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Show Strange, if truk. The following, from an eastern exchange, is a subject sub-ject for surgical reflection: On the 19th of March, 1SG9, a girl (whether accidentally or otherwise, we are not at present informed) shot a boy named Joseph Downing, who lived in Man-land near he Delaware state line. The ball entered his head. Dr. Thompson, of Gumboro, dressed I the wound and the boy slow'y recovered, re-covered, and has evar since been able to go about, perform w rk, ka. He was subject, however, to severe attacks of headache, which some imes confined con-fined him to his bed for several days in succession. Recently, he died, and .Dr. Thompson, assisted by Miers B. Betts, made a post mortem examination. examina-tion. The doctor found the bail without with-out difficulty by a laree abscess which had formed around it, or rather to one side. It was a little longitudinal fissure over the corpus callosum or great cerebral commissure. The abscess ab-scess contained two fluid ounces of puss. It is something remarkable if not unprecedented tor a person to thui! live for thirteen months with a leaden bullet embedded in his brain, though it is by no means unusual for persons to recover through whose brain a bullet has passed. |