The edges of the wound were brought into apposition
by sutures, and after the removal of the latter perfect union and
complete restoration of the sensation of taste ensued. Franck
mentions regeneration of a severed tongue; and Van Wy has seen
union of almost entirely severed parts of the tongue. De
Fuisseaux reports reunion of the tongue by suture after almost
complete transverse division.
There is an account of a German soldier who, May 2, 1813, was
wounded at the battle of Gross-Gorschen by a musket ball which
penetrated the left cheek, carrying away the last four molars of
the upper jaw and passing through the tongue, making exit on the
left side, and forcing out several teeth of the left lower jaw.
To his surprise, thirty years afterward, one of the teeth was
removed from an abscess of the tongue. Baker speaks of a boy of
thirteen who was shot at three yards distance. The bullet knocked
out two teeth and passed through the tongue, although it produced
no wound of the pharynx, and was passed from the anus on the
sixth day. Stevenson mentions a case of an organist who fell
forward when stooping with a pipe in his mouth, driving its stem
into the roof of the pharynx. He complained of a sore throat for
several days, and, after explanation, Stevenson removed from the
soft palate a piece of clay pipe nearly 1 1/4 inches long.
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