Gatling gun injuries & most importantly evidence

[tarvae]

Hi, I've had a dig through the injuries to order tag and have a pretty good grip on the type of injuries I want but having have googled every variation I can think of around Gatling guns, ballistics, gun shot wounds, historic injuries I still can't make sense of the part about how someone would tell how the victim got injured. All I seem to get is

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[lilacsigil]

Victorian medicine was actually pretty good at major injuries like this - if he's hit in the shoulder and femur and doesn't die quickly of blood loss, his Victorian friends aren't going to write him off at all. Not that you can't shoot him there, but it's not going to cause his friends to assume he'll die.

What you need is a gut shot, preferably with exposed and damaged intestines. If you don't hit an artery (and there are quite a few in there) it won't kill him straight away, but he'll die of infection. The infection won't really get going for 24 hours, but he'll be in severe pain. All the Victorians will be able to do is dress it as cleanly as possible (1860s or later they'll understand medical cleanliness, 1870s or later they may have iodine dressings). Washing out the wound is very haphazard until WWI. Post-antibiotics the would is still nasty but vastly more survivable.

ETA: I should say, with a gut wound, the modern first aider is going to have a response similar to the Victorian doctors - cover the open wound with a non-stick dressing (oiled bandages if nothing modern is available), cover that with bandaging if help isn't imminent, keep him still, calm, warm and hydrated.

[tarvae]

You've now got me tempted to throw in a gut shot as well just to be sure they'll want to write him off. Poor sod is not having a good time here lol

Anyone would think I 'liked' raining hell on the nice guy in the party...still, it is kinda his fault for deciding to all bloody heroic