[10] Loc. cit. p. 100.
[11] Loc. cit. pp. 54, 55.
[12] Wounds in War, p. 83. Longmans & Co. 1897.
[13] A First Field Dressing, Brit. Med. Jour. 1900, vol. ii. p. 668.
CHAPTER IV
INJURIES TO THE BLOOD VESSELS
The small calibre of the modern bullet, and its tendency to take a direct course, naturally favour the occurrence of more or less uncomplicated wounds of the large vascular trunks, and both the nature of these wounds and the results which follow them are in some respects most characteristic.