Show S t FEW WOUNDS BY COLD STEEL Shrapnel and Shell Fragments r Cause Caus J. J Ift Greatest Trouble Owing to Great Greater j Danger of Infection I OI Much is said about the fj 1 f i ly Iy unimportant part played by P cold M tim 1 I steel In the he present war The folio fOllow or IJ ing lag from th the passage article on s Sur J t tg g gery gry ry Military in the New a iP fr 1 Encyclopedia would d seem bi to In In im J that conditions had not chanced thae f c cc much In that respect since the Fran Franco t Prussian war also that the general gener classes of wounds remain essential r I r uJ the same 1 Shrapnel wounds are like those of t te the old round leaden it musket balls balis b because be be- i r cause of their velocity they are more frequently lodged In Wounds th thare then 1 COlli are rifle bullets Shell wounds lid a as as class are much less but fa far s more severe than shrapnel wounds j Shell fragments cause complete de do near the bu bursting point but bt j effect less dam damage ge In more distant zones Both shrapnel and shell t wounds are usually Infected because the missiles into carry arry the WOOn wounds pieces of clothing and other foreign m matter The danger of or infection U is much Increased because of the greater extent of laceration Wounds by bayonet bayonet bayo bayo- I I net saber saberS and lance occur so infrequently as to obe be of minor Interest Dur Duro I j ing th the Prussian Franco W war is-ar there thera A t were only wounds by cold steel In r among wounded Grenades Grenade thrown by hand rifle and trench french J nor mor te fie tar a revival in late hate wars of an earlier ibi ib W practice recently have been used to toa toa I a conspicuous extent in Flanders and F i France Their t te r wounds differ In no Ian material particular from those of shell di dr fragments and subterranean mines De |