Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1871-11-18
Singular Gases Of Injury to the Hu.
man Body.

: man Body.
A writer in the October number G
f Old dad Nc,O has put together sum
. curious stories about the human bod,
especially those which are illustrated
in the army museum at Washington
Explaining why he entities his articl,
" Broken BOnes,n he says: Broker
English" was the description once an
piled by P,atch to the victims of rail
way accident. When sympathizer.
shipped to the Texan reyoiutionist,
carefully packed cannon and shell, the
oils Of lading dercribed them as Hol
low Ware. SOthe meanings Of ofwords
however common in themselves, de,
pend for force upon their recipient To
one man-tO you, it may be, amiabIe
but prOsaic reader broken bones
may convey nothing, your neighbor
in the country may translate it as =
| potential fertilizer; to a third party il
may suggest much more than these
pages can develop.p
An exceedingly curious, and, so far
as it indicates the possibilities Of ma
/ ture, instructive specimen, is the fol-
| lowing: A soldier was admitted to the
hospital in Baltimore after one of the
| Virginia battles, with loss Of vision III
| the
RIGHT EYE,
although the external injury to the Or
gan was notremarkablc. He could give
no special account Of the wound,
or Of the course or character of the
missile. 1t seemed to be one OF the
ordinary minor casualties Of q battle
thaI occur, one cannot tell exactly how.
the left eye was slightly prominent,
Out Its functions were unimpaired.
The wound healed speedily, and the
man was permitted 10 80 about the
city freely on hospital pass.
More than two months subsequently,
he died after an illness Of few davs
An examination then showed that a
conodial ball had entered the skull
through the right eye, and was firmly
lodged close to and directly behind
the left eye, a part of whose bony
casing was somewhat broken and dis
Int no1, hnno i''IS ,di''tG l'u tllLoNn
in its niono o,'d n'i'Lie''.iy +e w. PIasteI II
close its Oritice or entrance. The i'm
mediate cause of death was q small
abscess in the brain where its special
covering rested upon the bullet. But
thn % oinen I',SV % siHfo az eAls'eu only toward
inoicao m % u r. ii'T T,,I,oi anu oIe naIuraIiy
miiihom. oaaoaioi' ouiiee gan ne lII weeks
ohiaf" oIO a. hoi assuming ,is all'FeClaoie mis-
nof do ~ So % far n6oHtIC SoH'IS0'eGj WV MHny may IL
""S Wv ~ ~ iiloHtilS 10 can pre-
''i'e '''0 iiii''' Vi l'9 eA'S'ehce
SOME PUAzLlNG lNClDENS
occasionally happened. One man had
hisarm broken below, and again above
his elbow, by the same bullet: which
appears strange until il was known
that the limb was bent at the time it
was struck, a case may be vouch9d
for Where one bullet made five oppn-
ings in the skin and did not break
bone. In another ball lodged in the
upper part Of the right thigh, and
several months afterWard it was cut
out from near the left knee. A man
at Mine Run had two pocket-kniyes
shattered and driven in his Thigh.
One hundred fragments Of the knives
were removed during life, and seven
alteT dealh, Of Whlch there IS little
Ug%o Uoro tHo e"i diraoi ooga "nu nU' ',e DulIey
80 soIdior @ 'r'c roceivoJ aT nI,at nI Antie'"l, ;
,,,oDtb 9VIo'' rto ioCFi " .ii puicv III ils
nro'ah, o l,Sri ,o [i'e 1 r"ilG I J'lIIe soiGlel
nt o W e. ~ " io,a"YJ "ai sLei, 'lacAlg
inwod In h ,9 sooI, Ui'i i'iesSnGs' ,.I sS toiI
Io"th ] " 'i'''J eNp'o'ion anu
Hanidonts or ui, o,ou.t. ,.
f,,rNrn"on ~ f,Ii,. t,i' rl,a' go Uuc W
;1 thau,ar Snn'i, TaIo.iio, Tuu ii"I tie,lu'n'
eol5iar ottan,ntnI = - oi soi,'n ,D'u W. ,nuS "A
ion I,,l'otS,',. '>N >oII III ,,.,Tl 80 ,.io IuGs
nIaai,,. - o', ,'',Ii. niio 'V"," VI! W
rSia 3o iron, ,j 10 ot+v o+ar;J w., i't 81 ieG
hi ,'io a 'e, ] ,U' ,I,e otrea 9t4q t. SIIe{c,,c %
nor ' y, nrnot; az 0t,, m itrnn' GvH 1t %
lnio,y Iv onor97 ~ 10 "I,,'"-i% o,id i; us n1ri %
raIi a,S t2o 9mS w Icy, Wv nv ~
,,.r;ta. n,oa , " t"a ,'i Ev,!, oii' NC
in froot ~ piobn,o,,I ii'',ioy ,ioIy 1Ul'lIi ,
Lnri nnon tba %rnnnd UI loy f.ot op fsnn, ",,,
tbon, ond nx,,ioond ] sLaI III" ~ 'I Ja3Il ai2Ii
whether it was of the =" timen or the
percussion" variety. Raw soldiers
are reckless almost beyond belief
A LIEUTENANT OF MosBY's
command was canturpd wounded
near Harper's Ferry. his RIGHT arm
was broken below tbe shoulder. but
tbe bullet which had NOT hoan ox.
traeted, could not be found. When
he died, several weeks afterward tle
bullet was discovered lodged in thp
spine, one of the bones of which II
had ladly broken. below the level Of
the external wound. where its nres.
elCe had not been SuSDectSu bV himself .
or his attendants. IL must, OF course,
nave s.Iuch hlS arm Wileh u was extern
ueu III : lne same me WIN me Oack, anu
nave lollo%eG It's long ANS
~ heI SeuSWick advanced upon
! ! ILeueIlckSoGTg, IN May, Iooo, one OF
MS men lelI "lchoui experiencing
pam ana 1t was found that his thlgh .
was broken he was admitted TO the
hospital IN washington hVe DAYS al
ler"aru,
WHEN THERE WAS No EXTERNAL
wor,ND.
Of u,o ,h;oh al - ,.o, ,,ro,,,,,,.l
tbot tho niS, anu =. vas Pte'uilleu u
rn,'nd rn", 'rJ nha lJ" C'lme dioa uUiA W q Spen.
an U"u Snoi amI ,o lt h IiT" ho, va nnoG| f, si1
I",aI.I n "uG IN 'uo tniS nv Nv ''' loHiiu