He was accidentally wounded in February, 1868, by an arrow which
entered the back three inches to the right of the 5th lumbar
vertebra, and emerged about two inches to the right of the
ensiform cartilage. During the following evening the patient lost
about eight ounces of blood externally, with a small amount
internally. He was confined to his bed some two weeks, suffering
from circumscribed peritonitis with irritative fever. In four
weeks he was walking about, and by July 1st was actively
employed. The arrow was deposited in the Army Medical Museum.
Muller gives a report of an arrow-wound of the lung which was
productive of pleurisy but which was followed by recovery. Kugler
recites the description of the case of an arrow-wound of the
thorax, complicated by frightful dyspnea and blood in the pleural
cavity and in the bronchi, with recovery.
Smart extracted a hoop-iron arrow-head, 1 3/4 inches long and 1/2
inch in breadth, from the brain of a private, about a month after
its entrance. About a dram of pus followed the exit of the
arrow-head. After the operation the right side was observed to be
paralyzed, and the man could not remember his name. He continued
in a varying condition for a month, but died on May 13, 1866,
fifty-two days after the injury.
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