BULLET IN BOY’S BRAIN

Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1727, 19 April 1906, Page 3

BULLET IN BOY’S BRAIN

A SrKAY SHOT. Melbourne, April 10. A boy named Wm. Plisch, son of Mr J. Plisch, caterer, of Swanston, Collins and Elizabeth streets, has for a week past been under the care of Dr Chas. Eyan, who discovered that a bullet is deeply embedded in his brain. The circumstances attending this case are of an extraordinary nature. Young Plisch on the night of Monday last was with a companion at Princes Court. While wandering about the court the boys passed at the back of the shooting gallery. The small-bore rifles were cracking out busily, and as the lads were moving past Plisch felt a sharp sting on his temple. He seemed momentarily staggered, and put his hand to the place, hut made no complaint. One of his friends, however, saw a rill of blood flowing down the hoy’s face, and asked him if he was hurt. Plisch was then growing dazed, and could not reply intelligently, and as his state was plainly seiious he was taken to the Homoeopathic Hospital. There the wound was examined, but it appears to have been treated as a mere superficial injury, as no bullet could he discovered. When information was sought at the hospital the reply was given by an attendant nurse that it was unlikely that the boy had been hit by a bullet at all, and that the case was unimportant. The patient’s friends, however, were by no means satisfied, and next day they removed him to Miss Kelly’s private hospital, and called in Dr. Charles Eyan. Dr Eyan performed an operation, and removed a number of pieces of shattered hone which impinged upon the brain, causing pressure, and later, with the aid of the X rays, discovered the bullet deep in the brain. Owing to its position it could not be removed without a probable immediate fatal result. The boy lies in a comatose condition, but is if anything in a better state than when he was placed under Dr. Eyan’s control. His condition, however, is still very serious.