| Show q t M fi f M 4 f r WARLESS YAR LESS HORRIBLE THAN NOW NOY I Is 34 s of Improved and Modern I IJ IJ Cl j 5 Long Range Bullets Moro More Humane ThoDe of J J Old Conflicts Relegated to Barba Barbas s of tim the Subject Discussed Is E 2 u j i U U u Powder hilt baa It wIth that f spat nt now to 10 put an 1111 end to the thet conflict J A ot of ofa t 0 j a bl blood nIll 11 Alone the SUg ng to Intervene 1 fI the tho Cincin i EnquIrer can n L J i Dring Into 80 many and destrOys ro 0 mAnY tires liVes It Iti J j I but happl happi i f causes joy to the monstrous 1 Iy I scarce ot scar under tile the pretext that wars are regon j It plunges Into consternation I i too lOti often Into mourninG those vho ho I Ido i i do not think men were created d to detest one another i people eks to do better than Its ite neighbor It Is 15 R ft constant tendency I n a regular game with a record to boot bait boott r t In mG 1161 the Germans held the tho record the needle gun but this record has often been beaten since In ISTO the they held the record for ft In Ini 0 i numbers number thanks to whIch France orance was suddenly Invaded ls In the tho da s ot of Napoleon victory Was ns nsf a matter ot of So It may be f raId uld that the great grent captain sol hIs bat batties batties ties with hit hia legs loday when whon have made the concentratIon ot of t troops op rapid and ea the go god 1 of bat 1131 battIes j ties does not laor as 18 much as nt at the beginning of the century thie who ur ar arV j V on the field of actIon And tm because R ii new factor has made mado Its j rapidity and andi i 1 ot Ore fire now flow VICTORIES WERE WON The rho victors of Jena and were only armed with rudi rudl 4 flint guns and bores ot of which took only n a round leaden lenden but bUI let from CO to SO 80 meters And Andt j t even then ruin rain had only to tall durIng the battle to silence their weapons I If the powder In the pans paus was wan wet Iw it Il would not nol light by ho he spark from 4 the flint As for the ran cannon non the they ills charged shot and bombs but not notto notto to any great reat distance After years nars nearly all condl I 4 which govern the art ot war ore are oret t i f changed fighting Is a amere 6 i mere accident begin at n a distance ot of everal kilometers and Ind with t s weapons so 80 perfect that tho two sides t hit bit without seeing each other and gen n ner 1 i r er orally llY l produce wounds oun 18 to sLot fi Q a man advance and put him hors de combat without seriously endangering Ills his life For the last t twenty enty years ears ballistics 1 have progressed and fire firearms firearms arms have undergone and are continUally ally illy undergoing fresh tresh Improvements I The modern weapon at once more mure com coin In Its structure aM more elm elmI I pie In Its us use has the tho enormous normUS ad adI t vantage over oer the old ot of n a more power powerful I 1 1 ful and ard perforation more simple i A more mor sure and moro more rapId which reM re reI l I I Quires of the shooters n a minimum of In and effort J I Projectiles have been fitted With n a al casing which enables them to be bei i l t mado longer The Use of s powders of great gred explosive power has hasI J extended LU as n a ot of J I recent researches It haS haa b been n possible to reduce the caliber of thus a reducing the tho Weight ot of the rifle an and 1 Sc t projectiles to a minimum and eone conee enabling each ach marksman an to 10 i tarry a larger number ot 01 c I GOOD LO LONG G RANGE WORK I It Is now to shoot In front frontS S f one to be a practicallY useful marks marksman marksman man As far back liS as at Saint Privet e In 1870 men were shot lit at Im 1000 meters meter md nd In 1879 1818 at Plena the Turks I though very inexperienced opt opened n fire it t of 1600 1500 end and 2000 meters tT At the tho present time 1500 meters Is no noi i longer a 0 great Teat distance but a 11 normal 4 firing distance especIally In defense The perforating power Is such that It Is 4 manifested far beyond 2000 meters u C At a 3 distance ot of 2000 meters an I bullet bullot has hIlS still enough force to poss pass V through a front rank man and wound I the man In his rear when hen troops are drawn UP two deep itt At the tho average fighting distance two or three men ma mabe may maybe be wounded by tile the same bullet itt that I hort distance wIthout saying anything J of the greater now gien to tor r works of fortification Uon on the bat battle tie l field u a single projectile would haw have I enough t to go through tour four fire or 01 Ix men Thus In It was oh ob ohI I served that IL a bullet after atter penetrating i II a tree centimeters In thick i I m ness ss still went through fire fIe men ment t are rc astonishIng facts which will not nol be seen in reality as often as some people say For this to be the thet t rue It would be not only that I i tha th bullet should undergo no deviation t 4 after having parsed through the Ors first firstI I 1 OU l arle II a which always hap happens ti pens pers lit at least after the second but also jt I lInt Its pOInt should not Ip Ij deformed Now experiments experiment have I i ed that this happens In half the i l number ot of shots IN THE BULLETS WAIE I It Is seen nowadays that the tho wounded I jre ro more numerous but the much I t fewer A supreme consolation lies In Inthe inI I the fact that the wounded not only to rc ii i t elve ele less serious wounds but they are areA A 1 surrounded with such Immediate care carll that they more frequently recover their health As a last analysis the wounded though they are more numer I 4 j eus DUS show n a lower mortality I 1 