BULLET WOUNDS.
In an article in the "Lancet," Colonel G. H. Makins, It.A.M.S., Consulting Surgeon to the Expeditionary Force, gives some interesting information on this subject. The main characteristics of the wound produced by. the modern, pointed bullet, it is observed, depend upon 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 degree, which no form of expanding or soft-nosed bullet has exhibited before. 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 is noraously ajstavatcd. - J
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 62, 13 March 1915, Page 15
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