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Ford pointed out that until recently few medical schools had taught anything about gun shot wounds and that many states lack property trained coroners. Partly because of these two factors, a crime is often investigated by a person incapable of correctly interpreting a bullet wound, and the ends of justice are not served...
...Royal Canadian Navy was so proud of Surgeon Lieut. Joseph C. Cyr of H.M.C.S. Cayuga, that it fired off a publicity puff about him and the emergency operations he performed on wounded South Koreans. In one case, he took only ten minutes to remove a bullet lodged a quarter of an inch from a man's heart. In another, where the wounded man had a bullet through the lung, Surgeon Cyr saved his life by expertly sealing off the chest. Ashore, he performed skillful amputations by flashlight in a mud hut. In short, the navy's medical service...
While chewing on a meat ball in the Lowell dining hall last night. Wright encountered "something hard" which was discovered to be a .300 calibre bullet...
Some Lowell House amateur sleuths were inclined to doubt that the bullet indicated a careful plot to eliminate Wright. "The .300 bullet is commonly used in high-powered elephant rifles...
...sublieutenant under Pancho Villa in 1913, Pedro Gomez took slugs in his stomach and in one leg, was left to die after a skirmish in which government forces routed Villa. Before he could die however, he was jerked to his feet in front of a firing squad. The bullets which crashed into his chest merely knocked him down. A sergeant's coup de grace only nicked his ear. The sergeant's cursing captain seized the pistol and sent a .38 bullet into Gomez' head at the hairline-but late that night Gomez still lived...