Gunshot Fracture of Head of Humerus: Excision

Qalandar, a powerfully built man, aged about forty, presented himself at the Murdan Dispensary on 27th July 1883, gave the following account of himself:?Ten days previously he had, according to his usual custom, placed a loaded gun on his bed, alongside him, with the stock at his feet and the muzzle near his arm-pit; in the morning, before rising, he grasped the barrel near the muzzle with the intention of putting the gun aside, but while so doing the trigger caught in the ropes of his charpoy (bedstead), the gun went off, and the charge passed through his left shoulder. On arrival at the dispensary, ten days after the injury, the shoulder was so much swollen by inflammation and effusion that all landmarks were effaced, and it was impossible to determine accurately all the details of his injury. So much, however, was certain, viz., that a bullet had entered at the