MOST BATTLE WOUNDS
MADE BY BULLETS
Practically 5U per cent of the wounds
inflicted in battles of the European war
are caused by rifle bullets, according to
statistics complied from data gatheredi
in Serbia by Dr. Spiro Sargentleh, who
recently returned to litis city after
spending a year and a half us surgeon
with the Serbian army and the Russian
Red Cross.
The revolver has practically gone out
of use. and the saber and sword might
Just as well be beaten Into plowshares,
fur all the damage they are doing on
the modern battlefield.
Sharpnel comes next to the rifle bullets
lit Its damnglng effect.
The bayonet plays a prominent part In
lighting at close quarters and Its wounds
are usually fatal.
Soldiers are more frequently wounded
In tile right leg than elsewhere, the left
arm being next in order.
Abdominal wounds are tlie most in
frequent.
SoOO CASES STUDIED
Dr. Sargentleh lias complete records of
3.700 cases that caine under his observa
tion, the list including Serbians, Monte
negrins. Russians and wounded Austrian
prisoners who wi re captured on tin- bat
tlellelds.
From these records kept at first on a
card system, later in memorandum books
and Anally, as tlie conveniences of civili
zation grew scarcer and scarcer with the
advance of the invading Austrian col
umns, on scraps of wrapping paper, fly
leaves lorn hastily from books or what
ever came to hand, I >r. Sargentleh has
compiled his statistics of war surgery.
Of tlie first X75 enses tabulated—it
should be remembered that these eases
are all base hospital cases, as Dr. Sar
gentich says the Serbians bail no field
hospitals worthy of tlie name — the fol
lowing shows tlie proportionate causes
of wounds:
Rifle bullets 431; Sharpnel 3!H>; Explosive
shells 43, Bombs, hand 3ti: Contusions 3
Simple fracture 13; Knife 13; Bayonets 11;
Revolver k; Dislocation 5; Darts from
aeroplanes 3; Saber 0; Otis 0; Total *7.7.
Tp.bul&tfon of 775 of these cases as to
location of Wounds gives the following
results:
Right .eg 101; Left arm 133; Head and
neck 110; Right arm 93; Left leg S3;
Chest 70; Rack 68; Abdomen 33.
“The preponderance of wounds from
rifle bullets Is due to the extensive use (
of machine gun9,“ said Dr. Sargentieh.
“The low percentage of bayonet wounds
Is accounted for, not by any lack of j
furious fighting at close quarters, but 1
by the fact that wounds of this ehurae- !
ter are generally fatal. The soldier who
has been jabbed through and through 1
with a bayonet does not live to reach a *
hospital In hand-to-hand lighting it is
absolutely necessary to kill the enemy. *
If one thrust doesn’t do the job they j
thrust until their man is finished.
HIT UY% FLYING ROCKS
“Under the head of contusions are those
soldiers wounded by flying rocks and
earth thrown by explosive shells, but not
by fragments of shell. In many instances
the soldiers are half buried under dirt
j and debris, often sustaining serious
| wounds.
“Fractures include those eases where
the bone lias been broken by a bullet,
anti the percentage is remarkably low. ;
Dislocations cover instances of soldi* rs
being thrown from their horses and other
accidents.
“Anaylzing the locations of wounds,
the right leg appears most frequently.
This is due to the fact that at every
sign of a charge the enemy sweeps the
opposing trenches with his machine guns
and shrapnel. As the soldiers prepar**
tit advance they first throw the right
leg over the edge of the trench, with the
result that it is invariably prominent In
exposed to the eneinys’ fire.
LEFT ARM EXPOSED.
“Tiie left arm is next in proportion
owing to tho exposed position of that
member, extended along the rifle barrel.
The wounds in the hack are accounted
; for by shrapnel bursting overhead.
| “The low percentage of abdominal
wounds is due to the fact that, like hay
unet thrusts, such wounds are generally
fatal, and the fuial wounds ure nut
listed in hospital records, if the soldier
Is not given Immediate medical aid, peri
tonitis sets in and he dies Lack of ade
quate field hospitals makes the mortality
from this cause very high.
"The percentages given in these tuliles
are approximately the same for the 3,300
cases of which I have record.
"One of the most remarkable tilings in
modern war surgical work Is tin infre
quency of amputations In the 3.300 cases
I handled 1 had but two where tin- orig
inal wound necssltnted amptuation One
was tile right leg and tiro other tie- left
arm. Both where shrapnel wounds.
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TURNS UNIVERSITY STUDENT
Willi.ini T Burns, twice h member of
tin* Alaska lirrltcirlul legly.attire. is reg
istered HI tin* University of Washington I
as a special student It'* is doing r* \
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|ii*epu I atory to devising a system of llota
tloit for antimony ores. Mi Burns owns
vast mining interests In Interim Alaska.
Among them are some properties contain
ing antimony, and as that metal Is much
needed now In war munitions manufac
ture, their development is being hastened
Mr, Burns Is one of the best know i
men In Alaska. Me nns been mentioned
prominently as probable democratic can
didate to congress In the coming election.
Me was author of the banking hill pass
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ADVOCATES AIR
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The Aero Club of America makes the
announcement that Alexander U. Hell
the inventor of the telephone, has asked
i he club to urge Congress to establish
air routes wherever possible throughout
lltc United States so far as to bring in
use thousands of aeroplanes which, while
being employed daily for peaceful pur
poses, shall form a valuable reserve of
trained aviators and partly supply tin
aeronautical deficiencies of the l ulled
States army, navy and militia.
Dr. Bell, In making this recommenda
tion for using tlving machines in the
postofllcc, says
"There the Government can assist us.
If we have hundreds of postal air routes
with men carrying mails, we have a
vast number of trained aviators arcus
turned to dying and Intimately familial
with the appearance of the land over
which Ihey pass.”
The recommendation of In, IP II will
be considered at the next meeting of Hie
board of governors of the Aero Club,
when there also will be considered a
plan to establish the first 43 aeroplane
inail routes which have been proposed
by the post office department
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probably urge Congress to make the
liccesary upproprial loti for establishing
these routes which nutj amount to
000,000. and will ask the 30 affiliated item
clubs to support this recommendation
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