Excerpt from Gunshot Injuries: Their History, Characteristic Features, Complications, and General Treatment; With Statistics Concerning Them as They Are Met With in Warfare
The subject of Gunshot Injuries and their treatment has acquired a large amount of interest of late years. Neither time, nor money, nor mechanical skill have been spared in promoting efforts to produce guns and rifles of more and more destructive qualities. Nations the most prominent in civilisation have alike vied with each other in struggling to obtain armaments of such numerical superiority, and overpowering weight, as shall enable them the more surely to disable all antagonists to whom they may happen to become opposed. From time to time the improved firearms, resulting from these continued efforts to secure military ascendency, have been practically turned to account in national conflicts, and opportunities have been unhappily afforded of observing the injuries inflicted by them in vast and overwhelming numbers.
One result of this experience is to show that gunshot injuries have thrust all other kinds of injuries into the background in modern warfare. Wounds by cutting and stabbing weapons are so few in proportion to them, that they no longer occupy the place of interest among the injuries of war which they held at comparatively recent periods. The number of field-guns has been largely increased in all armies. Portable fire-arms are now almost universally distributed among troops. Not only infantry soldiers, whose special weapon the musket or rifle has always been, but cavalry soldiers, engineers, a certain proportion of gunners, men of the Army Service Corps, all now carry fire-arms of some description. Thus, when war occurs, the injuries resulting from battle which the military surgeon may expect to have to treat are almost exclusively those from gun and rifle projectiles. Nor are they limited to the notice of military surgeons.
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