Perforating Gunshot Wounds of the Chest and of the Wrist Joint, Both in the Same Patient and Followed by Recovery

[Published by Permission of the Principal Medical Officer, Her Majesty's Forces, Bombay.] " The patient, the Native Adjutant of the 1st Bombay Lancers, was admitted into the Regimental Hospital on the 25th November 1889, on account of a perforating gunshot wound of the chest, and another of the left wrist-joint. This Native Officer was shot by a Sowar in the lines, who had already shot Colonel Heyland and another Native Officer by firing self-made Cartridges with his Martini-Henry carbine. I first saw the patient at 8-30 A.Zl. on the 25th of November, or about two hours after he had been wounded. He was then suffering from partial shock, with pallor of the face, cold surface of the body, and frequent small pulse, due to loss of blood from the injuries iufiicted on him by the