The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1882-11-16

rolled when his captors supposed him
to be without the ability to do
further service. III long march
the veins in his left leg burst,
and hc almost died of hcmorrhage. At
Charlottesville he was knocked down
by spent cannon ball. and while lying
PROSTATE wa rnn over by n field piece
Of ix.pounl calibcr. which passed lii
icctly over his head and body. After
recovering again md getting his dis
charge he undertook one day to cut
down tree. but, by not uncommon
accident, the butt Of the tree flew up rs
the tree fell, and this man standing in
the way, rs was to have been expected
Of d man Of his habits, was knocked .
distance, he says, Of forty feet. He lay
on the snow inscnsihle for eight hours.
and on getting his senses again found
that his skull was broken and his brains
were leaking ont, and that eight Of his
teeth were gone. In three months he
was entirely well--that is, Nil that was
left was we'll, but in handling some
blasting powder lie managed to ignite
it, and the loss of one eye was the con-
sequence. These were the principal
accidents this man related, but he said
he had had many minor ones. III spite
Of MI he had been through he was well
and claimed to be ready to fight any
man Of his age and weight, but COM
planned that his blood was SO thin that
he was unable to keep warm even in
summer. In olden time such man
would Ii we been thought by the super
stiiiuus destined for the gallows, Int
there is some question whether hanging
would he successful operation.
Whether the story is true or not. it is
all possible, and there is nothing in il
tina cannot be duplicated III the medi-
cal record, except the fact Of SO many
accidents to the same victim.
To multiply the list Of men Who
have survived mortal injuries. or
what have been supposed to be mortal.
would be to make this article cata-
logue. as limited above. There are
such. cases without number, and each
has it's own popularity. bill" Poole,
the gambler, it is well known, lived
some days with bullet in his heart. A
negro in this city, some ten years ago,
murdered his mistress and then cut his
own throat with the same razor with
which he had killed her. Then with
the irritated fear that sometimes ami
mates wonld-be suicides, liza ran away to
escape arrest. He remained hidden in
an clubhouse for over forty-eight hours.
Then, being hungry, he craMled out and
surrendered to the police. He was
faint with the loss of blood, and his
windpipc was completely severed. An
unfortunate man who hangs around an
Eighth avenue saloon, in this city, car
ries bullet in lis brain cavity, which,
it has been found by the use Of the "in-
dicator' fused by surgeonsl, now lies
some four inches below its first resting
place This bullet entered his temple,
the hole being still apparent, during the
war Of the Rebellion. He was strict
teetota,ler before and during the war,
but since he was shot he has had ter
rible thirst for liquor. A COM
mon remark of the saloon-keeper
is. Don't give Tom glass: it'll make
him blind drunk. There is no end
to such cases, but another branch Of
the subject should be mentioned. 1t is
a well-known and common fact that q
man may SO hahitua'e himself to the
u-e OF poisons tof many kinds that he
may take with impnnity and carry
aroan in his system Il sufficient amount
To kill twenty other men. Probably
Tire commoaest instance of this is the
use of nicotine. There a,e hundreds,
perhaps thousands, Of men in this city
who have been in the habit for years Of
inhaling mot swallowing. Int breath
ingi the smoke of cigars or cigarettes.
Ii any one OF them should die and an
autopsy should be made. his lungs
could he squeezed in a common lemon
squeez.r. and enough of the pure oil Of
nicotine would exule to kill dozen,
perhaps a hundred. men. Yet the hibit,
despite what the doctors say. does not
always kill. or. ii it does. tie time it
takes enables the victim to die OF old
age first. 4 less frequent. but still
common, case. is that Of the abuse OF
laulanum. Two friends Of the writer
were once playing billiards. and ordered
cocktails. One swallowed the others
drink by mistake, and it took two ply
sicians twelve hours to bring him ont
OF his danger. The second player had
the laudanum habit, and what almost
killed his friend was his ordinary
drink.
Not many months ago q man was
taken to the Charity Hospital who had
been for long time the victim Of the
morphine habit. This had grown on
him to such an extent that the poison
/ la
him, He had to take il by hypoaermic
injections to obtain the desired effect,
and. being poor and without the proper
tools. he would hack his skin with knife
or scissors or any sharp tool he could
get and rub the poison in. In this un'
conth manner he took enough daily to
kill an ordinary man a dozen times
over. 4 similar case with other poisons
was reported last May by DIR. Thomas,
OF the Chambers Street Hospital, I,
whom was brought gentleman who
hal shn. himself up in a hotel room
and ate nothing and drank nothing but
great quantities of champagne. Wher
/ he was broughtto the hospital he called
for bromide and choral, saying he was
in the habit of taking both. The nsua
amour, Of chloral given in such cases
I The was bordering on delirinm tremens
Is fifteen grains, but, considering What
he sid. DR.. Thomas gave him thirty
grains Of choral and ninety grains o
bromide. and repeated the dose in tw,
hours. In twenty-fonr hours he In.
tiken 6so grains of bromide and 81;
grains Of chloral. and the drug had mo-
produced any apparent result. In sew
enty-two hours he had taken go grains
Of bromide. il2 grains of choral an,
ii.e-.ighihs 81 grain Of marphia
This is said TO have been large
amount than is on record elsewhere, In
1 tn. Imam got over his spree. M.
| laughed when the doctor warned hin
/ against recurrence of it.
\ With such eases III their books il i
not marvellous that physicians Away,
say, While there is life there is hope.
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