Show FEW WOUNDS BY COLD STEEL Shrapnel and Shell Fragments Cause Causa 1 Greatest Trouble Owing to Greater Great r 1 Danger of Infection 1 Much is said about the comparative comparatively ly unimportant part played by cold 11 steel in the present war The following following follow follow- ing passage from the article on on Surgery Surgery Sur Surgery Sur gery Military In the New International Encyclopedia would seem to in In- In InI that conditions had not changed I much in that respect since the Franco Franc Prussian war also that the general classes of wounds remain essentially the same Shrapnel wounds are like those of ot the old round leaden musket balls be 1 cause of their low velocity they arai more frequently lodged in wounds than are rifle rUle bullets Shell wounds as ils a class are much less Jess frequent but far more severe than shrapnel wounds Shell fragments cause complete destruction destruction de de- near the bursting point but effect less damage In more distant zones Both shrapnel and and- shell shell sheU wounds are usually Infected because use i ithe the missiles carry Into the wounds wounds pieces of clothing and other foreign matter The danger of or infection 1st much Increased because of the greater extent of laceration Wounds by br bay bayonet bayo 1 1 net saber and lance occur so i as to be of minor interest DurIng DurIng During Dur- Dur Ing the Prussian Franco war there were only GOO wounds by cold steel I among O wounded Grenades thrown b hand rifle and trench mortar mortar mortar mor- mor tar a n revival In late wars of an earlier practice recently have ha been used toa toa to tOI a n conspicuous extent In Flanders Fanders and and France Their wounds differ In no not material particular from those of shell i fragments and subterranean mines |