Doll rule

The puppet rule is a term from forensic medicine . It says that in the case of successive skull fractures, fracture lines that occurred later end at earlier ones. It can thus be used to determine the time sequence of the breaks. Its name goes back to its discoverer, the German forensic and social medicine specialist Georguppe (1867–1925).

literature

• Burkhard Madea: Practice forensic medicine . Springer 2003 (reprint 2013), ISBN 978-3-662-09424-2 , p. 119

Web links

• Thomas Sigrist: Forensic Medicine . Script of the Institute for Forensic Medicine at the Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen (2006) ( Memento from June 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.22 MB)