The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-08-28
SMALL BULLET WOUNDS.
Eha Deadly Effects Of Modern Projectile
> Upon the Human Body.

SMALL BULLET WOUNDS.
KAa Deadiy Enects Of Modern Projeetilea
Upon the Human Body.
The celebrated English surgeon, Pro-
lessor Victor Horsley, read q very in
teresting paper before the Royal insti-
tuition On the effect OF modern small
projectiles In the course of his remarks
he said: Some people seem TO think
that q small bullet at q very high speed
will pierce the tissues of, the body with
ont doing much general damage. This,
however, Is erroneous. The bullet hur-
ries forward with il PARTICLES Of the
substance through which it Is passing,
and thus practically becomes q larger
projectile. II q bullet be fired through
Ia book, it cuts out disks of increasing
diameter as it traverses the pages.
Hence, too, it is plain that the greater
the sectional area the greater the dam
age. As to the heating of the bullet, ID
has certainly been much exaggerated,
and its effects. il indeed ID has any,
may be safely neglected.
THE physical constitution OF o body
has q most important bearing upon the
behavior OF q bullet entering it. Why
does a bullet of certain size and travel
ing at q certain rate simply perforate
some substances. such as wood or iron,
while in others, such as clay, brain,
etc, it exercises a bursting and disrup-
tive action? The answer is quite sim
pile; the destructive effects vary direct
ly 10 the viscosity of the body.
This was established by some remark
able researches ON the effects of bullets
ON soft tissues made by Huguier after
he had observed the results of the
wounds inflicted in the fighting in Paris
in I6481 He suggested, from observa-
tons made ON certain dead organs, such
as lungs, that the reason of the great
lateral disturbance was that the tissues
contained water in large quantity, and
that the energy Of the moving projec-
tile being imparted to the particles of
water caused the dispersion of these in
"a hydro-dynamic fashion.
sThis suggestion was shown to be cor
rect by Kocher i'm 1915. If q shot be
fired through two tin canisters of equal
size, the one full Of dry lint and the
other OF wet, ID viii simply perforate
the former, but cause the latter to burst
explosively. In the same way shots fired
into dough have more or less disruptive
effect, according TO the percentage Of
water In the dough, and In general the
more fluid the substance the greater the
destruction. /
Now, in life the brain is q more or
less huid body, though in state, of rigor
morris it is practically . solid owing
to, coagulation of the blood and protor
plasm. Hence q shot fired into the,
skull must have q descriptive effect and
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