After its long lodgment,
during which the subject was little discommoded, it finally came
out by the palatine arch. There is also an old record of a ball
lodging near the sella turcica for over a year, the patient dying
suddenly of an entirely different accident. Fabricius Hildanus
relates the history of an injury, in which, without causing any
uncomfortable symptoms, a ball rested between the skull and dura
for six months.
Amatus Lusitanus speaks of a drunken courtesan who was wounded in
a fray with a long, sharp-pointed knife which was driven into the
head. No apparent injury resulted, and death from fever took
place eight years after the reception of the injury. On opening
the head a large piece of knife was found between the skull and
dura. It is said that Benedictus mentions a Greek who was
wounded, at the siege of Colchis, in the right temple by a dart
and taken captive by the Turks; he lived for twenty years in
slavery, the wound having completely healed. Obtaining his
liberty, he came to Sidon, and five years after, as he was
washing his face, he was seized by a violent fit of sneezing, and
discharged from one of his nostrils a piece of the dart having an
iron point of considerable length.
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