With the ballistic power of modern men are hit at great distances Under Tinier these conditions the tho bullet only I passes through the tissues without 1 learing them or perforates the bones Lones bonesS S without producing real rul I i And nd the dressing to be do done no Is much 1 more nore simple It Is fum lent to 1 place lace J it at the caused by the ingress 1 s egress ot of the tho bullet pads of asep c ti or antiseptic guam kept In place by bya a bandage to see time the wound become 4 I I It If the wounded man shows I a little fever teer on the evening of his I f t 4 wound cund the dressing Is taken oft off and andI I the passage made b by the bulit syringed 1 with antiseptics to drive out outI I the foreign bodies which cause the 11 fever feer t 1 What happened 1 ot of old Many sol sob 4 succumbed to slight wounds car carI I rind ort off by It was WIla wasS S i not known knowlI how to foresee or prevent I It Is a very cry lIttle thing not to touch S I t the wound but simplY cover coer it Il with r j I urr from which all the germs erms ha have haveL L t b been en removed And U If the wound Is t infected either by earth of by trag frag i ments of clothes or from nn any other I cause the u use e ot of sterilized probes probe to tot t 1 sound the flesh ot or I to 10 o open el It it If necessary an and ot of I tic liquids to put matters tight I k 2 k and to keep the wounded man from the 1 M 4 21 anger of putrid which used i to make so many victims 1 I I OPERATIONS S LESS PAI PAINFUL FUL Supposing that It Is a I qU question ston of the ther r of the knee by the bursting J r of a shell hel or the fracture I I 4 of a 3 thigh h the present pro progress ress of 1 I gives Iea the patient more chances I of recovery than of death Formerly I j the lamb was sacrificed and the opera L g tion was by the most 1 le sufferings At the Iho present bi time the use ot of other ether or chloroform A I Jen itI the op U easy for the I I 1 r a It is II for Cor the pa 11 1 u rm tient The i a great 11 of the knife For an open ot I the 1 was at atI f I 1 1 www www once hall had to amputation ot of the tho le leg In InJury Injury Jury to the bones ot of the foot led to similar cOIS Now neither the knife nor time the saw comes Into use Ulle ex except In III very rare cases It Is hI and antiseptics which allow ot of seriously wounded soldiers b being reserve l from complications complication The preservation ot of limbs Is the general rule and It Is only when everything else elsa fails talis when every everything everything thing Is shattered or torn off that the surgeon decides to am amputate V VV VV VV V V VA A surgeon Burgeon hall had to possess an unusual degree ot 0 nerve to preserve the necessary sary calmness during durin on an amputation mode made without As tit a con consequence consequence sequence the principal Idea was speed In the carryIng out or of operations with withas I IIII III as n a result an unfavorable influence on their suc success ess The skill of this or that surgeon was legendary today this equality Is relegated to the tho second or third place There Is in no necessity to hUt hury chloroform allows allos the operator to proceed quietly surely and clous The surgeon has hils all the time he needs but bul his work must be Irre irreproachable Accordingly recoveries are very rap rapId Id hI gener generally there thero Is no suppuration whatever may have been the condition ot of the limb while formerly the they were very slow cen It If death did not tal fol tallow follow low ADVANCED SURGERY HELPS The performance of an amputation resembles but little of that of former times time though the cutting of the tho flesh and bone Is necessarily the same But Dut what was not done formerly was the forcing back ot of the tho blood toward the tho base ot of the member by means ot of an elastic band thus preventing the now flow ot of the vital fluid and allowing the tho sur surgeon surgeon geon to operate t see Then there Is IV 4 the cleaning with soap alcohol nn and l ethor ot of the tho parts to be operated upon the heating of degrees or do de grees centigrade ot of the Instruments and the bandages bandage the tho st sterilisation ot of the hands ot of the tho operator with and ImmersIons In antiseptic liquid the tho employment ot of bent ligatures the minute c on the tho wound and the exact suture ot of its Is edges The consequence Is a r rapid local recovery so no so that In 12 or 15 days the wound of an Is healed d which formerly was as a matt r of months month It if Indeed no fatal supervened During Durin the Crimean war ot of It Il broke out nt at the tho same time Lime as to cholera scurvy and ond typhus and shOwed n a high degree derree of severity It was WIlS ob observed served In th the In ConstantI ConstantInople nople and on the transport brInging the wounded from the tho Crimea Crimen to Constan Constantinople and from to France It made equal ravages among the English and wounded During the tho war In Italy In iii 1519 it Il reappeared eared In the Italian Autria and Tonch 1 hospitals It broke out during lure dur Ing the War ot of Secession in Germany during durin the wars ware of ml and nd mG 1566 and finally during the campaIgn ot of VV Y YIt It has hos even rea reappeared l In moro more recent wars but In a less leu Intense form torm much I Imore more mild than ot at the beginning of century or that of 18 Hospital grene Is Q a malady and gIves way to antiseptic treatment War must be made against It unceasing Iy IyA Y A comparison ot of the surgIcal results of wars In former days and those ot of the present time is II nil all to the advantage of the latter |
