The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-11-28
WOUNDS Nv MODERN WARFaRE
Experience of Our Men In the Philippines
Treatment.
From n, K1n,ds CS,v Jovrra

From n, K1nsds CStv Journal
Capt Botwood OF Ottawa, who was In the war
Of the rebellion and also commanded COMPANY
In the Twentieth Kansas, writes interestingly
OF the effect OF bullets as follows "Gfeat as hh,,
been the improvements in firearms, IL seems To mo
that they have been as great in surgery IN IN.
Civil War man was placed on a stretcher and
carried back TO the field hospital. without voting
10 stanch the flow of blood. placed the operate
table. the wound probed for the bullet or smpui
ton performed II thought necessary, the part ban.
daged. and a rule, cold water arpied for srvcrrl
days Many deaths ens,ied. and often gnngrrn,
got in the hospitals with very fatal effect.
"Now. when a man is wounded. the hospital
men come up and before the subject is moved m
nntisepuc bnndagc is applied. There is 10 irl
hospital, but the Is placed strctrhct AZ.
taken TO some spot designated where he rename
until he can be removed 10 the base hosrtal
On his ARRIVAL there the bandage il removed p,
new one applied. and this Is generally MOI dis.
turbed for week. No water In applied and ~
probing is done for the bullet which. W toss
located near tho surface. Is allowed 20 remain
until the patient has recovered Then 1t is 60
out or allowed TO remain az thought h'St in
case Of fracture Of the bone IL il frequently pa,.!
in plaster cast and allowed time 10 get well \o
and up to within short time previous 10 our d..
psrture but six amputat!ons Of arms or legs had
occurred.
In the matter OF firearms. actual service in The
frid demonstrates that theories do not hiNngs
apply when u comes 10 actual field serge. |
have read of German experiments with the Msuss'
rifle. and Of the experiments Of our Government
with the 'Ktag' and lee rifles. Al went IN
show that the effect Of these guns was something
terrible The bullets would pass through nj
least four bodies, and white at the point ~ IN.
trance the wound was small at the point OF exit
II WAS fcarfui'y large The liver and other inter.
nal parts wer- reduced 10 a pulp. and in one caso
nearly half Of mans skull was torn away;
MY observation OF Wounds rcceIyed in tho
field was quite To the CONTRARY. CORTLAND Elem.
ming Of my company shot in the love-
abdomen and the bullet removed from near Inc
spine He is now we'll Sergeant Morse was
through two thicknesses Of the skull, boring ont
six inches in the rear OF the point Of entrance lilo
reported for duty in three weeks Lieut. Col.
wallace was shot entirely through the body,
the ball Passing through the lungs lie
reported for duty in thirty days
the 'krng' 'Mauser' wounds are slight ~
Bacalor where We used more krags' than Spring
fields and where nearly a hundred dead wers
found on the field. II was the opinion 81 the sur
goon that three fourths Of them had been killed
by Springfield bullets II the Springfield had
most effective army rife in the world.
"a Circumstance came under my notice which
was 10 me Of great interest Capt Flandcrs'
company was stationed in railroad building
at the Rio Grande and about $50 yards fror, Tho
enemies works The building was Of hard.
wood frame. the timber being eight inches square
the spaces filled with brick making four'inch
wall Single bricks were removed in places and
used as loopholcs 10 fire through. Although
under fire at short range for twenty. four hours
not bullet passed though the brick, many of them
not even penetrating far enough 20 stick. while
every one thai struck the timber passed through.
Rice dykes one and one half 10 two feet thick
also proved a good protection