Gunshot Wound inflicted by the Minie Rifle

Death due to accidentally self-inflicted gunshot wound.

A 37-year-old man, with the entrance gunshot wound on the front of the right leg several cm above the knee, was found dead at home in his bed. No other lesions were observed except a contusion ring around the wound that spread downward and to the right. On autopsy, the wound path was followed upward from the entrance wound (0.7 cm in diameter). The bullet went through the medial aspect of the q...

Case of Gunshot Wound

Gunshot Wound of the Foot

plantar artery which had been severed, and was in a very weakened condition, though quite cheerful when spoken to encouragingly. In addition to rupture of the plantar artery, part of the lower portion of the articular area of the oscalsis had been shot away, together with the internal lateral ligament. The lost part, however, was not of such a nature as to cause any dislocation or disfigurement...

Gunshot Wound of Bladder

However, three weeks after this visit to Hospital on the 28th of January, he came again complaining that he was rapidly becoming weak through large losses of blood in his urine. A specimen showed that very large quantities were being passed. The first thought that crossed my mind was that there were more pieces of necrosed bone in the bladder, but on passing a small sound, which entered the nec...

Treating Nato's Self-inflicted Wound