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Show 22 or cox-snore woean. IerA MMATION mom orN-srror. closed by the bruised parts shutting up the mouths of the yes 5816*. 2dly, The appearance of the wound is like that made in a dead body ; only that there is around the orifice a slight blackness in the integuments, and the black cellular membrane fills up the orifice. We have already observed, that inflammation and pain go spongy bone directly, it will lodge and enter into it, as into the vertebrae, er the heads of the thigh boners. But if it strike together; and in this kind of wound, as there has been no pain, neither will there be inflammation for some time. The parts are dcadened by the velocity of the obtuse body passing through the limb ; a living part become dead, is as a foreign body in a mound; and therefore a gun-shot wound must inflame through all its length, to separate and void this slough; and as there are not living surfaces to bring together, there can be no union until the slough 's discharged. Or let us take it; in another View: a bullet being an obtuse body, forced through the limb, and taking none of the substance away, the parts are by its transit pushed aside and bruised, with a Vio- t ,_,‘~.h_~_,:,,_j§._... ...~.~.-._ . ~ tones and velocity that entirely destroys their vitality, and sup puration must be counted as a first step to recovery. As it is the velocity of the ball wl ich produces the pecu~ liar character of this wound, and as the force of the ball must be somewhat spent in its passage, the part. at which the ball 23 a bone with an oblique direction, it will be flattened; and, slantii 1; oil', will cut into the soft partsT. Sometimes the ball is fairly cut in two by striking a sp'ne of bone, as the edge of the tibia. Where a ball strikes a bone, though obliquely, it dcadens the part. A spent ball is more apt to splinter the firm bones ‘han to enter them. When a ball is turned olf from the surface of a bone, it is very apt to take an oblique course amongst the cellular substance, and run a long way under the shin. 'When a ball has passed through a limb, or even through the body, it will be prevented from passing out by the elasticity and softness of the skin, so that we feel it under the skin opposite to the place at which it entered. In a very few hours after the infliction of the wound, if the bullet has passed along,r under the skin, we may perceive a red stripe on the skin over its coursei‘. 0F INFLAMAIATION FROM GUI-SHUT "'Ot‘L‘J'IH. THP. tract of the ball has formed a dead case or tube, which, lining the sensible parts, the contact and irritation of any foreign makes its exit, will be less distinguishable from the nature of ‘ This is an accident which, in the end, occasions a very puzzling case. a common wound than that at which it entered: accordingly, this orifice assumes the necessary actions more quickly, and heals sooner than the wound by which the ball entered-i". A poor fellow returns from :1 campaign with a stiff and inflamed joint, and is hectic through extreme pain ; but. he has no other information to drive, than that he received a wound there, and the ball was never found. VVhe- thcr it may be lodged and covered in the bone, or lies in some of the numerous sinuses, which have new formed around the joint, it is dithcult to de- , ,. .3"... ,.. _..,_, 1N4?- snore" ‘ .h"("v r- "-1"! r. 01' Till: COURSE OF A BULLET. THE pdssdnfu r‘ "Villch a. blllli‘t "lakes 1": Very SQIdOHl dlI‘CCl ' 3 . be'1nb«r'a spherical n ~ small degree of superior body,~ a Very msrstance on either side changes its cause. If it strike n 101‘, (A. s E ven n ~. regular 0 . pieces .11 oflcad or slugs I have seen pass through the arm w 1.101", :1 d1‘ op of- ' blood f01|0\\ll‘lg‘ ‘ -' ; but this ‘ does not always hold : the com. I .» LS rad -. ofthc u ' oundcd' man , someti ' ‘ mes percei' ve the blood, while he himself 15 unconscmus ofa wound. 1* Some. times the counter 0'13 , clung ‘ , \HICI‘ " C the bullet as‘ the first intention, p 565 GM, hmls b) termine : ‘ iii too often this state ofmatters is tbllowcdby fruitless probing, and more dangerous, though uq‘..ially inefl'cctual incisions. if Instead of having a bull to feel with He probe, or extract by the forceps, it cannot in such a case be drawn through the hole by which it entered: it has become a tint and irregular piece of lead. I say cut into the soft parts; because it has lost the obtuse form, and rnuclrot' its velocity. 4 A man Was uhot with two small bullets in the outside ofthe fore arm, and one of them passed through the arm. Whilst {was t'; cling for the other under the integuments on the inside of the fore arm, near the hole made by the exit ot'the other bullet, I observed a streak ot'inilaminution in the Course oi‘the Queer edge of the biceps muscle, and terminaiin ‘at the insertion of the deltoid muscle. At this last point- the bullet was , "JCUX‘CIY felt, cut up} on, and extracted near the shoulder. Having struck the bone, 31, took a. ne‘v‘ L"'5!ll‘>f‘, running: up under the int":jfum{-j‘t';, ' |