Show how flow shells cause death an effect of high explosive shells described by a scientist entis fis before the french society of chiv civil il engineers a and n d report reported edin in nature explains the death without actual wounds of yet pei sons near their place of explosion E evidence vid on cc furnished by a pocket aneroid ba rometer barometer e exposed to tile the effects of a german shell shows that the explosion produced at a distance of ten feet a sudden ba barometric d depression 9 of nearly fourteen inches corresponding to t p a driving dri v velocity of the air of more than feet fee A a sp second coad the suggested of the death of soldiers u under such conditions without wounds is that the aarand carbonic acid in solution ll 11 ia the blood are disengaged in the shape shae p of minute gaseous bubbles as soon as tile the pressure decre asses too suddenly from any cause these bubbles bubble sare are driven into the arteries under the influence of th the pressure exerted by the e heart it if their diameter is is greater than that of ahe small they form so raa fuchy y L ras gas dus instantaneously stop the blood circulation and death occurs before there is time for them to dissolve back into tho the blood |