The use of the Röntgen ray by the Medical Department of the United States Army in the War with Spain (1898) / prepared under the direction of Surgeon-General George M. Sternberg ... by W.C. Borden.

  • William Cline Borden
Date:
1900
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Credit: The use of the Röntgen ray by the Medical Department of the United States Army in the War with Spain (1898) / prepared under the direction of Surgeon-General George M. Sternberg ... by W.C. Borden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    just as the bullet comes to rest. Other similar cases are shown in Plates V, and XXXVII, and case 6, Section V. Cat^e 0.—Multiple 'wounds^ all meptic; Mauser hullet lodged in thigh,' locali- zation l>y Rbntgen ray; removal. William A. Coopei’, Compain A, Tenth United States Cavalry, struck lyy a Mauser bullet (No. 1. Plate II). which entered the left breast, pas-sed superticially through the anterior thoracic wall, and passed out to the right and 2 inches above the um- bilicus, then entered the right thigh at its an- terior third and lodged (tig. -I). The wounds were all uninfected. The patient was transferred to the Relief, where a radiograph was taken (Plate V), which showed the bullet several inches below the entrance wound, lying nearly at a right angle to its course of entrance. The bullet w'as removed and prompt recovery resulted.— Case report comgnled from records in Sur- geon-GeneraVs Office. The case is interesting- not only from the displaced position of the bul- let, but from the noninfection of the second wound of entrance by the bullet which had passed not only through the clothing but twice through the skin. That the Mauser bullet may rico- chet, remain undeformed, and, having turned end for end, enter the body butt end foremost, is shown by several cases in which the bullet lay in a reversed })o- sition in the part. This reversed posi- tion of the bullet has been present in quite a large number of cases seen by the writer, the occurrence being so com- mon as to lead him to believe it an ordi- nary result of ricochet impact, and con- sequently, a fre(]uent accompaniment of lowered velocity and lodgment of the ball. In case 13 of tliis section, the I)ul- let lay butt end foremost in the wound, and the same position was present in cases 9, and 11, Section IV, and case 1, Section V. Fig. 4.—Course and position of bullet in case of Private William A. Cooper, Company A, Tenth United States Cavalry. «, First wound of entrance; h, wound of exit; c, second wound of entrance; </, position of bullet.