 A round shot, passing in ricochet, struck the scale from an officer's shoulder, and merely grazed his head as it ascended. The result was instant death. The skull was so completely mashed that the fragments rattled under the scalp like so many marbles...  A Manual of military surgery - Page 102by Samuel David Gross - 1861 - 186 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Husband Baird Macleod - Crimean War, 1853-1856 - 1858 - 478 pages
...skull may be destroyed by a glancing shot, without the scalp being implicated, occurred at the Alma. A round shot "en ricochet," struck the scale from...shoulder, and merely grazed his head as it ascended. Death was instantaneous. The scalp was found to be almost uninjured ; but so completely smashed was... | |
 | Charles Stuart Tripler - 1861 - 184 pages
...may completely destroy the skull without leaving any marks upon the scalp. At the battle of the Alma, a round shot, "en ricochet" struck the scale from...shoulder, and merely grazed his head as it ascended. Death was instantaneous. The scalp was found to be almost uninjured; but so completely smashed was... | |
 | Charles Stuart Tripler, George Curtis Blackman - Gunshot wounds - 1861 - 188 pages
...may completely destroy the skull without leaving any marks upon the scalp. At the battle of the Alma, a round shot, " en ricochet," struck the scale from...shoulder, and merely grazed his head as it ascended. Death was instantaneous. The scalp was found to be almost uninjured ; but so completely smashed was... | |
 | Henry Hollingsworth Smith - 1863 - 840 pages
...military surgery. Thus Macleod relates* "that a round shot 'en ricochet,' or bounding from the ground, struck the scale from an officer's shoulder and merely grazed his head as it ascended. Death was instantaneous ; the scalp was found almost uninjured, but the skull was so completely fractured... | |
 | Samuel David Gross - 1864 - 1112 pages
...occurred at the battle of the Alma. A round shot, passing in ricochet, struck the scale from an offirer's shoulder, and merely grazed his head as it ascended. The result was iustaut death. The skull was so completely mashed that the fragments rattled under the scalp like so... | |
 | Samuel David Gross - 1866 - 1114 pages
...this kind, referred to by Dr. Macleod, occurred at the battle of the Alma. A round shot, passing in ricochet, struck the scale from an officer's shoulder,...instant death. The skull was so completely mashed that the fragments rattled under the scalp like so many marbles in a bag. The brain was not examined. The... | |
 | Samuel David Gross - 1872 - 1514 pages
...referred to by Dr. Madeorl, occurred at the battle of the Alma. A round shot, passing in ricochet, >truck the scale from an officer's shoulder, and merely grazed...instant death. The skull was so completely mashed that the fragments rattled under the scalp like so many marbles in a bag. The brain was not examined. The... | |
 | Samuel David Gross - 1882 - 1282 pages
...in a case referred to by Dr. Macleod, in which, at the battle of the Alma, a round shot, passing in ricochet, struck the scale from an officer's shoulder,...ascended. The result was instant death ; the skull having been so completely mashed that the fragments rattled under the scalp like BO many marbles in... | |
 | Charles Stuart Tripler, George Curtis Blackman - American Civil War, 1861-1865 - 1989 - 196 pages
...may completely destroy the skull without leaving any marks upon the scalp. At the battle of the Alma, a round shot, " en ricochet," struck the scale from...shoulder, and merely grazed his head as it ascended. Death was instantaneous. The scalp was found to be almost uninjured; but so completely smashed was... | |
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