Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1875 — Remarkable Surgical Case. [ARTICLE]

Remarkable Surgical Case.

The Reform School at Jamesburg had a boy under its care who was suffering with a bad face. It appeared to assume the character of a null formation of bone just above the jaw and about parallel witli the nose. A running sore was connected with the supposed malformation. It was just below the right eye, and very painful. Physicians have been baffled from time to time to know what to do in the matter, and. to ascertain precisely the cause of his distress, last Saturday Mr. Allinson took the boy to Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia. Prof. William H. Pancoast went to work at the case. The professor supposed, while he was operating, that he was cutting against bone, but he soon found that he was cutting against iron. After considerable labor, a breechpin of a musket, two and a half inches long and’an inch wide in the thickest part, was found imbedded in the face. It was taken out in the presence of nearly 300 students, and, when the operation successfully performed, cheers went up from the whole audience. It was then ascertained that the boy was injured about fifteen months ago by the explosion of a musket, and, strange to say, nobody had any knowledge that the piece of the musket-lock had been imbedded in the boy’s face. The boy was kept under medical treatment, but at the last-accounts he was doing well.— Trenton (N. J.) Gazette. - —A mean Chicago man has nailed to his door a card bearing the statement that “ Everybody shuts this door but you.’!