Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-12-26

a singular thing about it, ~ said DR. Don.
lin, was that the weapon grazed the pitui-
tary body without injUring il. If that had
been injured, he would have died at once"
And what is the pituitary bOdyn
1T used TO be thought TO be the seat OF the
mind" continued the doctor, 'because it is So
securely guarded by nature, but ANTAGONISTS
now regard ii rs a rudimcntary eye"
It is usually the breaking into some Of the
best guarded businesses Of the human body
that occasions the unusual accidents OF which
We were talking, and the doctor went Oh 10
discourse OF these. A man almost always
dies, In medical phraseolOgy, from the brain,
the heart or the stomach. Sometimes it is
difficult, as in death from shock, or from ex-
haustiOn, or old age, 10 tell In which OF the
threo Glasses the cass belongs. The infinitely
numerous ways in which these organs may
be affected make almost every death peculiar
in some degree
1t Is found that IA puncture Of the medulla
oblongnta at the junction OF the spine and
the brain viii produce instant and almost
painless death. This very seldom happens by
accident, but is the common way physicians
employ in killing animals for dissection 1t
"a done with IA -bare budkin,n aud might
easily be done 20 IA human being with cam
brio needle by any one who knows anatomy
well enough TO touch the spot.
Seeds not infrequently lodge in the appen-
dix vermlfOrmis, tiny sac at the juncturs
Of the large and small intestines In dissec-
ton IL l. often found that small seeds like
those Of the raspberry or the straw berry are
~ lodged, and they seem TO do no harm, but
II larger object, like the pit of an orange OF
the seed Of u grape, happens to find its way
thither on its progress through the body, ma
turs is not always able 10 disiodgs it, IL then
swells and the result Is death. DIR. Draper
the eminent physician, died in that way with
an orange pat.
THE GUTENNCTH TRAGEDY.
Several cases are on record which are sim
liar 10 the famous Gutennuth tragedy. That
occurred in New York some eight years ago,
and attracted wide notice on account Of the
romantic stories about prominent people
who we're connected with il IN one wny or
another Gutennuth was walking on Seventh
avenue with n lady late one evening, when "A
man, whose identity was never discovered
first insulted the lady and then knocked
Gutenuuth down. He was III FOR several
days, but was thought TO he recovering. and
one day he eluded his nurse nndsteft ms house
for an hour or two He then went home and
died, and at the autopsy it was found TINT
his skull was badly fractured
a still more remarkable case Is on the rec
ords Of the Chambers street hospital of "A
man who was struck behind the ear by the
shaft Of "a wagon he was lodging across
the street. The shaft penetrated his head to
the depth of AT inch and "A half, carving
ahead Of It a splintered disk of the same diam
eter with itself, which IVES broken, or rather
cut, out of the skull by the blow. The man
walked unaided 10 the hospital and lived for
an hour and half after getting there.
HIS vitality, though so great as 20 astonish
tue physicians, was hardly greater than that
Of Bill Poole, the notorious gambler, who
lived for more than twenty-four hours after
he had been shot through the heart. OF
course he could not have lived anything like
rs long II the bullet had cut any of the YES
sells of that organ, but men have been known
TO live minute or so even after that had
happened. In one OF the famous Kentucky
brawls, a man who was so killed went 10 his
Office door after receiving his death wound.
and leveling his shot gun, fired and killed the
man who hadalready killed him. The man
who shot first died first.
DEATH FROM HIccoUGHING.
Ii is not very rarely that a case is reported
OF some person dying from the effect of long
continued fit of hiccogfRfr--In such cases
the heart Is almust always wen before the
hiecoughing begins. A sneeze, however, has
been known TO kill health man Dr.
Joseph n Dickson, of PittsbdFg, reports a
case Of this kind in VIII. a sr.d ze was so vio-
lent as to break the right ,le. The sharp
edge Of the brokca be1s the subclavian
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