Identifier: gunshotinjuriesh1916laga (find matches)
Title: Gunshot injuries : how they are inflicted : their complications and treatment
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: La Garde, Louis A. (Louis Anatole), 1849-1920
Subjects: Wounds, Gunshot Gunshot wounds
Publisher: New York : William Wood and Co.
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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Fig. 109.—Skiagram showing perforating fracture of head by Colts new service revolver .45cal. lead bullet at close range in cadaver, brain in situ. Ball flattened, lost its penetration and thenlodged. Note particles of lead in track of bullet. Army Medical School collection. Hitherto the greater number of gunshot injuries of the cranium fromrevolvers in both civil and military practice resulted in penetratingfractures with lodged balls. This was due to comparatively lowvelocities, and the great tendency of the lead bullets to deform onimpact against the hard skull. Even in the proximal ranges the bulletof the .45 and .38-caliber new service Colts revolvers, two of the most GUNSHOT WOUNDS OF THE HEAD, FACE AND NECK 189 effective weapons of their type, and which were recently discardedby our army, failed to perforate the skull in the majority of cases.(See Figs. 107, 108, 109.)
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Fig. 110.—Photograph of gun-shot fracture of cranium in cadaver with brain in situ by theLuger automatic pistol bullet, cal. 7.65 mm. at 37 1/2 yards, with velocity of 1258 f.s. Bulletentered left orbit and emerged above and behind right auditory meatus fracturing left malar, orbital,surface superior maxillary, ethmoid, body and great wing of sphenoid, vomer; separated the rightmalar, fracturing frontal over orbit, right parietal, petrous, squamous and mastoid portions of righttemporal, left parietal and left occipital bones. Philadelphia Polyclinic, service of Dr. A. Hewson. Jacketing the bullet of the automatic weapons, and the use ofsmokeless powder, have added to the penetration and velocity of the 190 GUNSHOT WOUNDS new arm to such an extent that its bullets will seldom deform, theywill lodge less often in the tissues, including the skull. The woundsof the cranial region will be of the perforating kind and the lesionswill more nearly approach those produced by the military rifl

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