Medical jurisprudence, forensic medicine and toxicology . m, size,and occurrence on parts little exposed to injury and on themucous membranes, as well as the general symptoms of thedisease, leave little or no room for doubt. From an oblique or glancing blow a considerable area of 470 WOUNDS—WOOLSEY. skin may be stripped up from its deep attachments forming acavity which may be filled by a clear serous fluid alone, or withsome admixture of blood. These cases have been studied espe-cially by Morel Lavallee and Leser, and the fluid has beenthought to be lymphatic in origin, hencethe name lymphor-
Medical jurisprudence, forensic medicine and toxicology . m, size,and occurrence on parts little exposed to injury and on themucous membranes, as well as the general symptoms of thedisease, leave little or no room for doubt. From an oblique or glancing blow a considerable area of 470 WOUNDS—WOOLSEY. skin may be stripped up from its deep attachments forming acavity which may be filled by a clear serous fluid alone, or withsome admixture of blood. These cases have been studied espe-cially by Morel Lavallee and Leser, and the fluid has beenthought to be lymphatic in origin, hencethe name lymphor-rhagia. Carriage accidents, especially where the wheels donot pass directly but obliquely across or merely graze the body,are especially liable to show this form of extravasation, whichis thought to be more common than is generally supposed, beingoften obscured by a small quantity of blood. Contused Wounds.—If with the contusion we have asolution of continuity of the skin, then we have a contusedwound. This may sometimes resemble an incised wound if. Fig. -Linear Wound with Nearly Clean-Cut Edges, with Strands of Tissue bridging acrossat the Bottom and caused by a Fall on the Head on a Smooth Surface. the weapon has marked angles or edges, as a hammer, or, aswe have already seen, in wounds of the scalp or eyebrow (). Careful examination, however, by a small lens if neces-sary, is sufficient to distinguish them if they are they are four or five days old and have begun to granulate,it may be impossible to distinguish them. Contused woundspresent on examination small tears on the edges which arewidely separated and more or less extensively wounds are often irregular, and have thickened orswollen and ragged borders. They may, like simple con-tusions, show by their shape the form of the instrumentwhich caused them. In contused wounds, unless they be per-fectly aseptic, we usually find sloughing of the contused,necrotic tissues. This leaves a
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