Plate 87.
Shrapnel—Plate 87.
UPPER EXTREMITY.
Gunshot Fracture of the Humerus.
The missile struck the bone and caused a long, splitting fracture, with some fragmentation of the proximal fragment.
The wound could have been caused by either a ricocheted rifle bullet or by a deformed shrapnel ball, either projectile being the low velocity of long range. These conditions are more common to shrapnel wounds, but the appearance of the larger metal fragment leads to the suspicion that it is a piece of the jacket of a rifle bullet.
The wound was not infected, and convalescence is well advanced, as is indicated by the callous formation.
Plate 88.
