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TO CORRESPONDENTS
1831
The Lancet
of the 64th regiment, while doing duty in a country town, accidentally discharged a musket loaded with large shot " through his left hand ;" a large hole was made quite through the palm, the integuments were much lacerated, scorched, and thickly studded with grains of gunpowder. Many small vessels and nerves were divided, and several splinters shot from the metacarpal bones of the index and middle fingers. The treatment consisted in removing the loose fragments of bone, after which it was found
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