It then passed through the small sacrosciatic notch, completely dividing the pudic artery and nerve, and one vein, each end being closed by a clot.

The knife entered the bladder close to the trigone, making an opening large enough to admit the index finger.
There were well-marked evidences of peritonitis and cellulitis.
Old-time surgeons had considerable difficulty in extracting arrow-heads from persons who had received their injuries while on horseback.

Conrad Gesner records an ingenious device of an old surgeon who succeeded in extracting an arrow which had resisted all previous attempts, by placing the subject in the very position in which he was at the time of reception of the wound.

The following noteworthy case shows that the bladder may be penetrated by an arrow or bullet entering the buttocks of a person on horseback.

Forwood describes the removal of a vesical calculus, the nucleus of which was an iron arrow-head, as follows: "Sitimore, a wild Indian, Chief of the Kiowas, aged forty-two, applied to me at Fort Sill, Indian Territory, August, 1869, with symptoms of stone in the bladder.