• DOI:10.1136/bmj.1.2465.734
• Corpus ID: 41983476

THE POST-MORTEM STAINING OF BONE PRODUCED BY THE ANTE-MORTEM SHEDDING OF BLOOD *

@article{JonesTHEPS,
  title={THE POST-MORTEM STAINING OF BONE PRODUCED BY THE ANTE-MORTEM SHEDDING OF BLOOD *},
  author={Frederic Wood Jones},
  journal={British Medical Journal},
  volume={1},
  pages={734 - 736}
}

• F. Jones
• Published 28 March 1908
• Medicine
• British Medical Journal

often both bones, and sometimes in both arms-has alraysbeen exceedingly common in Egypt in comprlWhrt With the incidence of other fractures. This is true of every period from the earliest known prehlatortk times up till the present. The Egyptians have always indtilged in fencing, both as an amusement and also as a serious method of attack; for both purposes they use the saboot, a very thick, heavy stick about 6 ft. l16g, which many Egyptian peasants habitually arry. No doubt the great majority of these fractures of the forearm were inflicted while the victim, with upraised am,was defending himself or herself; for a considerable number of women, especially in prehistoric times, have stiff6red from this injury. In the Anatomical Museum In the Citro School of Medicine there is an example of such a fraoture of the left forearm in a girl of the time of the twenty-sixth dynasty (about 600 B.O.),whosebodilyremains bear distinct traces, not only of the manner in which the injury was inflicted, but also of a possible reason for the fatAI attaok.whichhad been made upon her. Shewas a young woman less than 20 years of age and in the sixth month