Gunshot injuries: their history, characteristic features, complications, and general treatment : with statistics concerning them as they are met with in warfare / by Sir T. Longmore.

Date:
1877
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Credit: Gunshot injuries: their history, characteristic features, complications, and general treatment : with statistics concerning them as they are met with in warfare / by Sir T. Longmore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    PAOK Bullets striking parallel with the surface ..... HO Number of openings made by bullets . . . . .Ill ]Nl(ire than two openings from a bullet . . . . .111 PACK Multiple wounds, bullet entire . 112 The same, bullet divided . .112 Multiple wounds of entrance . 113 Less wounds tlmu projectiles . 113 CHAPTER If. CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF INJURIES PRODUCED BY PROJECTILES OF A GASEOUS FORM. Conditions which modify them . HI Wounds by gaseous projectiles . 114 From concentrated volumes of gas 114 From partly evolved gas . . 115 From the gas of exploded shells . 115 Injuries to mental faculties . . H<> To the organs of hearing and sight 116 Effects of magazine explosions . 118 The irreat Crimean explosion of 1855 . . . .. • Hy Shock of explosions modified by habit . . • • .120 Injuries from fougasses and tor- pedoes ^21 CHAPTER III. CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF THE INTERNAL TRACKS LEFT BY BULLETS IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE BODY. Shape and dimensions of a bullet track . « Openings in fascia In deep aponeuroses . . Nerves and bloodvessels in bullet tracks ... Opening in adipose tissue Openings in muscles . Occasional large gaps in muscles . 122 123 124 125 125 12(5 126 Effects of collision of bullets with bones . . . Removal of substance in bullet tracks . ... Discussion of this question . Retention of air in bullet tracks Tracks left by explosive bullets Experience in war Wounds in wild animals by them 127 128 120 181 131 132 133 CHAPTER IV. CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF INJURIES PRODUCED BY SMALL SHOT. Circumstances which modify them 134 Small shot fired close to the body 134 At a distance of 12 or 14 inches . 135 At about 6 yards’ distance . • 136 Beyond 5 yards’ distance . • 1 From about. 50 yards . . • 136 Effects on bloodvessels, nerves, and viscera . . . • Wounds by single shot Rased wounds from small shot . Wounds of parts through clothing 136 137 137 138