05-20-2005, 04:08 PM
jahcs,May 20 2005, 11:03 AM Wrote:Another bit of trivia. The miniball and other large slow moving projectiles would sometimes impact on a bone and the bone would be pulverised in that area. It's one reason why they amputated so often from bullet wounds. Other reasons were time (the numbers of casualties they had to treat in a short period), sanitation and infection (there basically was none, sepsis and gangrene were very common), and anasthesia (someone sawing off a limb while a few other blokes held you down was supposedly easier for the patient to take than a "doctor" rooting around in your extremity for a projetile that may have done all those things Doc outlined).
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During both the Revolutionary and Civil War the "unnoficial" treatment in battlefield medicine for being gutshot was a good clean shot with a pistol to the back of the skull. It was considered the humane and Christian thing to do. After having a bullet play pinball on your insides, heck, I think I would want somebody to put me down as well.
Getting gutshot with modern ammo is no farking picnic either. **Winces**
All alone, or in twos,
The ones who really love you
Walk up and down outside the wall.
Some hand in hand
And some gathered together in bands.
The bleeding hearts and artists
Make their stand.
And when they've given you their all
Some stagger and fall, after all it's not easy
Banging your heart against some mad buggers wall.
"Isn't this where...."
The ones who really love you
Walk up and down outside the wall.
Some hand in hand
And some gathered together in bands.
The bleeding hearts and artists
Make their stand.
And when they've given you their all
Some stagger and fall, after all it's not easy
Banging your heart against some mad buggers wall.
"Isn't this where...."