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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 11, 14 January 1916, Page 3

BULLET WOUNDS. An article in the “Lancet,” by Colonel G. H. Makins, R.A.M.S., Consulting Surgeon to the Expeditionary Force, gives some interesting information cn the subject of bullet wounds in the present war. The main characteristics of the wound produced by I the modern, pointed bullet, it is observed, depend on two factors —initial velocity of flight 'and instability of flight in the long axis of the projectile. Of these two factors the former is of comparatively small importance, except in the increased capacity of the bullet to produce extensive comminution of the bones when they 'are struck at a right angle. In the instability of flight and the tendency of the bullet to revolve around a transverse axis, however, the travelling bullet is endowed with a capacity of wounding the soft parts to a degress which no form of expanding or B oft-nosed bullet has exhibited before. “The instability of flight of the bullet in its long axis is so great that, unless impact with the body takes place by almost the exact tip, a rapid revolution of the bullet on its transverse axis occurs, so that the only slightly diminished force is exerted by the whole lateral area of the bullet on the tissues in the distal portion of the canal and the aperture of exit. If the ‘remaining velocity’ is great this half-turn only is probably great; if less the revolution may be complete, or even repeated;; if the bullet is nearly ‘spent’ it is often retained in a reversed position.” This means that the bullets in the circumstances described, turn, as it were, heels over head, on entering the flesh, and in this way the character of the wound i s greatly aggravated.

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