Being mounted and leaning over his horse, a
Pawnee, on foot and within a few paces, drove an arrow deep into
his right buttock. The stick was withdrawn by his companions, but
the iron point remained in his body. He passed bloody urine
immediately after the injury, but the wound soon healed, and in a
few weeks he was able to hunt the buffalo without inconvenience.
For more than six years he continued at the head of his band, and
traveled on horseback, from camp to camp, over hundreds of miles
every summer. A long time after the injury he began to feel
distress in micturating, which steadily increased until he was
forced to reveal this sacred secret (as it is regarded by these
Indians), and to apply for medical aid. His urine had often
stopped for hours, at which times he had learned to obtain relief
by elevating his hips, or lying in different positions. The urine
was loaded with blood and mucus and with a few pus globules, and
the introduction of a sound indicated a large, hard calculus in
the bladder. The Indians advised me approximately of the depth to
which the shaft had penetrated and the direction it took, and
judging from the situation of the cicatrix and all the
circumstances it was apparent that the arrow-head had passed
through the glutei muscles and the obturator foremen and entered
the cavity of the bladder, where it remained and formed the
nucleus of a stone.
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