GUNSHOT WOUNDS. 
eur knowledge ‘of the animal economy. No wound, let it 
be ever fo fmall, fhould be made larger, excepting when 
of a moe icated kind, and require particular treatment 
. It fhould not be opened, 
rged, 
This, fays Mr. Hunter, 
alio to be military 
the ball does no! 
through, and cannot be found, the dilatation can alfo be of 
“Suppofing it thould be objeéted that the openin in the 
fkin i too fmall to alba fae floughs, xe. ee. 
Mr. Hunter believes that this objeétion is in general deftitute 
of foundation, He obferves, tha i : 
e fin is kept open by its own elalicity, 2 
» mufcles and many other parts do not poffefs 
the Ball eidecilly hen 
‘deals 
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becaufe the fkin- is 
generally the. part that 
(ae. 
les fuch as the bottom of the wound 
le utance, containing - extraneous 
He cage aay that in fuch cafes the wound 
"befor th bottom of "uke wound war clea 
thoi 
ae 
t, in all cafes of wounds, | 
views than fuch as 
‘tending to a ly fomething 
wound made with 2 ball, and ‘incapable of healing whe. | 
months, becaufe the extraneous bodies, &¢. cannot be exe’ 
that ina month’s time it will be in the fame {tate as a fimilar 
wound that has not been opened ; fo that the whole advan- 
tage, if there is any at all, mutt be previoufly to this ftate, 
It is very feldom, however, that any thing f confequence 
can be done in that time, becaufethe extraneous bodies do’ 
away. In man , t 
ered dead, either by the blow or by being 
expofed. Such bones mutt exfoliate, and this requires 
enlarging the wound 
ey © prin pally 
Mr. Hunter, which require furgical operations, and’ the 
following precautions are -effary in 
cafes, 
