San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-06-14

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"Similar cases from serious accl-
dental injury are numerous on record
in tho doctors scrap-book, and one
may be added that OF BOY VINO na .u
his right leg caught between .he
smokes of a country wagon, prouuelns
n compound fracture OF MS tnlsn
hone. Both ends of the tractuIeu
hone were protruding through the
boy,s nants and the muscles around
the fractured wound were torn apart
oxnosing n horrible large wounu'
,rbis HOY also recovered without the
loss of his leg, which shortened only
ahout two inches after the INJURY
,rbis bappened about four years ago
and the boy is in good health, WIN
no inconvenience to his leg.
.sTwo of the most interesting sur
gical cases on record in TINS cry
and perhaps elsewhere, remarked 'ne
doctor is the one of young lady, III
whom n tumcr was removed by open,
ing the abdomen, weighing over W
nounds the patient recovering ana
now enioying good health, and the
otbar Of an Italian who was operated
upon two years ago at the Santa Rosa
Hospital for volvolus, or OBSTRUCTION
of the large lower intestine. "A tulloi
was felt on his left side, ana on eA'
posing same it proved to DE the larse
intestine twisted into n Knot larger
than a fist. and one part OF the lhtes
tine was eyerted into the other, Du'
so firm through old adhesions ana OF
gonized hands of tissue and infiama
tion that it was absolutely necessar!
to cut both. ends of the inpacted lntes
fine off. The patient had been trouD
led for nearly two years ana coulo
hardly retain any nourlshment' VI
onerating fully five inches OF the Cd
structed intestine was removed aho
the cut ends were stitched together
He rallied from the operation, ana
after n tedious but successful alter
treatment. recovered his usual healll
minus five inches of intestine. lie
surely would have died in shor'
time without the operation from gen
eral starvation and obstruction OF the
bowels. and today he is the picture o.
robust health. and happier Italian
is hardly seen on the streets ol ou'
city. nm,
MANY cases of stab wounds ant
gunshot wounds are recorded, one %
which is of special interest: In May
1876, a horrible murder occurred u
n ranch IA miles east of San Antonio
A Young couple, just married, remov
ed from San Antonio to the husband
ranch, and two or three days after
ward some neighboring Mexican'
found the parties in fearful condl
ton, the husband lying dead on TIT
bloody bed with a large bullet holt
i'm the frontal region of his head, ant
the woman with a bullet hole II
nearly the same region, in the middle
lime of her forehead about half al
inch above and between the eye
brows. The wound and surroundin:
was much powderburnt, and, on pro
bling, the probe entered the scull in
vertical direction, towards the RICH
eyeball which was bullying out some
what. The brain pulsation wa
plainly visable through the bulle
crack in the skull. The woman wa
in semiconscious condition ant
seemed to be nearly starved, having
wandered about in a blind condition
the bloodmarks from her hand in diff
ferent places of the room and prem
ises showing this. The mans corps,
was in a decomposed condition ant
it was buried at the ranch the SAINT
day, and the woman was ordered
sent to San Antonio by order of tn,
city physician, to be carried off t
the hospital. This was one of the
most mysterious cases on record, sale
the doctor, and it never came to ligh
who and how the young couple ha(
been shot, if they committed suicid,
or were outright murdered. WheI
we arrived at the horrible place, &
small Mexican plank house, sur
rounded by one of the most pictures
que Texas sceneries near San An
tonic, it was evident that both parties
retired to bed the night they left Sal
Antonio, and under the pillow of thu
woman a Colts siX-shOoter wal
found, of which two chambers wer,
unloaded. and it was but q conjectur,
to decide if one of these parties die
the bloody work, and which one, anC
was the six-shooter replaced by tn,
shooter under the pillow before or af
the man was killed, and which party
was shot first? At the post-morten
examination ii was exclusively shown
that the man must have been killed
instanstaneously, as the bullet had en-
tered the frontal lobes of the braiI
and traversed through same and lod
ged near the base of the skull, where
it was found near the meningca
membranes. The woman, it seems
had no recollection what happened
that night, and she, at least, would
not confess to anyone the least pos
sible evidence to throw some light
on this horrible crime. This little
woman, who gradually recovered
from her injuries, is now yet living
here, as far as l know, and has fol
sometime past been admired as ont
of the chilequeens on Pascha
square"
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