RED-HOT BULLETS.

Evening Post, Volume LIX, Issue 127, 30 May 1900, Page 6

RED-HOT BULLETS.

The special war correspondent of the British Medical Journal wiites . — "A curious cti--e of possible burn from a bullet was shown in a wound received by a corporal in the Queen's Regiment The bullet (possibly a spent one) had struck the !*hafb of the tibia, close to the crest, tmver&ely, and apparently had drilled the bone. There was little irregularity of the bone, and a fragment may have been displaced. Close to the exit wound was a mark resembling a burn the extent and shape of a bullet. The patient's account was thai, he had felt himself hit, and felt something burning his leg. On removing tho puttie the bullet was found lying beneath it. The man stated lhat :t was ''red-hot" — a perhaps pardonable exaggeration. The bullet, at any rate, was too hot to hold in the hand without pain. The bullet was not a ricochet in appearance. Another patient gave a somewhat similar account. It is possible that some heat might be developed by the arrest of a bullet by the clothing, but in such a case the missile cannot have been travelling with any graat velocity.