GUNSHOT WOUNDS. 
Jikewife be recolle¢ted, that foreign bodies, of {mooth figure, between the soaelee This happened in a cafe which.Mr. 
have often. been known to remain, without the leaft inconve- — has made mention of in his treatife on gunthet 
hience, ‘in parts from which there was no poffibility of ex- 
poe. ema The furgeon, therefore will, for the moft There are two or three more circumftances, ces, relating to 
part, act wifely, who endeavours at firft to extra€t only fuch the dilatation of gunfhot wounds, deferving attention. 
extraneous bodies as happen to be fituated near the external When the sales a confiderable way under the fkin, 
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In fhort, it may be laid down as a maxim, : thes a midway between the two orifices occafioned by the 
of gunfhot wounds, that if the dilatation o' he bally i 
purpofe of ex’ foreign bodies, is lets key to a other. The objeé& of this practice is to facilitate the pre- 
all Sas ‘ea ae plin 
vate the inflamma’ than the prefence of thofe t 
then it is highly payer to put it into —! ; or, in extraneous fubftances. When an opening is not made, an 
words, when oth united ning » from the injury abfcefs angry! forms between the two apertures made 
as-an explanation of the ftrange ward which balls fre- for thie aes is that the fkin does not fo readily unite 
quently: take, after. entering < fubitance of the human with the parts underneath, as mufcles do with one another, 
body. It may be proper to add a few more peasy eee on In certain om the ball enters and paffes on, till it comes 
He maivad ere regularity of the paflage of a ball will, into contaét with the integuments of another part, where 
oy aby rage to its velocity, and the want of it eafily be be felt Ought fuch a ball to be cut out? 
sit I ; = s Mr. Hunter, balls are turned afide in Me. Honter thought, that if the fkin was bruifed by the 
an nsenere lt ox wera rena to - iaighe wita er they move. ball coming againit it, and likely to flough, there was no 
if the reafon againft making “ Phare becaufe the part is to be 
— ae . are cage of turning them; looked ape as dead, and not more inflammation will arife 
and. rete lik the aie aL a knife, than from one. made 
to hit fome bone roblaehy, by Abick they will fo be turn- 7 the flough. iss Tiesaticl, he does not impute much utility 
ed afide. Any thing which prefents refift- to making an incifion, as the flough will comé away, and 
ance to a ball, alone out of its een eu e have the ball of itfelf. 
pe vest et hsar hee balls are green s thrown When the ball is only to be felt, and the fkin quite found, 7 
in which a ball, entering the fkin Mr. Hunter advifes us to let the extraneous “pie alone, tll ’ 
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the b aft aigely sfhanaiil pafles almoft round the the wound, 
. a | ——— Here the fkinis ftrong His chief reafons for this plan are: firft, becaufe Lege’ 
igh to-hinder the ba Frour-douiiigbut ayia, “which wounds get well when the ball is left in, excepting it has 
turns inward 5 but. meeting with the ribs, it is done other mifchief, befides fimply paffing through the foft 
t to the int ts, a Iternatel little inflammation iiiends that portion of 
“te al has been very great, the inflammation is hrough | 
But here the vi of and through. When the ball makes ifs exit, the inflamma- | 
sbi: Lnockececien Sirdetay See in another earme healed up  wiaab ao wept ; 
=. ‘* om m cafe ts. ‘ he ball, which is 
fide of the the fhindbdan, und rin setolos-woder o “fin, with. cut out. When the tall eri i thet anes by 
counter inflammation attacks 
velocity in tin in this ialtance could not have been great, Sonia the place o ‘ as makes its appearance about the 
room between t dea eek teem] cance of the ball | 
ae fat che all, “after it got ond = ve ce the mof eligible fort of inftrument, for 
: was room cover itlelf, t extraction ether dxtrancots 
came againit the tibia which — = ee “The ins gui herd seiner 
ibia, that bal ped between Rigs flefh and the 
would . eit + cut the soeulafas a ieee BE eke ek a tes ta ihe | 
et eet Sek eee 
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