are being continually treated here. The wounds are usually those. made at point-blank range the unconsumed powder being driven into the flesh. The quality of the powder must vary exceedingly in different charges, An old man recently treated had one bullet taken out of his eye and one out of his neck. In both cases they had done little more than bury themselves. One young man was shot above the knee; the hammered slug had passed entirely through the leg and was removed with little cutting on the other side,
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