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Leg Med (Tokyo)
July 2024
Department of Forensic Medicine, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 21, FI-00014, Helsinki, Finland; Forensic Medicine Unit, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, P.O. Box 30, FI-00271, Helsinki, Finland; Research Unit of Health Sciences and Technology, Medical Research Center Oulu, Oulu University Hospital and University of Oulu, P.O. Box 8000, FI-90014, Oulu, Finland.
A smoothbore musket firing a round ball was the primary weapon of the infantry from the 16th to mid 19th century. Musket ball injuries are thus relatively common when archaeological remains of battlefield victims from that period are studied. Several experimental studies have focused on terminal ballistics of a musket ball.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPNAS Nexus
November 2022
Faculty of Medicine, Research Unit of Medical Imaging, Physics and Technology, University of Oulu, FI-90014 Oulu, Finland.
The death of King Charles XII of Sweden has remained as a mystery for more than three centuries. Was he assassinated by his own men or killed by the enemy fire? Charles was killed by a projectile perforating his skull from left to right. In this study, we utilized a Synbone ballistic skull phantom and modern radiological imaging to clarify the factors behind the observed head injuries.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ R Coll Surg Edinb
October 2001
Division of Biomedical and Clinical Laboratory Sciences, University of Edinburgh, UK.
The Anatomical Museum of the University of Edinburgh contains a substantial collection of human osteological preparations that display the effects of musket-ball and sabre injuries. Most of these formerly belonged to the Museum Collection associated with the class of Military Surgery. This collection had principally been amassed by Sir George Ballingall to illustrate his lectures when he was Regius Professor of Military Surgery in the University of Edinburgh from 1822-55.
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March 1868
Late Surgeon 39th Illinois vols.
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