A MAN LIVES FIVE DAYS WITH A KNIFE-BLADE IN HIS BRAIN.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 603, 15 December 1871, Page 2

A MAN LIVES FIVE DAYS WITH A KNIFE-BLADE IN HIS BRAIN.

Wilson's case is equalled —not by a man with a knife in his heart, but in his brain. In Philadelphia, on the 2nd instant, ja mail named Thomas Buckley, 64 years of age, was admitted to the Alms House in a state of supposed intoxication, and placed in what is called the drunken ward. As he appeared to be suffering from some injury, he was transferred to the surgical ;vard, and thence to the outward, and finally bark to the drunken ward again, without the nature of his hurt being ascertained. During all this time he wag gradually sinking, and on the 7th he died. A post-mortem examination was made, when it was discovered that a knife blade, about two inches long, had been driven through his skull above and in front ot the ear, and was imbedded almost its enure length in the brain. The blade was not broken off, but appeared to have come from the handle by the loosening ot the rivets. It was covered over by the skin, and but a slight wound was left to show where it had entered. Nobody know how or when the injury was inflicted; but the really remarkable feature ot tw 3ase is that the man should have lived at least nearly a week with a knife penetrating his brain to such a depth.