FIELD: forensic medicine.
SUBSTANCE: method involves taking foreign available gunpowder and healing wound epidermis scab particles out of skin using needle pretreated with alcohol, placing them into sterile physiologic saline on object-plate and drying. Epidermis scab particles are compressed between two object-plates and lapped with physiologic saline. Then the object-plates are separated and covered with microglasses. No staining is applied to the preparations. Gunpowder fragments are visually observed using autoluminescence in ultraviolet light.
EFFECT: simplified and reliable procedure.
