The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-02

warns against tamponing wounds to check
hemorrhage. Wherever this course was
followed-and a great many Bulgarian
surgeons followed it-infection resulted.
1t is interesting to note that the prop
er trea tment for gunshot wounds pune
turing the intestines appears to be no
treatment at all. The most favorable re-
coveries. says Dr. Colmers, were recorded
in the cases of men who, shot through
the abdomen had been missed and al
lowed to lie on the field for two or three
days, with nothing to eat and without
being moved. He recommends that ar
rangements should be made hereafter to
care for these men where they lie and
leave them there until the punctured in
testines have had chance to start heal
ing naturally.
"A point of especial interest for Ger
many lies in the fact that the war in
the Balkans is the first time the pro-
jectiles now used in the German army
rifle have been used in actual combat.
The Turks are employing these bullets.
They consist of a steel jacket loaded
with lead. They vary, however, from
those used in most other armies in
that, instead of having an oval nose,
they are decidedly pointed. The center
of gravity of the rolnd-nose projectile
pointed bullet is nearer the base. As
result it has tendency, only over
come by the twist impaired by the
rifling and by its great velocity, to
change ends in flight, to "keyhole" as
1t is expressed. The instant the nose
meets resistance this potentiality is
converted into effective action, the bull
let turns In the wounds channel, and
the result is both a more extensive i'm
nIirafiOn nf fiqGiiaS bn
lodging of the bullet in the body MAX
ing later operative interference neces-
sary. Another noteworthy effect is thai
the bullet, in thus turning, very regu-
lar1y is stripped, the jacket separating
explosively from the core and minute
particles of both jacket and lead in
vading the entire region of the wound
This naturally leads to infection and
sepsis. The pointed bullet appears
also to penetrate arteries more often
than the round d-nosed projectile, which
often pushes them aside with little
damage. In all these respects, there
fore, it may be considered a less nu-
name projectile than the other.
Schrapnel wounds remain the most
dangerous, although fortunately the
least frequent The projectiles rarely
have enough velocity to penetrate the
body. and therefore generally remain
in the wound. Moreover. they regu-
larly convey pieces of clothing or hair
into the body. and the result is fire.
quently tetanus and death
The appointment of Herr von Jagow
as secretary of foreign affairs was re-
eeived with considerable surprise by
the German press in view of his COM
paratively brief Diplomatic career. He
has never had first-class diplomatic
appointment other than that of German
ambassador to Rome, and he has occu-
pied that position only about four
years. Previous to that appointment he
had held the comparatively unimport-
ant post of German minister to the lit
tie principality of Luxembourg: and still
earlier he had been secretary of lega-
ton at Rome and The Hague, besides
serving a year in the foreign office in
Berlin
1t is understood that Prince Bulow.
who appointed Herr Won Jagow to the
Rome ambassadprship, regarded him as
the most efficid8t of Germanys Younger
diplomatists His present appointment
was made. IL is said directly by the
emperor. He at first begged to be ex-
cused from accepting it. owing to his
uncertain health. and also because he
doubted whether he had the gift OF
public speaking regarded as necessary
for a cabinet minister in defending
Germany's foreign policy in the reich
stag. The emperor. however. repeated
the appointment with greater urgency
and Won Jagow. like true Prussiar
nobleman, bowed to the decision of his
monarch. While the new secretary Is
a comparatively unknown man. it is
admitted that he represented Germany
very successfully at. Rome through q
most difficult period His greatest
achievement was 20 obtain Italy's con-
sent to the renewal of the triple alli-
ance at a time when public opinion
| In that. country was still aggrieved al
Germany for the sharp attacks made
upon Italy by the German press in
connection with the war in Tripoli.
Won Jagow is described as a hart
| worker. In manner he is modest ant
retiring. with little of the self asser-
ton usually attributed to Prussiar
aristocrat. The new secretary is in his
fiftieth year and is almost youthful IL
appearance.
The Prussian government has JUS
! laid before the diet bill to appropri-
ate s2.500.0 900 for the erection of dams
al the headwaters of the Weser 1t has
three objects in view. to obtain an ex-
! ira supply of wa ar to feed the cana
now in course of construction between
/, Hanover and the kline; to prevent
! floods, and to obtain water power foi
the generation of electricity for indus
| trial purposes. At present 1t Is planned
| to erect two dams. one on the Oder
which unites with the Fulda not fal
/ from Cassel. and another on the Die
| mel. western continent of the Wesel
| emptying into it north OF Cassek The
| first dam will contain over 200. 900. 00t
cublc meters of wafer the second about
| 20,000.000. Later n dam will be bull
across the Weser itself below Minden
| where the Hanover-Rhine canal II Il
| intersect the river. The cities OF Cas-
! sci and Gottingen are to be supplied
with electricity from the new works.