Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1915 — Magnets Aid the Surgeon. [ARTICLE]

Magnets Aid the Surgeon.

‘Powerful magnets are aiding physicians in the military hospitals of Europe because of the character of the ammunition that is causing most of the wounds in the land battles. Shrapnel shells have been used to a greater < extent than ever before, so that a very large proportion of wounds are from bits of shrapnel. In the hospitals of Prance magnets have been developed that will draw fragments of shrapnel to the surface from a depth in the flesh of even six inches, and steel jacketed bullets have been drawn out from a depth of more than two inches. —Saturday Evening Post