. Transactions of the Pathological Society of Philadelphia . e regarding a plastic operationfor the restoration of his nose, which had been accidently demolished. He informed me that four weeks before, his shotgun burst, causinghim to fall unconscious to the ground, where he lay for some time. Noone was with him save a small boy, who was also prostrated by the ex-plosion. After a time both recovered from the shock and started for MISCELLANEOUS. 335 the house, which was half a mile distant. The injured man was com-pletely blinded and cried out wildly, My eyes are out! He was bleed-ing profusely
. Transactions of the Pathological Society of Philadelphia . e regarding a plastic operationfor the restoration of his nose, which had been accidently demolished. He informed me that four weeks before, his shotgun burst, causinghim to fall unconscious to the ground, where he lay for some time. Noone was with him save a small boy, who was also prostrated by the ex-plosion. After a time both recovered from the shock and started for MISCELLANEOUS. 335 the house, which was half a mile distant. The injured man was com-pletely blinded and cried out wildly, My eyes are out! He was bleed-ing profusely. Two physicians were summoned, who controlled thehemorrhage by cold compresses without discovering that a foreign bodywas lodged in the head, the patient not suspecting its presence. For the first two weeks both eyes were closed and the whole facegreatly swollen, but after that the swelling subsided and the woundhealed. The only symptoms he experienced were a great pressure and pain inhis head, at times causing symptoms of insanity, manifesting themselves. Diagram approximately indicating the position occupied by the foreign body. in a desire to do violence to persons around him. This feeling, he says,continued until after the operation presently to be described. On examination I discovered a piece of iron protruding for one-sixthof an inch from the granulations of the healed wound, which I recog-nized as a piece of the trigger-plate. I informed the patient of thegravity of his case, the risks attending extraction of the body, and thedangerous consequences to which he was liable if it was not determined to submit to an operation, which I performed in myoffice with the assistance of Dr. Houston Mifflin, of Columbia. The parts were laid open freely, when a careful examination revealedthe following state of affairs : The breech, trigger-plate, aud screw of the gun had been driven intohis skull at the point of junction of the frontal with the nasal bones,fracturing the
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