Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-08-11
TIE MEDICAL MtjSra1
SOME OF THE eHAsrty Z.
KEPT ON rxAleIrlok' s

''"uent O..
At Wash 'nst"n--Freaks Of III. :
"Reminiscences Of Indian wa.
Of Bonss--tien. sickles I.er.
But the museum abounds /, ",
are OF intrinsic interest There \.
lessons illustrating the wonders, q. y
rifle balls. Oae Of these il q ss.4s
skull with the ball which strpos y
two, onc-half going inside and ire.'.
wound which caused death. ~ ..s
remaining OH the outside betwe,,. ~ y
and the skull. The soldier wbo rs..' "
remarkable wound at Spottylysns
twenty-three days
Still more wonderful than thia ~.
where a mimic ball struck Tia ~.
the nose and divided. Along with ~
the head of the man who mt ths ~
pistol in his mouth and flred ~
passed through the jugular vein ~ ~
fast in the bone, acting as strsa. I
hemorrhage from the vein. Tia s
suicide lived seventeen years beto,. ~" y
up his head to make museum visitor, =, -
INDIAN BABIES.
The museum possesses quits oolles,.
papooses, picked up by the army s',ss.
the wild west and forwarded, tn IN
and battered remains have been ucr,.Ns
long exp osure to sun and wind on Y 4
waited stages where the Indians used ~
but they are not pleasant to lool n,,,s
most notable Of these papooses !.
chap, said to have been found in a s.
Laramie. He is dressed in a mil : ~
upon which the Indian mother has -
great collection of buttons. Aroma II
is string Of beads, and on the feet i. h..
embroidered moccasins.
"reminiscences of the Indian war, Z.
merous. There Is the skull Of one br,,.'
only succumbed when he had been "a
nine times. At least that must h AZ a.
clusion, for tho Uranium shows nina nj
penetrating cuts from the sword. on 3.
it is not to be supposed that the whit. =
amused himself by whacking away NJ
lessly at the red mans head after IT, 81;
was hors de combat. The skull Delonrsl
all Araucanian, who was killed bv Gs#
soldiers. The skull of the favorite sou.sM
Little Bear, the Indian chief, is a yerv M
companion piece to the above, Sh n
killed in Wyoming. In the preserved "
MUM are seven bullet holes.
One day after the war closed there en-
Washington one armed veteran. Hahs'
bundle wrapped in paper, and he said / &
something that ought to be in the mus
When the wrappings were taken of b.z
was brought to view human arm &
muscles hal dried hard and the skin hail..
tanned By the action Of the wind and sn 4
complete had been natures process thatl5'
was nothing disagreeable but the looks MI
arm. The drying and shrinking Of The q
had left tho jagged bone bare at ore v
and the same causes had clinched the A.
at the other. The veterans story was e
in the battle at Gettysburg cannon ball I
taken of his arm. Unconscious. be hsd,
carried to tho field hospital, and then % 4
! general hospital Months afterward he Z
regained his health aid had been discbarza
Curiosity prompted him to visit the 81
haid and 1.-Two over his terrible experts
He found, after some trouble, the spot vi
ho stood when the cannon ball discogs.
him. 1t WIS in corn field, and thef.
tween the burrows was the arm in The !
preserved condition apparent. The scieus
gentlemen OF tho museum didn't thiDiI
worth while to take the soldiers ailbh.
They saw ut glance that the arm Wa.
interesting specimen, aside from its hist
They took it, mounted it upon two suyr
Ill glass case, and gave it place Of rn
nence in the museum.
WONDERFUL WORK WITH ARROWS
Some of the wonderful Accomplishment
the Indians with their arrows are illustri
in very realistic manner. These an
had heads made of the iron hoops Of ban
A shoulder blade of buffalo, with thet
1rall looking arrow head piercing it is slss
upon close examination the visitor disco
tnat Inc point projects through the outsi
OF lhe bone. The only explanation Is I
the arrow must have passed Through
body of the buffalo and struck the shOI
blade ON the inside. These arrow heada
be taken between the fingers and bent I
ease, they are SO thin; but shot from thsb
by the Indian, they went through obss
which would have stopped bullet
penetrated bones without fracturing Ii
and they made cuts as clean as the lee
surgical blades. The Apache arrow ba
soft iron has pierced where leaden pnj
lie would have fattened.
The visitor sees hung up in the cases
ana there sections of bones which posse
significance until it is learned that they
been taken from tho arms or legs of men
living. In cases where balls had shaft
the bone, surgeons sometimes preferred
operation of cutting out section instes
adopting the shorter and, for them, q
method of amputation. One of
exclsed bones hung up in the mus
came from the arm of a veteran
was for years an attache of the ins
tlon. lie used to walk up to the case 0
sionally and shake his fist at it. Muscle
sinews had developed in place of the mis-
bone to such an extent as to make the
Strong enough for more than ordinary
This man could lift 200 pounds with the
from which the bone had been taken.
Pension Commissioner Black had one d
arms excised, and there is CONSIDERABLE
ton OF it which is only gristle and mu
The bone is gone, and he becomes paint
aware of the fact when he tries to Sd
hands with 400 or 500 people.
No. 1885 is large bone with the spin
ING about midway, where the bullet str
The tag says: Maj. Gen. d. L. S., Tn
States volunteers, Gettysburg, July 2; an
tated in the lower third of the thigh BY
geon 4. Sim, United States volunteers, on
Held. Stump healed rapidly, and sub
was able to ride in carriage July l6i 9
piete!y healed, so that he mounted his be
in September, 1868. Contributed by the
1ect." 1t is the leg of Gen. Sickles, vi
SILL cheerfully stumping about New
and Washington. -"W. B. s." in I'll
Democrat.