The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-01-28
THE JOURNAL.
E1traoting Bullets from Wounds by
the Aid Of Electricity.

EIIracunE Bullets from W 0uAuS bA
the Aid Of Electricity.
A writer in the last number of the
. GeRaemaRs Magaziae says; @Cure
lng should be as important as killing
in the art Of war, extracting your
enemy's bullets from your own flesh
is the next duty after putting your
bullets into his flesh. Now bullet
probing is a tiresome and painful
operation. one that ought to be re-
duced to the perfection ofslmple GER
taintv. So humane philosophers
have thought; and they have done
their best to give their thinkings
tapoibilitv. But we are bounded by
orr means: and while there was
none known whereby a lump of bur
ie1 lead could be told from a frag-
ment OF shattertd bone, probing was
slow work. However, the next time
far be it-that wholesale bullet
extraction has to be performed, it IS
to be expected that the army surg
cons labOTs win be lightened by the
help that electricity viii afford; for
two inventors have independently
proposed methods ofselrching for,
ard drawing out metallic missiles
from the wounds they have inflicted.
Both men told their ideas to the
French Institute at one and the same
meeting during the past mouth. ".
Trauve was one; he who made the
electrical Jewels that delighted fash
ionable Paris for q few months two
years ago. His new bulet-probe is
q double pointed needle, each point
being connected by q wire with a lit
tie electric battery and q bell, which
rings whenever the two needle points
are united electrically, that is to say,
whenever they both touch a piece Of
metal. With this diving-rod, bullet
searching IS q simple business. The
suspected part OF the body is prooed
with it, and the instant the points
touch lead the bell Announces the fact
The bullet found, the worst half Of
the exwactors task is over. This
plan was suggested by an English
man, I fancy, some two years ago,
but not put TO trial till Mr. Trauve
made an instrument The other pro
posed is Of more limited application.
N. Melsens is its author and he
promises to draw fragments Of iron
or steel from a flesh wound by the
help of powerful magnets. He can
do nothing with lead; though, be-
cause it does not follow the load
stone. Trouve's is the best idea.
There is quainmess in the notion OF
a bullet telegraphing its Whereabouts
A Man Drinks Twenty-Nne Pints Of
Hot Water and then Yields up the
Ghost.
A German named George Seel, 35
years ofage, living at No. AS Race
street, and whose occupation was
that Of pedlar. died this morning,
about seven o clock, from the effects,
it is supposed, of medicines admins
tered to MIN by oneOttoAschenbom,
for some time pasta a barkeeper at
Loewen Garden. It appears that
Aschenbom visited the house Of the
deceased, who had been suffering
from severe chronic rheumatism
several years, during the afternoon
yesterday, and insisted on treating
him for the disease, saying at the
time "that he could cure him in
twenty-four hours" Elated with
the prospect of being restored to
good health and activity SO soon, the
unsuspecting man agreed to submit
to the treatment Of the Eould-be
physician, and forthwith was infor-
med that it would be Necessary for
him to take Il pints Of hot water
medicated with few drops ola liquid
which AschanboTn handed him in a
small phial.
The water was Immediately pro
cured by the anxious wife Of the
sick man who had been an invalid
so long, and at precisely six O'Clock
last evening the first pint, tinctTed
with a small quantity Of the mixture
left by Aschenborn, was administer.
ed to the patient. This was follow
ed by other doses in rapid success
sion until twenty-nine pints had
been drunk, when the deceased be-
came very sick, and commenced yo.
hitting. During the night he was
attacked by continual spells of vom-
iting, and it was found utterly i'm
possible for him to further comply
with the direction of his physician
This morning he died, as above
stated, and suspicion was at one a
reused that he had been poisoned
by Ashenbom, who was immediate
" arrested and lodged in the Ham
mond Street Station House for safe
keeping. The Coroner was notified
of the circumstance, and will hold
an inquest on the body Of the IN
fortunate man this afternoon, when
further particulars of his singular
death may be developed.
He leaves q wife and five children
the youngest Of whom is an infant
six weeks old, to mourn his untime-
" loss, and it is to be hoped that a
thorough investigation Of the some
what mysterious affair will be made.