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Show APPENDIX. V-MWA»,..- ~<,.....J:.._< A" v;- ,r ;A A‘ A. _-,-.v -A . .w- ,. - V. it has struck a bone and glided amongst the soft parts, it scarcely ever keeps its regular figure. ' If, however, a ball strikes and splinters a bone, and then lodges again, the probability is, that the lead will be quite irregular, or ragged. For example; a ball has entered on the wrist, fractured the radius, passed out of the fore arm, and entered again into the arm, or the axilla, or side; we need not search for a ball, but a piece of lead. I have found the lead as irregular as if it had been melt- ed and castinto water. In searching for the ball it may be thought very easy to distinguish betwixt the surface of the lead and the bone, but it is not always so; I have seen three experienced and good military surgeons tug in succession 0n the bone itself, mistaking the edge of the perforated bone for the ball. f .u-q-L"'e_4 i:::-...r-"*._':' . ‘ ."_.--. 9:. O‘Otu‘an-v-fvdw-v-Hu ..._ '1‘ - IX. When a ball has entered and is lost, and we know not the course it has taken; if suppuration takes place over the surface of a bone, which bone is in the probable track of the ball, there is a strong probability that it lodges there. In this case it is not the presence of the ball, so much as the injury committed on the bone which is the cause of the sup- puration. A man being shot in the fore part of the chest, :1 suppuration above or under the scapula implies that the seapula is struck. I have seen a wound in the back where suppuration over the sternum declared that the ball had stuck in it, after passing through the chest...§JU FINIS, |