[On the necessity of the development of modern algorithms for the evaluation of the injuries inflicted with scissors]

At present, a steady growth in the frequency of wounds inflicted by sharp injurious objects (e.g. scissors) is being observed. It necessitates an enhanced attention to the investigation of the causes underlying such events and the circumstances accompanying them. This article presents an example of one of the injuries inflicted with scissors that required the most careful and comprehensive criminalistic study despite the seemingly self-evident circumstances of the event. This case illustrates the necessity of development of the modern algorithms for the evaluation of the injuries inflicted with the scissors.

[The historical examples of 'self-bumping' by inadvertency]

The stories of 'self-bumping up' against a sharp object by inadvertency appeared in the historical chronicles with a periodicity of once per each 1000 years. The victims of such accidents include, inter alia, the Persian tsar Kambik II (522 b.c), Russian tsarevich Dimitry (1591), etc. The forensic medical analysis of the self-bumping by inadvertency episodes involving the historical characters made it possible to evaluate the circumstances, specific features and mechanism of the resulting injuries, the specific features of the inflicted wounds and their outcomes.