There is a record of a man by
the name of Bulkley who was found, by a police officer in
Philadelphia, staggering along the streets, and was taken to the
inebriate ward of the Blockley Hospital, where he subsequently
sank and died, after having been transferred from ward to ward,
his symptoms appearing inexplicable. A postmortem examination
revealed the fact that an ordinary knife-blade had been driven
into his brain on the right side, just above the ear, and was
completely hidden by the skin. It had evidently become loosened
from the handle when the patient was stabbed, and had remained in
the brain several days. No clue to the assailant was found.
Thudicum mentions the case of a man who walked from Strafford to
Newcastle, and from Newcastle to London, where he died, and in
his brain was found the breech-pin of a gun. Neiman describes a
severe gunshot wound of the frontal region, in which the iron
breech-block of an old-fashioned muzzle-loading gun was driven
into the substance of the brain, requiring great force for its
extraction. The patient, a young man of twenty-eight, was
unconscious but a short time, and happily made a good recovery. A
few pieces of bone came away, and the wound healed with only a
slight depression of the forehead.
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