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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER XIV
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If the scars are at all indicative, the bayonet must have passed through the left lobe of the liver and border of the diaphragm.

Finally he was struck by a pistol-ball at the lower angle of the left lower jaw, this bullet issuing on the other side of the neck.

As exemplary of the easy manner in which he bore his many injuries during a somewhat protracted convalescence, it may be added that he amused his comrades by blowing jets of water through the apertures on both sides of his neck.

Beside the foregoing injuries he received many minor ones, which he did not deem worthy of record or remembrance.

The greatest disability he suffered at the time of applying for a pension resulted from an ankylosed knee.


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