. Annals of surgery . lion who gave him one severe craunch, which piercedthe thigh just below the large trochanter, one of the upper teeth pass-ing through the flesh just outside of the femoral artery. The otherupper tooth being broken off only contused the parts. The twolower canines passed through the vastus externus and under the quad-riceps extensor, tearing the muscles from the bone, in addition toproducing two large punctured wounds. The party was taken to theProtestant Hospital where the author treated him and converted the TRAUMATISMS INFLICTED BY ANIMALS. 433 punctured wounds into ope
. Annals of surgery . lion who gave him one severe craunch, which piercedthe thigh just below the large trochanter, one of the upper teeth pass-ing through the flesh just outside of the femoral artery. The otherupper tooth being broken off only contused the parts. The twolower canines passed through the vastus externus and under the quad-riceps extensor, tearing the muscles from the bone, in addition toproducing two large punctured wounds. The party was taken to theProtestant Hospital where the author treated him and converted the TRAUMATISMS INFLICTED BY ANIMALS. 433 punctured wounds into open wounds by free incisions, washing theparts thoroughly with peroxide of hydrogen. Gauze drainage was in-serted for a few days, the wound was kept thoroughly cleansed andrepair followed rapidly without suppuration, without a rise of temper-ature, and the patient had no symptoms of nervous irritability what-ever ; made a perfect recovery and was discharged from the hospitalMay 19, just four weeks after he was Grizzly bear injuries. Grizziy Bear Injury.—On June 21, 1899, David Doty, an oldbear hunter of Piedmont, Wyoming, was admitted to the WyomingGeneral Hospital suffering from numerous severe lacerations, the re-sult of coming in contact with an old she grizzly who bit and scratchedhim in a most frightful manner. The victim was sixty-two years ofage, white, married, an American, and had spent a large portion of 434 R. HARVEY REED. his life in hunting, and with the exception of rheumatism had alwaysbeen healthy. On June 19, while out hunting, he came across a she grizzly withsome cubs, and, unfortunately, ran on to them before he was aware theywere in the brush. The first thing he knew he was struck by the hugepaw of the grizzly and knocked down, when she immediately pro-ceeded to scratch and bite him practically from head to foot, as willbe shown in the accompanying photograph. After having injured him in this terrible manner she voluntarilyleft him, after which h
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