The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-07-21
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cases of INJURY known in surgical his
tory. When the war Is over, il is prob
able that military and naval methods of
warfare will not be the only things to
have been revolutionized. There are in
dications that most OF the surgical axioms
which relate TO gunshot Injuries will have
to be revised.
Some of the men on the Olivette are al
most shot to pieces. There are men who
can show as many as eight bullet holes
and by all the tions of surgery they
ought to be dead Instead they are alive
and not particularly uncomfortable. Men
who were shot through the kidneys, liver
or lungs are able to walk around. A sol
der who was shot through the brain has
lost the sight of one eye, but otherwise he
is sound. Another man who was shot
through the head just above the ears was
able to sit up the day after the boat left
Cuba.
Acting Assistant Surgeon H. L. Brown
furnished a technical description of the
surgical complications caused by the
wounds.
''The principal thing to be said about
most of these cases." said Dr. Brown, "is
that the intelligent use of the emergency
package furnished to each soldier I'M
doubtedly saved the lives of most of those
men. We found that the packages of
bandages were about the only things the
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to tighten their burdens BY their use
hemorrhage was stopped, and the wounds
came to us aseptic. During the whole
time we we're in Cuba / saw only one case
Of the kind which was SO terribly familiar
to the surgeons at the time of the civil
war. A soldier was badly wounded in the
foot. He bandaged the place and tried
to walk to the rear. Becoming exhausted
he spent the night in a field The ban
dages became loosened, and when be
came to US I found that the wound was
infected with larvae of flies. Bichloride
of mercury, an anti-septic practically un-
known at the time of the civil war
stopped that at once. The gauze pads
supplied to the soldiers in the emergency
packages are all rendered anti-secptic by
bichloride.
"Gunshot and shell wounds make up our
surgical cases. We have not handled a
bayonet or machine wound. In no case
did we find any evidence that explosive
or expanding bullets had been used by the
Spaniards. Most Of the wounds were
clean-cut. and the bullets when removed
were not deformsd. Although we found
MOI 70 loi If In In
found something which we regarded as
much worse-bulets cased in brass.
"One OF the men brought in had been
shot through the thigh by one of these
brass affairs. Lieutenant Howard remOv-
ed it. The bullet was of about 3S-calibre,
and was not al all deformed, but the way
1t poisoned the mans leg was horrible
Verdigris formed on the JACKET Of the bull
let before il was extracted, and the result
ing suppuratioR was of such a poisonous
character that the mans flesh for quite
a distance around the point of entrance
Of the bullet was excoriated by the dis
charge from the wound.
THE worst wound to be found upon the
ship is borne by Norman Orme. OF COM
pany Z, First volunteer cavalry, (the
Rough Riders) Orme was fighting Indian
fashion-lying upon his stomach and
shooting when he got a chance-when
he was struck by Mauser ball He was
| aiming his rifle at the time and his left
| arm was bent.
The Spanish bullet struck Orme In the
left arm, just above the elbow, and pierre
| ed it, Passing out it entered the upper
arm. producing compound comminuied
fracture Of the bone Of the upper arm.
| The bullet passed out Of the arm and
| entered Orme's body. just below the left
armpit. Thence It ranged downward,
| passing through MS lung. At the opposite
| side OF The body the bullet was checked
/ oy rib. It had force enough to smash
| this rib. but It could 90 no further. and
| remained il the mans body
IN this case six wounds were inflicted
/ by one bullet and me extraordinary part
/ Or the thing Is that Orne has = very good
| chance fot recovery. The bullet. n pass
/ ny through the arm. missed ths IMPORT
! ant arteries and nerves BY the thickness
/ OF 4 sheet OF paper. Il must have passed
/ the mans heart between beats-bet ween
| d.asto.e and sys,o.e, surgeons say-sld
| 50 escaped Iujurlug that organ
| When Orue was brought 10 the field
/ hospital re was pretty Ear gone Or3l-
! nary aseptic dressings we're pat On MS
wounds. The brlet read.iy could nave
/ been removed, bui no attempt was made
/ % sNt-ac, &. as the patients condition
i did not warrant the interference Wbea
re IS stronger reseci.on q tie in5Gred
RIB VIII be necessary and the bullet can
| be removed
The next curious case - thar = Cap
/ tain Thomas 7 Knox. q ,ae RouEa I'D
| e-s. Captain Kaox was struck II lie
small q TIE back ~ MsGser ballet
IN many points :; vas similar wound
/ 10 that received b. correspondent. MAJ
saasl. except taat tie 6o7s @As aol il
! VOWED
TIE bulls. which StrGck Captain Knsx
/ hit rim 70 re rlght q re spsae. 2ertor-
/ atIns she Big muscles q the back Themes
/ rs buBet passed fhFoUEn sse right kze-
n4y liver and r1gh. lung. ranging HP-
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