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ministration. On the first or second day 500 units will 

 answer, but when the wound is older, 1,000, units to 

 1,500 units will be required to assure immunity. 



Gunshot Wounds 



We shall not attempt to describe a treatment for all of 

 the various wounds capable of being inflicted by fire- 

 arms. Their varieties forbid in a short review of wound 

 treatment, and the writer, like probably all American 

 veterinarians except a few in our army who saw service 

 in the Philippines, must plead inexperience. As the 

 fund of information in this connection is about to be 

 enlarged by the untold range of experience and observa- 

 tion of our European confreres, it would be presump- 

 tuous for one in my position to venture into this domain 

 at this particular moment. 



In peace times veterinarians only rarely encounter 

 wounds made by firearms, and when they are met they 

 are generally from low-power guns or shotguns. These, 

 of course, inflict wounds of a different character than 

 those of high-pressure rifles used by modern armies, say- 

 ing nothing of shrapnel, shells, bombs, grenades, etc., in- 

 cluded in their ordnance. It is the wounds of these 

 modern arms that interest us most to-day, and as peace 

 may not always be our good fortune, it stands us in hand 

 to acquaint ourselves with the present experiences of the 

 able veterinariaiis of the European armies now in the 

 field. 



At present I shall content myself with a few simple rec- 

 ommendations. The old custom of immediately search- 

 ing for a bullet imbedded in the body has long since 

 been abandoned. It is only the plainly felt subcutaneous 

 buUet that is removed to-day. Those lodged deeper, even 

 though they may have been located by the Rontgen 

 rays, are left strictly alone to become encysted or to form 



