Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1892 — Strange Case. [ARTICLE]

Strange Case.

A case of temporary survival of a wound which should have, apparently, caused instant death, is that of a boy who was picking up shavings in a carpenter shop. He slippped and fell, and his head struck against a revolving buzz saw. He staggered to his feet and went to an apothecary to have the cut in his head dressed. He said his head pained him terribly. , This was not wondered at when it was found that the saw had cut through his skull in such a way as to divide the two lobes of the brain. The boy lived for several days and retained consciousness till the last. According to the common acceptance of things, he should have died on the spot at the time he sustained this most remarkable injury.