Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 120, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1913 — DISABLED, BUT NOT KILLED [ARTICLE]

DISABLED, BUT NOT KILLED

Bullet Puts Soldier Hit Out of Action, but He Generally Recovers From Wound. Medical reports from the Balkan war show the comparative humaneness of modern weapons. In spite of terrific artillery duels and occasional , bayonet work most wounds are inflicted by rifle fire, and the modern rifle l|s a mild and humane thing compared I with the old-lime musket

The modern bullet is small, hard, and moves at great speed. At ordinary range it drills a small, clean hole. Which disables the wounded man for a time. It carries no fragments of clothing into the body, and the heat of its passage sterilizes the wound it makes. Even wounds through the bowels are no longer a passport to death. Most men so wounded recover without operation. An asceptic bandage, rest, starvation, and proper nursing bring most cases through.

War never can be made a gentle, ladylike occupation. But a world of needless horrors have been eliminated from some phases of war, and progress at this time is not yet at an end.