MORTAL GUNSHOT WOUND IN AN EARLY 19 th CENTURY MUMMY FROM UMBRIA, CENTRAL ITALY Department of Oncology, Transplants and Advanced Technologies in Medicine.

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MORTAL GUNSHOT WOUND IN AN EARLY 19 th CENTURY MUMMY FROM UMBRIA, CENTRAL ITALY Department of Oncology, Transplants and Advanced Technologies in Medicine Section of History of Medicine and Paleopathology, University of Pisa* National Museum of Oriental Art, Laboratory of Paleobiology, Rome** Gino Fornaciari*, Lorenzo Costantini**, Rosalba Ciranni*

The crypt of the church of the "Saints Jesus and Mary" of Borgo Cerreto, a small village near Spoleto (Umbria, central Italy)…

…revealed six natural mummies in good state of preservation, dating back to the 18th century. One of the bodies belonged to a man, buried in stretched out position, slightly curved to the left and with the inferior limbs bent.

The style of the garment, consisting in a long jacket, tightened around the waist, a shirt with very large sleeves and trousers with buttons, worn underneath the boots, made it possible to date the mummy, probably of a soldier, at the first of the 19 th century.

This is a graphic reconstruction of the original aspect of the body…

…and the possible aspect of the individual in life.

The right wrist presented a dressing, covering a transversal wound with enlarged margins.

X-ray did not evidence any lesion of the bones of the right forearm and arm; the total absence of vertebral athritis confirmed that the subject was still young.

The inferior half of the right thigh revealed a large circular dressing, fastened with many small nodes.

X-ray evidenced a comminuted fracture limited to the inferior third of the femoral diaphysis, with the presence of small metallic fragments.

A medication still in situ was present under the dressing, with a plug penetrating through the cutaneous muscular layers.

After plug removal, a wound appeared of the lateral region of the thigh. The wound was of oval shape, 2 x 1.5 cm in size, revealing the bone splinters of the femoral diaphysis, already evidenced by X-ray.

Even the inferior half of the left thigh, completely skeletonized, presented a circular dressing with a plug, without any lesion of the femur.

The oval lesion of the thigh, the comminuted fracture of the femur and, in particular, the tiny metallic fragments, prove that we are in the presence of a gunshot wound. The circular shape and the size of the wound, well adapting to the 18 mm gauge of the military gun balls of the second half of the 18th century, allowed us to identify it with a typical bullet-hole.

Therefore, during a combat, the individual was seriously injured by a bullet which penetrated laterally, causing the exposed and comminuted fracture of the femur. Even the lesion on the right pulse is almost certainly referrable to the same event. Despite the professional cures, the injured person died, probably of complications.