Barre evening enterprise. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-1898, 1898-05-12
STORY OF THE BIBLE.
NO VITAL SPOT NOW.
HOW IT WAS COMPILED, PRESERVED
AND BROUGHT DOWN.
WOUNDS OF HEART AND BRAIN THAT
HAVE FAILED TO KILL.


vances In Treating Such Cases.
'fe "For my own part said the doctor
JUS with a shrug, II would prefer not to b.
eh shot at all, whether in the heart, head
'iu lungs, liver or brain, and yet l have
"9 taken note of many cases recently in
DIS which persons have sustained gunshot
rs wounds of supposedly fatal character
k who are still alive and going about their
as business
a The doctor and his companion were
y passing down town muser.l rnen the
as conversation took this Slrn. Among
1. the freaks pictured and caricatured in
3, front OF the building was man with a
e ragged bullet wound torn through his
)! heart-which organ was wildly exposed
1t III the flaring daub-while the angel of
o death was lowering over him, ready to
s. snatch him away at any moment
: Then" said the DOCTORS friend, "a
l shot or stab in the heart is not neces-
I sarlly fatal, as it is understood by mod
ern SURGERY
| mot at ALL" returned the doctor.
} "But, of course, we are not speaking of
III that museum picture That is appar-
entity even worse than the thrust re-
celved by Mercutio-looks about as deep
as well and as wide as church door. |
NO man who has been wounded like
mat ever survives more than minute.
That man in the museum is alleged
to be Charles B. Nelson, who was mys.
terlously shot one evening while in the
company of Mrs. Edith Marguerite Sta
pies III Washington park. The shooting
occurred on night five months ago,
and the man with all ounce of lead in
his heart is still alive Whether he
sleeps well and has a good appetite /
am unable to say. He was formerly
| cycllst OF some note. Nelson's breast
was subjected to the X rays and, &C.
cordlng to sciographs which were made
at the time, the bullet lodged in the
septum OF the heart-the fourfold par I
tltlon OF muscular fiber that divides the {
interior OF that organ into right and left c
aurlcles and ventricles There it has e
continued to throb up and down about
100, 600 times day ever since that nys f
FERROUS shooting, and at every pulsation v
refutlng the old theory of medical sci II
ence that the touch of hostile metal to "
mans heart brings DEATH #
The most skillful and daring sur. Il
geon On earth. if he were asked to re- ei
move the bullet from Nelson heart, OF
would shake his head in the negative.
go thls man must carry his leaden han
dlcap as long as life shall last. Seems
strange, doesn't it? Il
And yet, Notwithstanding what I
have said, we have surgeons nowadays
who do undertake and carry to suc. en-
cess1ul conclusion operations on the al
heart. This is done by opening the peri. III
'ardlum, for example, in cases of drop.
y OF the heart, and drawing off the lo'
luld by aspiration. man NAV have ro
lis heart punctured with the point of a an
inlfe or needle and still recover from TO
he injury 1t used to be held chat OF
Wounds OF this character were invaria. eaf
ny fatal. But wound of the heart is wh
ot necessarily fatal, as is shown in the Jor
ase where needle was removed nv lea
from the substance of that tw1
ryan. Cases of like nature have been ma
eported by Drs. Hahn. Apnow sta11 dry
er ana others. More than so cases rem
mere rupture OF the heart walls did AS
oG result III immediate death are re-. PEE
'rted by Dr. d. j. Hamilton, a well wit
loWn Scotch surgeon and pathologist. dre'
Inc case OF Poole, a prizefghter, L
as one OF the most remarkable. Poole roaS
as shot III the heart while engaged in 10 s.
encounter with a man named Baker
New Jersey, in 1855. To all outward stu1l
pearance he recovered rapidly and in ADDS
ar Gays felt SO we'll that he expressed 40 n
wish to,tinish the interrnntod aontnst table
we've days later, however, he sudden SOFT
cropped to the ground. Within five III
lautes he was dead geese
More remarkable still, perhaps, are Ia
numerous injuries to the brain and cut
nal cord, which on first view would cut u
pronounced fatal and yet from which ana
wounded persons recover. At Val. enou;
also, Ind, man named Herbert + or bll
while in fit of temporary insan. under
put a 3S caliber bullet throngb bic this c
IN, and at last accounts he wac GILL it SCI
% ana apparently getting we'll. The with
'ot' ny an accounts, passed through
iisnC ana LETT anterior hemispheres ~,
no plaln' lodging finally in the pos lht
OF bone wall of the left eye socket. new o
Us course the ball destroyed a large trated
UNI or brain matter. At the same new
1t cut the optic nerves of both ewes Loeb
royihg the sight. In some way the IN thf
OF smell, too, was destroyed. CITY &C
Many Chlcagoans will remember a mad be
Say at the Briggs House in this city boilers
raj years ago, in which man who scale
shot in the brain got we'll. J. s who
onnell, we'll known veterinar, tubes
CON- and his wife We're boarders at while
lotel. 1t was in August, 1887. One remain
mere was great uproar and excite. mad rel
over shooting atfray in the apart. lncrust
) OF the McDonnells. In the quar-. mechal
cDonnell was shot by his wife. tha ing tn
entering the side of his head in 1ull be
arletal bone above the ear and men. badly t.
ng the brain. Within the next a. the old
the ball was removed by DR.. Lis. ~ reno
l. montgomery, and the wounded pure wa
'oc Well The wife at the same less corr
shot herself in the head but her to preve
es were not serious. Old time doc.
sea 10 pronounce wounds like that
Donnell's fatal in every instance Mrs
ade very little effort to save tho some la
t. Brain injuries are most serions sea' and
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