Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-12-09

months he was sunstroke and afterward
nearly starved to death, and was only
paroled when his captors supposed him to
be without the ability to do further ser
vice. In long march the veins in bis left
leg burst, and he almost died from hem
orrhage.
MORE TROUBLE.
At Charlottesville he was knocked down
by spent cannon ball, and while lying
PROSTATE was run over by tield-piece OF
six.pound caliber, which passed directly
over his head and body. After recovering
again and getting his discharge he under
took one day to cut down tree, but by
not uncommon accident the butt OF the tree
flew up as the tree fell and this man stand
ing in the way, as was TO have been expect
ed of q man of his habits, was knocked a
distance, he says, OF forty feet. He lay on
the snow inseusIble for eight hours, and On
getting his senses again found that his skull
was broken and his brains were leaking
out, and that eight of his teeth were gone.
In three months ne was entirely we'll
that is, all that was left was well-but in
hauling some blasting powder he managed
to ignite it, and the less of one eye was the
consequence. These were the principal
accidents this man related, but he said he
had had many minor ones. In spite of all
he had been through he was well and
claimed to be ready to fight any man of his
age and weight, but complained that his
blood was so thin that he was unable TO
keep warm even IN summer. In olden
time such man would have been thought
by the superstitious to be destined for the
gallows, but there is some question whether
hanging would be a successful operation
Whether the story is true or not, it is all
possible, and there is nothing in it that
cannot be duplicated in the medical rec
ords, excepting the fact OF so many acct
dents occurring to the same victim.
To MULTIPLY THE LIST
OF men who have survived mortal in
juries, or what have been supposed to be
mortal, would be to make this article a
catalogue, as limited above There are
such cases without number, and each has
its 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 irrational fear that
sometimes animates would. be suicides he
ran away to escape arrest. He remained
hidden IN an clubhouse for over forty eight
hours. Then, being hungry, he crawled
out and surrendered to the police. He
was faint with the loss of blood, and
his windpipe was completely severed.
An unfortunate man who hangs around
| an Eighth avenue saloon in this city
carries bullet in his brain cavity, which
it has been found, by the use of the
indicator used by surgeons), now lies
| some four inches below it's frat resting
| place. This bullet entered his temple
the hole being still apparent-during the
war of the rebellion. He was strict
teetotaler before and during the war, but
| since he was shot he has had a terrible
thirst for liquor. A common remark OF
The saloon. keeper is, " Don't give Tom a
| glass it'll make him blind drunk" There
is no end to such cases, but another
branch of the subject should be men,
| toned. 1t is a well known and common
fact that man may so habituate himself
to the use of poisons (of many kinds that
he may take with IMMUNITY and carry
| around in HE system a sufficient amount
! W MIL my OLbSL ItbablN IuG COUl-
monest instance of this is in the use OF
| nicotine.
KE-SwALLowERS.
There are thousands of men who have
been IL the habit for years of inhaling mot
swallowing, but breathing) the smoke of
| cigars or cigarettes. II any one of them
should die and an autopsy should be made
his lungs could be squeezed in a common
lemon. squeezer and enough of the pure oil
| of nicotine would exude to kill dozen,
| perhaps hundred men. Yet the habit,
| despite what the doctors say, does not
always kill, or if it does the time it takes
| enables the victim to die of old age first.
A less frequent but still common case is
! that of the abuse of laudanum. Two
| friends of the writer were once playing
! billiards and ordered cocktails One swal.
lowed the others drink by mistake, and it
took two physicians twelve hours to bring
him out of his danger. The second player
had the lsudaEum habit, and what almost
killed his freed was his ordinary drink.
| Not many nor tins ago a man was taken
to the Charity Hospital, New York, who
had been for a long time the victim Of the
morphine habit. This had grown on him
to such an ex ent that the poison swallowed
had no effect whatever upon him. He had
to take it by hypodermic injection to OBJ,
tain the desired effect, and, being poor and
without the proper tools, he would hack
| mis- skin with knife. or scissors, or any
sharp tool he could get, and rub the poison
In. In this unCouth manner he took enough
| daily to
KILL AN ORDINARY MAN
! A dozen times over, a similar case with
other poisons was reported last MAY by
DIR. Thomas, OF the Chambers-street Hos
| pital, to whom was brought a gentleman
who had shut himself up in 4 hotel room
and ate and drank nothing but great quan,
titles Of champagne. When he was
brought to the hospital he called for bro
mide and chlorsl, saying he was in the habit
of taking both. The usual amount oi
choral given in such cases The was border,
ing on delirum tremens) is fifteen grains,
but, considering what he said, Dr. Thomas
! gave him thirty Xains of choral and ninety
! grains of bromide, and repeated the dose
IN two hours. In twenty.iour hours he
had taken 6Sj grains of bromide and 81
| grains of chloral, and the drugs had not
! produced any apparent result. In seventy.
| two hours he had taken 900 grains of bro.
mlde, 4l2 grains of choral and five. eighths
Of a grain of morphia. This is SAID tc
have been a larger amount than is on record
elsewhere, but the man got over his
"spree and laughed when the doctor
! warned him of recurrence Of it.
| With such cases in their books it is not
marvellous that physicians always say,
"While there is life there is hope u New
! York Herald.