bones. The deformity resembles in
some degree that of the mushroomed lead cores, and also indicates that
the shoulder of the cased bullet is its weakest point. Each specimen
exhibits shortening and widening without fracture of the mantle, the
latter being simply thrown into folds; both bullets were lodged in the
thigh after fracturing the femur. The localisation of injury to the fore
part of the bullet, and the fact of expansion, allow us to infer that
the degree of velocity retained on impact with the bone was
comparatively low, and that neither bullet had been exposed to very
severe strain.

[Illustration: FIG. 31.--Two retained Mauser Bullets which had produced
comminuted fractures of the femur of moderate severity. Each has given
way at the shoulder, but the mantle has developed creases without
rupture, and the bullets are correspondingly bent. Both bullets were
travelling at a moderate if not low degree of velocity]

Fig. 32 is also of a retained bullet in which the fore part of the
mantle is very extensively fissured and the core set free. In this the
mantle has suffered severely and the leaden core to a less extent. As an
apical ricochet it corresponds with the Lee-Metford shown in fig. 36.

[Illustration: FIG. 32.--Apical Ricochet Mauser Bullet (see text). The
'mushrooming' of the core is moderate, but the destruction of the
anterior part of the mantle very considerable]

The deformity found in fig. 32 I met with both in retained bullets and
also in those which had been fired into sand or anthills. The particular
specimen figured was removed from the thigh of a patient wounded at the
battle of Belmont. An irregular entry wound was situated over the
internal tuberosity of the tibia, while a large fluctuating haematoma
existed in the lower third of the thigh, at the upper part of which a
hard elongated body was palpable. As was so often the case with internal
haemorrhages, the patient's temperature rose high, and on the third day
the haematoma was incised by Major Coutts, R.A.M.C. The core of the
bullet was then found in the blood cavity near the surface, but on
introduction of the finger a second body was discovered entangled in the
quadriceps muscle, and this proved to be the tattered mantle. I saw
similar deformity produced within the body by a bullet, which, entering
by a small type aperture in the left ala of the nose, struck the margin
of the right malar bone, and lodged beneath the latter. The similarit