long and one cm. wide into his
brain. He had deliberately held the dagger in his left hand. and
with a mallet in his right hand struck the steel several blows.
When seen two hours later he claimed that he experienced no pain,
and the dagger was sticking out of his head. For half an hour
efforts at extraction were made, but with no avail. He was placed
on the ground and held by two persons while traction was made
with carpenter's pliers. This failing, he was taken to a
coppersmith's, where he was fastened by rings to the ground, and
strong pinchers were placed over the dagger and attached to a
chain which was fastened to a cylinder revolved by steam force.
At the second turn of the cylinder the dagger came out. During
all the efforts at extraction the patient remained perfectly cool
and complained of no pain. A few drops of blood escaped from the
wound after the removal of the dagger, and in a few minutes the
man walked to a hospital where he remained a few days without
fever or pain. The wound healed, and he soon returned to work. By
experiments on the cadaver Dubrisay found that the difficulty in
extraction was due to rust on the steel, and by the serrated
edges of the wound in the bone.
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