History.
—W. M. B., aged 29, cook with the American Expeditionary Forces, was wounded by fragments from a high explosive shell, Oct. 11, 1918, while serving with the second antiaircraft battalion. He states that immediately after the injury he experienced difficulty in breathing, and blood came from the mouth. He ran forward for several hundred feet before falling unconscious. Within an hour's time he was picked up by stretcher bearers, taken to an ambulance, and finally placed in a French hospital. Roengenograms were made, and a large number of shell fragments were found scattered throughout the upper third of the thigh, together with a larger fragment in the left lung. Fourteen hours after he was wounded he was operated on, and these fragments were removed. At the same time a long incision was made over the left dorsal region; the eighth, ninth, and tenth ribs resected; and the shell fragment