The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-11-03
singular Cases of Injury TO the HUI
man Iody.

y writer in the October number oil
Oid and Nc,C has put together some
curipus stories about the human body
especially those which are illustrated
in tie army museum ut Washington
Explaiuing why he entities his article
" Broken Bones" lac says: Broken
Eugii,l,p was the description once APP
piled 10y Punch Ia the victims OF rail-
syav accident. When sympathiZers
supued to the Texan revolutioniSis
carefully packed cannon and shell, tue
Ills of la0iug dercribed them as Hol-
Iosy Ware. SotEe meanings fwords,
however common in themselves, de
r.e5-d for force upon their recipient To
enc man-t0 you, ii may be, amlabie
hat prosaic reaaer-' broken bones
may convey nothing, your nelghbor
Ia the country may translate it as 3
potential fertilizer; TO :; third party II
may suggest much mere than these
pages can develop"
An exceedingly curious, and, so lar
- Z, indicates tie possibilities OF IA
.ure, instructive ~pcc!men, Is the lnl-
lowing: \ soldier was admitted to Ire
hospital in Baltimore after one OF the
Virginia battles, with loss of vision III
the
RIGHT EYE,
although he external injury to the or
can was not remarkable. He could give
uo special account of the wound,
nr al the course or character of the
missile. Il seemed L. he one of the
ordinary minor casualties of a battle
that occur, one cannot tell exactly how.
ihe leCt eve was slightly prominent,
iut It's functions were unimpaircd.
me wound healed speedily, and the
Iaan was permitted II go about the
cay freely On a hospital pass.
More than two months subsequently
hp died after ~ illness of few days.
an examination then showed that a
t-.,ucdial lsaI. had entered the skull
through The right eye, and was firmly
lodged close 10 and directly behind
tine Iyft eve, = part of whose DOny
easing was somewhat broken and dis
lsaccI: and that nature had thrown
uut rev bone sufficiently To plaster II
IN Is place, and Ia nearly entirely
c,u~, 81 OT;ii-e or entrance. The ina
mediate cau-e of death was small
:lr-cc,s in tie brain where it, specia
covering rested upon the bullet But
sim, must have existed only toward
the close Il life: and one naturally
;uqirc-, " II bullet can lie for weeks
without Cccasioniug aPpreciable mis-
,hi-f # being suspected, why may i;
lrut dn s1 for months? Who can pre-
s-II"e TIE limij OF lis existence?
SOME PULLING INCIDENS
o,..a-irnaIly happened. one man had
hisarn broken below, and again above
his elbow, 10y tine same bullet; which
appears strange until il was known
Jhat the limb was bent az the time il
was strIck. \ case may be youched
r. where orc bullet made five open
Iu.rS in the skin aud dill not break
bone. In another bali lodged i'll the
INNER part OF tie Tigh. thigh, and
s.-vrfa. mouths afscTW5rd it WIS cut
80. from pear tie Jeff knee. y mau
49, Mine Ran had TWO pocket-kGiye G.
-g..rreu and driven in his thigh.
one hundred fragments OF the knives
we've removed during life, and seven
as;r death, Of which there i little
;t.uht that they, and Let the bullet
were the direct cause. At Antietam,
salGier received 3 bullet III bis
mouth. After the same battle soldier
,-.ucle.i over a loaded shell, cracking
nUfs upon il; bis careles>Gess was fol
lowed 10y = speedy explosion aEG
death.
Accidents IF this character, due to
i-uorauce or folly, were not frequent
IT, the war. one Is ly-cTibed thus: y
-p.a;-r attempted 10 solve the qusS-
F..u W e:lcr a she'll would 60 oil by
placing Il on one side Of a large tree
While he, from the other side, stretched
lisa-n arouad aud struck il with aham
r.er expecting % withdraw his hand
u.!fsLfv enough To avoid injury. The
..aff and the arm both went 0ii. The
writer oyce saw two irfa-try soldiers
iH fuat Of Richmond, pick up anG
lurl upon the ground, n few feet from
i'gn. and exploded shell, to decide
whether Il was Of the " time' or the
80 aercuSsion1 variety. Raw soldiers
a!e reckless almost beyond belief.
4 LIEUTENANT OF MosBY's
command was captured, wounded
rear Harper's Ferry. his right arm
was broken below The shoulder; but
tie bullet, which had not been eX-
.sact,-d, could not he found. When
lie died. several weeks efterwaTd, the
Iul!et was discovered lodged III the
-p;ue. one Of the bones Of which ii
lad adly broken, below the level Of
lIse external wound, where Its pres
cuce had not been suspected 10y himself
or his attendants. Ii must, of course,
axe struck bis arm wien it was eXten-
s.,diu the same line with the back, and
Iave followed lis long axis.
When Scdgwick advanced upon
FrCdcr.cksE in May, 1868, one Of
mis- m-u fell without experiencing
rain: and it was found that his thigh
Vas broken. lie was admitted to the
l.a-giral in Washington five days al
forward,
WHEN THERE was No EXTERNAL.
WOUND.
nf the thigh, and it was presumed
HAT the injury came from a spent
round shot. He died i'm about sIE
weeks, aud the thigh-bonc was found
lgak,d and sp.iBtered in the middle
wish q cuncidal bullet, itself partly
sulff. lodged. \ small wound that
lad lurg been CLOSED was found near
lire knee; and the course Of the ball
lad Ieeu so tuItuOus that it had col
l.p-,d upon itself, and 40 discharge
Lad Indicated the track OF entrance.