PROJECTILE ENTERS BODY WITHOUT WOUND.

Taihape Daily Times, 30 January 1919, Page 5

PROJECTILE ENTERS BODY WITHOUT WOUND.

A soldier wounded at Verdun, April 23, 1916, by several splinters of shell arrived af the American; ambulance with, the diagnosis of superficial wounds of the right thigh, left log, forehead, and scalp. Many splinters were removed, and the patient was completely healed of his wounds 45 days after his arrival at the hospital. Just as he was about to be discharged he complained of abdominal pain, and said he had the sensation of a foreign body in his abdomen. The Roentgen ray showed on the posterior wall of the stomach an ulceration of ahalf inch fa diameter. Eaxctly at the place indicated by the Roentgen ray an ulcer was found, and behind it a shell splinter very irregular and sharppointed. about a.-half inch thick. Attention is called to‘the possibility of a soldier having a splinter in his abdomen without any appreciable trace of a skin wound.