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Show ! " I i lr ' ' M - D. v a Iato His Daiy by Dallct tbt " Wcundcti Him : ' : lnYCivil War Battle. CHICAGO, Sept. 8. Hit mind wrecked by a most unusual injury, medical expert ex-pert hold out little hope of restoring MaJ. H C. Moderwell, a ClYil war veteran, vet-eran, to his normal mental condition. The case la the most peculiar, in medical history. - The Major waa wounded? at Mt. Star- ling, Ky, while leading h!s cavalry. A bullet struck him in the left MJe. In a pocket at the time was a gold pen and holder. The missile struck the holder, carrying into the body fragments pf tha, pen and pieces of the holder. The bullet passed through the body. The fragments frag-ments of the pen and gold holderre-mained holderre-mained in. the body. 1 Siwgeor.s on the battlefield and- in the improvised hospitals hos-pitals failed to notice the metal In the wound, and after months it healed, but the pieces of pen and holder remained Inside to torture the veteran year afterward. after-ward. Long after fie had removed from Bu-cyrus, Bu-cyrus, O.V whre MaJ. Moderwell entered the army, the wound began to trouble him. In, 1875 he became ill with -hat-appeared t6 be a carbuncle. When, it waa opened the surgeons found the point of the pea had) worked itself up to the neck, and they took it out This gave some relief, but his nervous condition showed plainly that there were still some fragment of the pen in close proximity to a nerve center. Recently an X-ray examination was made, and it was found that there were foreign substances, probably pieces of the pen, c1q to the spinal cord. . Of late MaJ. Moderweirs memory i failed hlra entirely, and he was taken to Columbus. O., by his wife, who is an aunt of former Attorney-General Frank Monnettof the Buckeye State. |