If there be two openings, the exit of the ball, or the counter-opening, is in general much the cleaner, being often in a fair granulating state before the entrance of the ball is free from slough. If the inflammation have been smart, the limb is at this time a little swollen and discolored for some distance around; fibrin and serum are thrown out into the cellular membrane, or areolar tissue, as it is now termed; the redness diminishes; the sloughs are discharged, together with any little extraneous substances which may be in the wound; and there is frequently a slight bleeding, if the irritable granulations are roughly treated. The limb on the twelfth, and even fifteenth day, retains the appearance of yellowness and discoloration which ensues from a bruise, and which continues a few days longer. The sloughs do not, sometimes, separate until this period, and, in persons slow to action, not even until a later one. The wound now contracts; the middle portion of the track first closes, and is no longer pervious; the lower opening soon heals, while the upper, or that usually made by the entrance of the ball, continues to discharge for some time, and toward the end of six weeks, or sometimes two months, finally heals with a depression and cicatrix, marking distinctly the nature of the injury that has been received. 16. The state of constitution, the difficulties and distresses of military warfare, exposure to the inclemency of the weather, the season of the year, or the imprudence of individuals, will sometimes bring on a train of serious symptoms, in wounds apparently of the same nature as others in which no such evils occur. After the first two or three days, the symptoms gradually increase, the swelling is much augmented, the redness extends, and the pain is more severe and constant. The wound becomes dry, stiff, with glistening edges, the general sensibility is increased, the system sympathizes, the skin becomes hot and dry, the tongue loaded, the head aches, the patient is restless and uneasy, the pulse full and quick; there is fever of the inflammatory kind. The swelling of the part increases from deposition in the areolar tissue to a considerable extent above and below the wound, and the inflammation, instead of being entirely superficial or confined to the immediate track of the ball, spreads widely. The wound itself the sufferer can hardly bear to be touched; it discharges but little, and the sloughs separate slowly. Pus soon begins to be secreted more copiously, not only in the track of the wound, but in the surrounding parts; sinuses may form in the course of the muscles, or under the fascia, and considerable surgical treatment be necessary, while the cure is protracted from three to four, and even to six months; and is often attended for a longer period with lameness, from contraction of the muscles or adhesions of the areolar tissue. The parts, from having been so long in a state of inflammation, are much weaker, and if the