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This image was a cringeworthy expedition–the thought of being filled with metal shards and splinters and slivers in 1915 and needing them to be removed filled me with a Johnny-Got-His-Gun-Trumboian dread. If you didn’t read the caption or know what this machine was intended to do, you might think it a humorous image–it isn’t.
