'n fact, when he had travelled half the distance he asserted that lie had not been hit. Fourteen days later he was quite well, and could breathe casiiy and normally. Ten weeks after being shct throuhg the left lung

;.:.('. the left shoulder-blade a young lieutenant wits fir for duty, and at the end of four months reported that he had completely recovered, and felt !io ill effects. Another officer, hit in the base of the pent lung, continued digging hard lor eight hours. He is now quite well, although the bullet is in his chest. Shot through the breast-bone, a colonel was taken to hospital with a bullet in the right lung. It is still there. Within six weeks he returned to France, am' for the past ye.tr he has ben working I-l hours a day.