Show FEW WOUNDS BY GOLD COLD STEEL shrapnel and shell fragments cause causa greatest trouble owing to gr greater e ater danger of infection 1 I 1 much Is sald said about the comparatively uin unimportant part played by cold steel in tho the present war the follow ing passage from tho the article on sur very sery military tary in the new international dional E encyclopedia would seem to in dicato that conditions had not changed much in that respect since etaco the france prussian war also that the general classes of wounds remain essentially tho the same shrapnel wounds are like choso of tho the old round leaden musket balls because of their low velocity they are more frequently lodged in wounds than ore are rifle bullets shell wounds its as a class are much less leas frequent but far more severe than illan shrapnel wounds shell fragments cause complete destruction st near the bursting point but effect less damage in more distant zones both shrapnel and shell wounds voun ds aro are usually infected because the missiles carry into the wounds pieces of clothing and other foreign matter the danger of infection la Is much increased because of the greater extent of laceration wounds by bayonet saber and lance hince occur so infrequently as to be of minor interest during the franco prussian war there were only GOO wounds by cold c old steel am among 0 n i wounded gr grenades enides ahr thrown 0 wa by hand rifle rif leand and trench mortar a revival inflate in late wars of an earlier practice recently have been used to a conspicuous extent in flanders and ri france rance their wounds differ in no material particular from those of shell fragments and subterranean mines |