Callaghan, quoted in Erichsen's "Surgery,"
remarks that he knew of an officer who lived seven years with a
portion of a gun-breech weighing three ounces lodged in his
brain.
Lawson mentions the impaction of a portion of a breech of a gun
in the forehead of a man for twelve years, with subsequent
removal and recovery. Waldon speaks of a similar case in which a
fragment of the breech weighing three ounces penetrated the
cranium, and was lodged in the brain for two months previous to
the death of the patient.
Huppert tells of the lodgment of a slate-pencil three inches long
in the brain during lifetime, death ultimately being caused by a
slight head-injury. Larry mentions a person who for some time
carried a six ounce ball in the brain and ultimately recovered.
Peter removed a musket-ball from the frontal sinus after six
years' lodgment, with successful issue. Mastin has given an
instance in which the blade of a pen-knife remained in the brain
six months, recovery following its removal. Camden reports a case
in which a ball received in a gunshot wound of the brain remained
in situ for thirteen years; Cronyn mentions a similar case in
which a bullet rested in the brain for eight years.
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