The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1901-04-11
WOUNDS BY GUNSHOT.
A LARGE PROPORTION OF THEM
DO NOT KILL.
Reinar able Eecovsres of Soldiers
from Hurts Causel by Buiiets-kan-
sas City Physician Gives Instances
from Ills Experience in Philippines.

Or. Ernest l.. Robinson, formerly
igad surgeon in the second reserve hos
al, is now settled in Kansas City
~ Robinson during his service III the
.lippines, ii is said, operated Oh more
Lnshot wounds than any other sur
con. lie gives an account Of some OF
80 most wonderful wounds as foHoWs'
= he is something mysterious, al
most weird, in the direction and course
of bullet Certainly 1t often seems
that the missile is directed by strange
and unseen force other than the man
behind the gun, his eye aud trigger.
Probably there Is no Drawer lndi-
yldual on tie face of the earth than the
American soldier. lie is not coward.
He is more often fatalist. lie never
believes he is going to be shot II Is
always the other fellow who Is going
to be hit. In crude sort of way he
is philosopher He says TO himself:
If and the bullet reach the same place
at the same time will suffer for II, but
| am going TO be there just a little
ahead, and he generally is. So he goes
into battle conscious of his danger yet
/ with courage born of faith in his own
i lucky star. And so his faith or that I'M
/ seen power called luck protects him.
"The most remarkable gunshot
wounds have ever seen have been re-
ceiyed by those very men who knew
not fear After the fight at Zapote
River the hospital was crowded with
victims of gunshot wounds, chiefly
Mauser. one poor fellow, corporal,
was struck while In the act of firing.
rhe bullet struck his left hand and
went through the forearm. 1t then
struck the gun barrel and ricocheted to
the right, passing through his neck,
pierced his shoulder, emerging at the
back through the shoulder blade. 1t
had thus produced four wounds of en-
trance and four of exit, and had passed
through his hand, arm, neck and chest,
and despite all this the plucky fellow
had walked back to the dressing sta
ton, absolutely refusing to be carried.
He recovered without incident.
'The wound of the Mauser is gener-
ally clean and generally antlseptic.
There were quite number of gun
shot wounds of the head involving the
brain substance that recovered. Peter
Dunn, of the Twentieth Kansas, was
perhaps the most startling example, yet
his case was by no means unique. A
poor fellow of the Montanas was shot
directly through the head, destroying
completely the sight In both eyes. No
more pitiful condition could be imagln-
ed than he as the transport sailed
through the golden gate into home and
Gods own land. To hear and feel and
know that he was home at last, yet to
know that his home he would never
see-death almost seemed preferable.
I'm n tit of dependency because he
had not received commission the ser
geant major of the Thirty-slxth United
States Volunteer Infantry one day
placed forty revolver at
the third interspace, Just one inch to the
left of the sternum and pulled the trig-
ger. The ball passed directly through
the left shoulder blade. How his heart
escaped is n mystery. A knife nor even
needle, could have been passed
through in this locality without pro-
duclng instant death and yet the boy
recovered. Medical men whom l had
told of the case would not believe such
n wound possible without causing death
until they had seen it His organs were
all In their normal position, as was
shown by n careful examination, yet
the bullet had passed through the chest.
The most plausible explanation for this
would seem to be that the boys heart
was In his mouth when he was shot.
"The true explanation was that the
bah had passed just above the heart,
grazing II or the large blood vessels,
and that the latter had escaped owing
to their elasticity and well-known re-
sistance to bullets. being pushed aside
by the ball in passing.
speaking of remarkable wounds,
Gen. Funston probably has the most
remarkable wound ON record. During
his campaign In Cuba a Mauser bullet
passed directly through his chest from
side to side, penetrating the lungs and
passing through the tip, or apex, of his
heart, yet II did not kill him. The ex-
PLANTATION of this Is that the ball grazed
or passed through a portion of the
muscle wall of the heart without pene-
tratIng II or causing shock sufficient to
produce death. To-day the heart can
be distinctly felt to pulsate beneath the
scar.
THE stout and hearty bugler of light
battery L Of the Fifth Artillery is now
serving with his battery In Gen. Chat
fees division In China. At Pantan
bridge he was just sounding the ad.
vance when he fell to the ground. He
had been struck in the right shoulder
The surgeon hastily tore open his shirt
and found huge black and blue mark
but nothing more serious. Within q
few moments he was back at his post
Not an hour later he suddenly placed
1 his hand to the same shoulder, remark.
ing to his captain. who stood near, I'm
shot this time The captain leaned
over and picked up a spent Remington
ball that had just fallen to the ground
| But the bugler's troubles were not over
nor his fated shoulder out of the range
of fire Before the morning was over
he was shot through the same shoulder.
not two inches from the spot where he
had been struck twice before. This
time the ball passed directly through
his chest and he nearly lost his life.
at is true, as the soldiers say. 'wben
You try to stop 'em you wish yon vero