Excerpt from Gun-Shot Wounds, Particularly Those Caused by Newly-Invented Missiles: An Essay Which Received the Fiske Fund Premium of the Rhode Island Medical Society, for 1864

M. Begin has made the following valuable observation in regard to the resulting cicatrices. That of entrance, he says, is generally white, depressed, and often adherent to the underlying parts, while that of exit is only a sort of irregular spot, which does not adhere to the parts below, and is sometimes so indistinct as to be concealed in the folds of the skin.

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