FATAL ACCIDENT FROM STONE-THROWING.

Chimpanzee accumulative stone throwing

The study of the archaeological remains of fossil hominins must rely on reconstructions to elucidate the behaviour that may have resulted in particular stone tools and their accumulation. Comparatively, stone tool use among living primates has illuminated behaviours that are also amenable to archaeological examination, permitting direct observations of the behaviour leading to artefacts and the...

Ray Shooting and Stone Throwing

Stone Throwing in the Glass House

A small girl with a unique genetic syndrome lies in bed since birth. Her brain does not work. She is in a persistent vegetative state. Recurrent seizures punctuate her intractable epilepsy. She shows no meaningful interaction. Her breathing is insufficient. Upper airway obstruction, repeated aspiration events, chronic lung disease, and scoliosis make her struggle to breathe. Her parents never w...

Death from a sharp stone. A fatal case of haemobilia.

Case report A 73-year-old female was admitted with a 3-day history of severe episodic right hypochondrial and epigastric colicky pain, along with nausea, flatulence and vomiting of black fluid and, subsequently, fresh blood. There was a 3-day history of dark urine; the faeces had been black as the patient was taking oral iron. A similar episode of pain lasting one week had occurred one year pre...

[The fatal traffic accident from the pathologist's viewpoint].