screw. It was estimated that about two large spoonfuls of blood and brain followed. The fragments of bone were extracted by forceps ; and he soon recovered, with little suffering ; vision in the eye, however, being lost, though the shape of the globe and its motions were preserved. Nothing was required or done except one bleeding, and cathartic. (In those days we bled for everything.) The accident happened about the year 1820 or 1821 ; a year or two after, he was lost at sea." 1869.
Dr. Joseph L, Stevens, of Castine, Me.
3113. A second case. The breech-pin of a gun, that was driven through the right eye, and projected in front of the ear ; recovery, after its removal, rapid and complete.
This case occurred in the practice of the late Dr. Henry Tuck, of Barnstable ; and the following history is from a letter that he wrote to a friend, dated June 20th, 1837. The patient was out shooting, when his gun burst ; and, though he was two miles from home, he was able to walk that distance, with the help of his brother. The small end of the pin entered first, and projected immovably about a fourth of an inch near the ear. The iron could not be seen in the socket ; but, on passing in an instru- ment, it was seized and extracted. " It required three or four men" (Dr. T. says) " to hold the patient while he was under the operation of extraction, and nearly all my strength, which is not small, to remove the iron. I pulled upon it with both hands, jesting my knee upon his fore- head to keep his head from being lifted from the table ; " and it will give a stronger idea of the force that must have been used, to state that Dr. T. was a very large and power- ful man. The eye was so mangled that it was removed at once. In seven weeks ,the man was at work upon his farm ; and he is still alive.
The specimen is presented by a son of Dr. T., who is now a resident of this city. 1869. Dr. Henry Tuck.
3114. A third case. Cast of the breech-pin of a gun, that was removed from the right upper maxillary bone, after it had. been there for eight years.
The case occurred in the practice of Dr. James N. Fra-
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