Wound of entrance, over the anterior border of the right ramus.
Wound of exit, beneath the lobe of the ear.
The wound was made by a rifle bullet with the velocity of long range, because wounds of a shrapnel ball never show such slight injury without lodgment or without marks of lead.
The damage of the bone was very slight, as only a superficial fragment was chipped off. There were no signs of primary infection. Reaction and periostitis suggested the radiograph after infection had rarefied the fragment, shown but very faintly on the left side of the plate.
The postero-anterior skull radiograph was made with the face superimposed upon the photographic plate.
Treatment, incision and drainage.
Plate 5.
