It may be observed that this is also a case from Gulhané Hospital.
Plate 59.
Rifle—Plate 59.
LOWER EXTREMITY.
Gunshot Wound of the Left Knee-Joint,
with Lodgment of the Missile in the Joint.
The course of the bullet was transverse, entering the capsule posterior to the patella without injury to the bone.
As its shadow projection is almost circular, the bullet must be standing almost on its end pointing toward the plate with its long axis almost parallel to the line of projection.
As the fibular side of the leg lay next to the plate and as the only slightly enlarged shadow of the bullet indicates it to be near the plate, its position is in the joint near the fibular side.
As the bullet is undeformed and its penetrating power very slight, its velocity was that of extreme range.