A picture of death by lightning
- Authors: Polyakov N.L.1
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Affiliations:
- Leningrad Institute for Advanced Medical Training
- Issue: Vol 23, No 4 (1927)
- Pages: 446-449
- Section: Articles
- URL: https://kazanmedjournal.ru/kazanmedj/article/view/76688
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17816/kazmj76688
- ID: 76688
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Abstract
Death by lightning is a rarity in the practice of the forensic scientist. Many of the experts with a great experience have never had such cases in their practice and have only a vague idea of the changes which occur on the body of the killed person according to textbooks. Having in my practice three cases of death from the action of lightning, I will allow myself to inform those observations which contradict the data usually stated in the textbooks of forensic medicine.
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N. L. Polyakov
Leningrad Institute for Advanced Medical Training
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Fig. 1. Lightning entrance in the form of massive (over 225) hemorrhages.
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Fig. 2. Mass damage to clothing and footwear.
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Fig. 3. Blister burns on the skin of the left foot on the outer-lateral surface near the little finger.
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