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Show f A REMARKABLE CASE. A Bullet Passed Through a St. Louis Man's Brain, and Vet Ue Recovered. Emil Witzkv. afrpr at the City hospital for over two months with a bullet in his brain, is now walking walk-ing about nearly as well as any one and will be discharged a cured man in the QTurse of a few days, Witzky's case is one of the most remarkable re-markable that ever came tinder the notice no-tice of St. Louis surgeons. It is mnch stranger than that of the man Tesson, who attempted to commit suicide in Forest parka year ago. Tesson lingered between life and death about a month, but finally died from the effects of the bullet, which lodged in the center of bis head. Tesson never got up from bis bed after sending the leaden pellet into his brain, and for that matter was tra- J counscioua noarlj all the time. Witzky 18 as rational as any man walking the i etreels. He snot htuimu ti iu3 . u.t eye after having trouble with his wife and mother-in-law. From the paralysis it caused in his right leg Dr. Marks decided that the ball lodged in the back of his head on the left side. The jagged boe Jn the forehead finally healed over, and after remaining in a half dead state for nearly near-ly a week Witzky came to. He was not able to move for fully a month on account ac-count of the paralysis. No sensation was in the right leg whatever. Needles could be thrust into it, or it could be-pinched be-pinched or burned without his feeling the pain. Three or four weeks ago the paralyEie began to disappear. It was thought strange indeed by Dr. Marks and tbe other physicians, for the bullet had not been removed, and no reason was apparent for tbe,,deadness" to disappear. dis-appear. Vet go away it did, and since that time bis recovery has been steady as clockwork. How that 88 caliber bullet bul-let plunged through six cr eight inches of his brain and remained resting among the tissues without causing instant death or perpetual Idiocy passes the comprehension compre-hension of every scientific man who has beard of his case. St. Louis Globe Democrat. |