The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1901-10-31

Occasionally He Likes to Look at His
Tibia and Flbula.)
reality been eating his aged and re-
spected relative.
On a black stand, marked No. 1885
is strong white bone shattered in the
middle. The inscription reads: 'The
right tibia and fibula, comminuted by
a round shell. Maj. Gen. D. E. S., U. S.
volunteers, Gettysburg, July 2. Am
putated on the field" The former
owner, Gen. Sickles, contributed this
specimen to the museum, and occa-
sionally he comes to look at it. Hap
PLY in future wars gunshot wounds
will be far less fatal than hitherto.
Thanks to the discovery of antiseptic
methods, which prevent hostile bac-
terra from finding lodgment in
wounds and propagating their kind in
them, blood poisoning and other com.
plants which killed thousands during
the civil war can be effectually pre-
vented
One of the strangest curiositieS
shown is the lung of colored man pre-
served in a jar of alcohol. 1t is as black
as the blackest coal. The former own
er dwelt near Richmond, Va, in log
hut which was not well ventilated.
Burning pine wood to keep himself
| warm, he breathed the smoke for
years. 1t is found that the substance
which has blackened the lung is pure
carbon. Another lung, likewise kept in
bottle, is black with iron rust. 1t once
belonged to nail maker. This is par
| ticularly a trade disease. Workers in
steel and iron are generally apt to be
| inflicted with it,
However, these are only few of the
odd things on exhibition at this muse
um. There is a mans breast bone that
has large gap in the middle of it.
One could feel his heart beat by touch
ing his chest, nothing covering that
vital organ but thin wall of flesh. On
this account he wore a protector of
black leather. He died, but not for
that reason. A skull with a few ver-
tebras attached to it is from the cata-
combs of Rome. The remarkable point
about it is that they once belonged to
an individual whose neck was broken
and who recovered from the injury.
! Not the most attractive of the OBJ
jects displayed are models repre-
ing monstrous births, such as those
from which the ancients got their no.
tions originally for their figures OF
demons and other malevolent spirits
BY plunging an egg of chicken OF
other fowl into cold water for brief
period during the process of incuba'
ton monstrous chicks with double
heads and other deformities may be
artifcially produced, the integrity OF
the developing germ being disturbed
1t is believed that accidents of sim
liar nature occurring without design
in other animals produce such freaks
as commonly find their way into dime
museums.
The first use of wax models to rep
resent parts of the human body in
disease is attributed to Sicilian priest
named Zambo, who lived in the latter
part of the seventeenth century. HI
had been accustomed to making suct
counterfeit presentments of diseased
or deformed hands and feet, to be uset
as votive offerings at the shrines o.
saints, in behalf of the persons af
ficted, who hoped for cure by super
natural agency. The fame of thes'
works of art induced surgeon of re
pute to go to the priest and emplo!
him for the purpose of reproducin,
some pathological examples. Henc'
the original collection of this kind.
SMITH D. FRY.