Wooster skrev:Wikipedias uppgifter går dock lite i sär mot de Hex redovisar - (skador mot huvud/nacke och blodpropp vs skador mot bröstkorg och lugnödem - om jag översatt medicinen rätt). Var kommer bilden ifrån?
Jag såg en bild i New York Times, 12 december 1945, och letade reda på en annan. Jag kan intyga att det är samma bil. Så är t.ex. vindrutan hel.
Få se; här är andra stycket du citerar (kan direkt tillägga att en jakthund i bilen också klarade sig utan skador):
At first the crash seemed minor, the vehicles were hardly damaged, no one in the truck was hurt, and Gay and Woodring were uninjured. However, Patton was leaning back with trouble breathing. The general had been thrown forward and his head struck a metal part of the partition between the front and back seats. Paralyzed from the neck down, George Patton died of an embolism on December 21, 1945 at the military hospital in Heidelberg with his wife present.
När jag läser samma samtida källa (med fulla källkritiska reservationer) så skulle detaljen om huvudet kunna vara uträknad i efterhand:
It was assumed that the jolt must have thrown General Patton against some projection, thus cutting his head, as there was blood on the back seat of the car.
Men huvudskadan går man inte in på senare, det verkar ha varit frågan om en helt ytlig blessyr där det räcker med ett plåster. Det enda man skriver om är skadan på ryggraden, "the fracture and dislocation of his third and fourth cervical vertebrae", som skall sitta i halsen. Det är denna skada Bazata erkänt sig ha orsakat med ett välriktat skott, avlossat någonstans ifrån i samma sekund som bilarna krockade - se, det var en prickskytt, det. Eller trodde han att samtliga inblandade låg avsvimmade?
Tog en extra titt på den faktiska dödsorsaken. Beskrivningarna är ymniga, jag skulle gärna hålla någon medicinare i handen, men enkelt uttryckt gav en blodpropp upphov till embolism, som i sin tur tog på hjärtat:
At approximately 2 A. M. on the 20th he had an acute attack of breathlessness and pallor, which lasted approximately one hour, and was relieved by medication. At that time we felt relatively sure that he had a pulmonary embolism, which is a blood clot which gets loose in the circulation and is pumped by the heart into the lungs and causes a spot of gangrene in the lungs. The affected tissue loses its blood supply and partly dies.
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He recovered very satisfactorily from the initial shock, but this morning he began to fill up with mucus more and more and had more and more difficulty in raising up the mucus. That change gradually increased, and he had more and more difficulty in getting mucus up. His lungs became wetter and wetter, a condition we call pulmonary embolism. All effort to stop the progress of his condition seemed futile. Then his heart became affected by this increased load placed upon it, and this morning, for the first time, he showed evidence of heart failure. Late this afternoon he was in very critical condition. At 10 to 6 he suddenly died. His death is probably accounted for by heart failure, it being quite possible that another embolism hit the good side, that is, the left side, of his chest. It was acute heart failure or another embolism striking the good lung.
- NYT 22 december 1945
Också en död.
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, Varjag