Georg Puppe

Georg Puppe (1867–1925) was a German social physician and medical examiner.[1][2][3]

Puppe's rule

Puppe was the first to point out that it is possible to determine the sequence of injuries in skull fractures caused by blows to the head because the second fracture ends at the point where a break in cohesion is already present.

Even though this rule is true for all blunt injuries to the skull, it is of particular importance in gunshot wounds. The fracture lines created by every other shot extend only up to the fractured lines produced by the previous shot without continuing over them.[1][4]

Puppe proposed the rule in the paper Traumatische Todesursachen in Gerichtliche Medizin in 1903. His name is often omitted when it is discussed in English language literature.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 Nečas, Pavel; Hejna, Petr (3 April 2012). "Eponyms in forensic pathology". Forensic Science, Medicine, and Pathology 8 (4): 395–401. Retrieved 14 March 2016.
  2. ↑ Corinna Treitel (9 March 2004). A Science for the Soul: Occultism and the Genesis of the German Modern. JHU Press. p. 184. ISBN 978-0-8018-7812-1.
  3. ↑ Anil Aggrawal. APC Essentials of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology. Avichal Publishing Company. pp. 209–212. ISBN 978-81-7739-441-2.
  4. ↑ Madea, B; Henssge, C; Lockhoven, HB (1986). "Priority of multiple gunshot injuries of the skull". Z Rechtsmed 97 (3): 213-8. PMID 3825319. Retrieved 14 March 2016.
  5. ↑ Geserick, G; Krocker, K; Wirth, I (2012). "Puppe's rule--a literature review". Arch Kriminol 229 (1-2): 34–43. PMID 22448468. Retrieved 14 March 2016.
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