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      WAR DEPARTMENT :: OFFICE OF THE SURGEON GENERAL
                        BULLETIN No. 9
                        OCTOBER, 1915


                    GUNSHOT ROENTGENOGRAMS

             A COLLECTION OF ROENTGENOGRAMS TAKEN IN
              CONSTANTINOPLE DURING THE TURKO-BALKAN
                   WAR, 1912-1913, ILLUSTRATING
                    SOME GUNSHOT WOUNDS IN THE
                           TURKISH ARMY


                               BY
                          CLYDE S. FORD
                       Major, Medical Corps


              PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF THE ACT OF
              CONGRESS APPROVED MARCH 3, 1915, AND
              WITH THE APPROVAL OF THE SECRETARY OF
                   WAR, FOR THE INFORMATION OF
                         MEDICAL OFFICERS

                          [Illustration]

                            WASHINGTON
                   GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
                              1916




                    TABLE OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

                        RIFLE WOUNDS.

                            HEAD.

                                                              Page.
 PLATE 1. Gunshot fracture, skull, lodgment of missile          12
       2. Gunshot fracture, head, lodgment of missile           14
       3. Gunshot fracture, lower jaw, ramus                    16
       4. Gunshot fracture, lower jaw, ramus                    18
       5. Gunshot fracture, lower jaw, body                     20

                       SPINAL REGION.

       6. Gunshot wound, spinal region, lodgment of missile     22
       7. Gunshot wound, spinal region, lodgment of missile     24

                      UPPER EXTREMITY.

       8. Gunshot fracture, humerus                             26
       9. Gunshot fracture, humerus, lodgment of missile        28
      10. Gunshot fracture, humerus, lodgment of missile        30
      11. Gunshot fracture, humerus                             32
      12. Gunshot fracture, humerus                             34
      13. Gunshot fracture, humerus                             36
      14. Gunshot fracture, humerus, lodgment of missile        38
      15. Gunshot fracture, humerus, external condyle           40
      16. Gunshot fracture (_a_) humerus, (_b_) ulna            42
      17. Gunshot fracture, elbow                               44
      18. Gunshot fracture, elbow                               46
      19. Gunshot fracture, elbow                               48
      20. Gunshot fracture, elbow                               50
      21. Gunshot fracture, radius and ulna                     52
      22. Gunshot fracture, radius and ulna                     54
      23. Gunshot fracture, radius and ulna                     56
      24. Gunshot fracture, radius and ulna                     58
      25. Gunshot fracture, radius                              60
      26. Gunshot fracture, radius                              62
      27. Gunshot fracture, radius                              64
      28. Gunshot fracture, radius                              66
      29. Gunshot fracture, radius, lower end                   68
      30. Gunshot fracture, radius, lower end                   70
      31. Gunshot fracture, radius, lower end                   72
      32. Gunshot fracture, ulna                                74
      33. Gunshot fracture, ulna                                76
      34. Gunshot fracture, ulna                                78
      35. Gunshot fracture, ulna                                80
      36. Gunshot fracture, ulna                                82
      37. Gunshot fracture, ulna                                84
      38. Gunshot fracture, ulna                                86
      39. Gunshot fracture, ulna                                88
      40. Gunshot fracture, ulna                                90
      41. Gunshot fracture, wrist                               92
      42. Gunshot fracture, wrist                               94
      43. Gunshot fracture, metacarpus                          96
      44. Gun