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Occupational diseases
Volume 169 - Issue 11

Snapshot!

Author:  David J Williams

Med J Aust 1998; 169 (11): 572.
Published online: 7 December 1998
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Snapshot!

Occupational hazard for Father Christmas

No, this is not the dejected figure of Santa on Christmas morn, awaiting the tender ministrations of Mrs Claus after a run-in with a reindeer on ritalin. Reindeer have large, wide hooves, while the cloven-hoofed beast behind these injuries, the fallow deer, is smaller, with sharp, small hooves. Figure A shows the back of a farmer who was trampled by a fallow deer and Figure B shows the hooves of the deer.

Images as described above

The deer assures us that the whole thing was an accident.

David J Williams
Professor and State Pathologist
Brisbane, QLD




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