REMARKABLE BULLET WOUNDS.
New York, July 17. The chartered transport Olivette has arrived with 272 wounded soldiers from Cuba, Among the wounded are some of the most extraordinary cases of injury known in surgical history. There are men who can show as many as eight Mauser bullet holes, and by all the traditions of surgery they ought to be dead. Men who were shot through the kidneys, liver, or lungs are able to walk around. A soldier who was shot straight through the brain has lost the sight of one eye, but otherwise is sound. Another man who was shot through the head just above the ears was able to sit up the day after the boat left Cuba. Most of the wounds were clean'cut, and the bullets, when removed, were not deformed. Although there was nothing to complain of in this line, the doctors found something which is regarded as much worse—bullets cased in brass. Verdigris had formed on the jacket of these bullets before they were extracted, and resulted in suppuration of a poisonous character.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10838, 23 August 1898, Page 5
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