| Show A NEW nevy B bullet EXTRAC the frightful I 1 list of wounded at the hard fought battles of or alma and arid inkerman suggested to mr izra mt miles at of stoke hammond ammond II the idea of constructing an instrument for extracting bullets fr from om the wounds with comparative ease rapidity and safety the contrivance is very simple consisting ofa of a small air pump and cylinder lo 10 which a tap ia affixed to this tap is attached a euit cult able abie length of flex flax flexible ible ibie tubing about a quarter ot of an inch in diameter lined inside with silver wire to prevent its collapsing at the other end of this tube there is a small globe from which a tube sufficiently y minute to pass into i a bullet wound is fixed the end terminating with ait alt an iq in dia dla rubber collar on tiie tile top of the globe there is a small tap in order to admit a probe to pass down the tube to sound when on the bullet the mode of operation is this A vacuum is created in ill the cylinder the tube before alluded to is passed into the wound and when it is ascertained to be on the ball bill the tap in the cylinder is is opened when the bullet becomes fixed to the tube by the vacuum thus created and is thus withdrawn the great merit of th invention consists in its obviating the necessity for the painful and dangerous operation of cutting out bullets and by its lis means a medical manewith man with the aid of an assistant toworu theair pump aou would id be able to accomplish the work which now occupies many burgeons when the cylinder is once exhausted it would extract several bullets without the neres necessity sity of again working the air pump the medical board has given directions to an ment merit maker to ht fit up the apparatus ung english lish paper i |
