In about 1884 there died in the Vienna Hospital a bookbinder of
forty- five, who had always passed as an intelligent man, but who
had at irregular intervals suffered from epileptic convulsions.
An iron nail covered with rust was discovered in his brain; from
the history of his life and from the appearances of the nail it
had evidently been lodged in the cerebrum since childhood.
Slee mentions a case in which, after the death of a man from
septic peritonitis following a bullet-wound of the intestines, he
found postmortem a knife-blade 5/16 inch in width projecting into
the brain to the depth of one inch. The blade was ensheathed in a
strong fibrous capsule 1/2 inch thick, and the adjacent
brain-structure was apparently normal. The blade was black and
corroded, and had evidently passed between the sutures during
boyhood as there was no depression or displacement of the cranial
bones. The weapon had broken off just on a level with the skull,
and had remained in situ until the time of death without causing
any indicative symptoms. Slee does not state the man's age, but
remarks that he was a married man and a father at the time of his
death, and had enjoyed the best of health up to the time he was
shot in the abdomen.
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