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Show Treatment of Modern Bullet Wounds. A most Interesting and far-roachlnir experiment on a largo scalo was per-formed per-formed at tho battlefield of Mukden, Bays tho PostOraduato. Several sanitary sani-tary officers wlthgood surgical training train-ing being present," out of 100 soldiers wounded In tho abdomen, E0 wora oporatod upon by laparotomy, tho 50 othors left alone, tho only troatmont consisting In absoluto rest and la keeping tho extornal wound opening clean. Of tho 60 soldiers oporatod upon 40 died, of tho non-oporatod 40 survived. This striking result Indicated Indi-cated tho manner of treatraont of abdominal wounds throughout tho wholo war. Laparotomy -on or In tho i oar of tho battloftold was afterward hardly over performed, but strict caro was taken that all soldiers wounded la tho abdomen had absoluto rost for lae.urut three days. |