A ring on one of his fingers became entangled in the railing and the force of the fall tore off the soft parts of the finger together with the ring.
The older writers mentioned as a curious fact that avulsion of the arm, unaccompanied by hemorrhage, had been noticed.

Belchier, Carmichael, and Clough report instances of this nature, and, in the latter case, the progress of healing was unaccompanied by any uncomfortable symptoms.

In the last century Hunezoysky observed complete avulsion of the arm by a cannon-ball, without the slightest hemorrhage.

The Ephemerides contains an account of the avulsion of the hand without any bleeding, and Woolcomb has observed a huge wound of the arm from which hemorrhage was similarly absent.

Later observations have shown that in this accident absence of hemorrhage is the rule and not the exception.
The wound is generally lacerated and contused and the mouths of the vessels do not gape, but are twisted and crushed.