Experiment and experience with the rifle / by Henry G. Beyer.

  • Beyer, Henry Gustav, 1850-1918.
Date:
1901
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Credit: Experiment and experience with the rifle / by Henry G. Beyer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Fi'oin what lias already been said with regard to in- juries to diaphyses and from what we shall hear pres- ently with regard to injuries to epiphyses, the above cited four textbook statements do not perhaps go far enough to convey the full impression of their meaning, but as far as they do go they nevertheless appear to be not so far from being correct as Mr. Treves would have us believe. Tissues containing fluids, (a) Muscle. — In mus- cular substance, explosive effect has reached its mini- mum degree of intensity. Bruns obtained clean jier- forative injuries at distances of 120 m. The canal was not larger than the diameter of the bullet and its adjoining walls were practically uninjured. Von Coler and Schjerning also obtained such injuries in near shots. That such injuries also have occurred in the field and at much larger distances, we must infer from what Sir AYilliam IMacCormac says: “This slender, elongated bullet produces a canal not much, if anything, larger than a goose quill, and bores its way through, as if the hole had been done by a drill.” Nevertheless, a defect in the muscles, in the direction of the bullet, attended bj' a total destruction of the parts to the extent of the diameter of the bullet, marks, according to Kocher, the first degree of explo- sive action. At a distance of 30 m. explosive effect in muscle becomes very much more a])parent. AVe obtained in a young ox an injuiy which involved both hind legs at that distance, about two minutes after he had been killed by a shot through the brain. 'I'he bullet en- tered the fleshy part of the left leg, midway between ankle and knee, and passed out through the right leg of the opposite side about the same point. The first entrance and the second exit wounds were not much larger than the calibre of the bullet, while the first
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