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THE SOLDIERS' FEET AND FOOTGEAR

1914; BMJ; Volume: 2; Issue: 2808 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1136/bmj.2.2808.702

0959-8138

C. Webb-Johnson,

Al. Delorimie, tlle Frenchy army surgeon, lhas-reported this class of injury to have occurred wheni only strolng ten(linotus soft parts lhad been -traversed by the bullet, but in tlle experimenits, anid as actuially ex- perieniced in Soutlh Africa, the implication of com-pact bone in the bullet track is necessary for their production in tllcir really typical clharacter.Injuries of this class were caused by tlle Snider and Martini-Henry bullets of as grcat severity as those resulting from small-bore bullets, but not so frequenitly, because the former did not retain a sufficienitly higlh velocity over as long ranges as the latter.The older buillets prodtuced them-n up to 100 or 150 yards' -ange, wlhereas the Lee-Enfield, Lebel, and Mauser bullets produced thenl up to about 400 yards.The cause of the great destructive effect seen on the exit side is the violent (lisplacement,of the fragments representing the comminu- tion wllich occurs in thle compact bone tissue, due to the