This plate shows a case of Prof. De Page, of the Belgium Red Cross Mission at Tash Kishla Hospital, in which the head of the humerus was excised for extensive comminution of the head of the humerus with infection.
Plate 163.
SOME MISSILES REMOVED FROM WOUNDED IN BALKAN WARS.
Figures reduced to two-thirds of natural size.
Plate 163.
Of the 46 missiles shown in the illustration, [page 336], 1 to 14 are rifle bullets; 15 to 22 are assorted fragments; 23 to 43 and including 44 are shrapnel balls; 45 is an automatic pistol ball, and 43 and 46 are the base and the fuse, respectively, of a shrapnel “nose” or head of the 75-millimeter field gun.
Four rifle bullets, three shrapnel balls, and Nos. 20 and 27 were removed from Turkish soldiers admitted to my service at Tash Kishla Hospital in Constantinople. The remaining missiles, excepting No. 46, were removed from Bulgarian soldiers on my service at the Etap and the Queen’s Hospital at Kustendil, Bulgaria. The missile shown as No. 46 was removed by Dr. Tatarcheff, the Bulgarian surgeon in command of a fixed hospital at Kodemos, Bulgaria, from the upper anterior thigh of a patient whose history I have and whom I saw and photographed.
Of the fragments, Nos. 15 and 17 are pieces of the nickel jacket of rifle bullets; No. 16 is the lead “core” of a rifle bullet; No. 22 is a fragment of the nickel jacket of a rifle bullet which holds a small portion of the lead core; No. 18 is a brass tube which is carried in the base of a shell to hold the detonating plunger and fulminate cap; No. 19 is a piece of a foot plate or step of a gun carriage or caisson; No. 20 is a shell fragment, and No. 21 is a flattened piece of a shrapnel ball.
Of the bullets, No. 1 is Bulgarian, removed from a Bulgarian soldier in an operation for an abdominal wound accidently inflicted during the firing incident to the celebration attending the announcement of peace; Nos. 6, 10, 11, and 14 are of the same caliber as the Bulgarian and were fired from Montenegrin or Servian rifles; Nos. 2 and 3, slightly smaller in caliber than all the others, are Greek, and Nos. 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 12, and 13 are Servian, slightly larger than the Greek and as much smaller than the Bulgarian. No. 1 is abraided at the base by the jaws of a forceps by which it was removed from the wing of the ilium in which it was firmly embedded; Nos. 4, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14 are deformed by ricochet. No. 5 has its nose slightly abraided by the same cause. No. 8 shows the lead core protruding from the base of the jacket. Nos. 1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 10, and 11 are normal, as they struck the body by direct impact. Nos. 2 and 3, which are Greek, have the nickel jacket worn off on the apex so that the lead core is exposed, which produces a slight degree of “dum-dum,” but as they struck the body at very long range and without hitting a bone, they produced no “dum-dum” effect.