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Ref NoDEP/SMS/2/31
Acc No2013/169
TitleSubject file of Sydney Smith: Firearms and gunshot wounds
Date1915 - 1941
TermEpilepsy
First World War
Forensics
Description Of ItemIncludes 'Traumatic Epilepsy After Gunshot Wounds of the Head' by P B Ascroft, British Medical Journal, 1941; 'Tatooing [sic] by Cordite Discharged from Rifles' reported by A I Kayssi, Director Legal Medical Institute, Bagdad, India; 'Anatomy, Physiology and Pathology of Wounds of the Chest by T Holmes Sellors, British Medical Journal, 1941; 'Bullet Holes and Chemical Residues in Shooting Cases' by Joseph T Walker, American Journal of Police Science, 1940; 'Gunshot Wounds of the Cranium: With Special Reference to Those of the Brain' by R Whitaker, British Journal of Surgery, 1916; 'Dispersion of Bullet Energy in Relation to Wound Effects' by Louis Wilson, Military Surgeon, 1921; letter from Kevin Boyd, Ministry of the Interior, Egypt thanking Smith for his photographs of bullets which were used in a case, June 1925; letters from O S Gibbs, Department of Pharmacology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia [Canada] enclosing a coroner's report and photographs asking for Smith's advice in a shooting, 1929; letters from Stuart McDonald, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle [England] enclosing a bullet for analysis in a case of a man admitted to hospital and dying of an aneurysm although shot during the war - with extensive details of the case including clinical history, decision of the Ministry of Pensions and pathology report, 1931; 'Aneurysm of Abdominal Aorta etc' by J Gilmour and Stuart McDonald, British Medical Journal, 1932; 'Severe Gunshot Wound of the Abdomen', British Medical Journal, 1943; 'Traumatic Epilepsy', British Medical Journal, 1941; plates from Medical Annual, 1915 showing gunshot wounds; 'Treatment of 100 War Wounds and Burns', British Medical Journal, 1941; and 'Detective Doctors' newspaper cutting from The Pioneer, Allahabad [India], 1929.
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