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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER XIV
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Kugler recites the description of the case of an arrow-wound of the thorax, complicated by frightful dyspnea and blood in the pleural cavity and in the bronchi, with recovery.
Smart extracted a hoop-iron arrow-head, 1 3/4 inches long and 1/2 inch in breadth, from the brain of a private, about a month after its entrance.

About a dram of pus followed the exit of the arrow-head.
After the operation the right side was observed to be paralyzed, and the man could not remember his name.

He continued in a varying condition for a month, but died on May 13, 1866, fifty-two days after the injury.

At the postmortem it was found that the brain-tissue, to the extent of 3/4 inch around the track of the arrow as a center, was softened and disorganized.

The track itself was filled with thick pus which extended into the ventricles.
Peabody reports a most remarkable case of recovery from multiple arrow-wounds.


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