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Title: The Surgical history of the naval war between Japan & China : during 1894-95 ; translated from the original Japanese report
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Saneyoshi, Yasuzumi Suzuki, S.(Shigemechi)
Subjects: Chinese-Japanese War, 1894-1895 Surgery, Military Surgery, Naval Medicine, Naval Medicine, Military
Publisher: Tokio : Printed by Tokio Printing Co.
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library

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known to lie at their assign-ed posts, two, others were undergoing treatment in the surgery, andthe body of one was found where he met his death. Hut of the rema-ining five—that is. two officers, one midshipman of the batteries, andtwo carriers of the wounded—it was impossible to discover in whatpari of the ship death overtook them, for their duties obliged them tohe constantly changing their stations, ami afterwards their bodiescould not he found. Of the twenty-five persons \\ hose positions couldIn- known, two were killed by explosion Lias during treatment in thesurgery, and one died from burns of the whole body and the positions Figure of explosion of 80.5 cm. shell in thefore-part of the lower deck of the Matsushirria. ► Denotes the direction of the shell. * Denotes the exploded shell. • Denotes the positionof killed men by mutilatedor lacerated wounds. (a) Denotes the entranceof the magazine. (b.r.) Denotes the placewhere the ammunitionwas exploded and dam-aged the deck.
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LACERATED AXD MUTILATED WOUNDS. 359 of the remaining twenty-two who died on the .spot are indicated withred dots on the accompanying figure—that is, three of the crew of Xo. 1gun ; one of Xo. 2 gun ; four of Xo. 3 gun ; three of the Xo. 4 gun ;one of the Xo. 5 gun; one of the Xo. 7 gun ; one of the Xo. 9 gun; sixmen of the magazine party; one of the torpedo-crew who was then assist-ing the magazine men, and one man in charge of the electric light,whose body was found near the magazine. As shown on the figure,a couple of 30.5 cm. shells came flying side by side, and one oblique-ly striking the barrel of Xo. 4 gun, bent it in this /\—shape andthrowing it several feet away, it changed its course a little and passedoff, svhile the other shell exploded striking the shield of the same gunand broke the shield to pieces, destroyed the windlass in the middleof the deck, and scattered a great quantity of shell-fragments and iron-pieces ; at the same time a great deal of ammunition exploded.

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