A BULLET IN HIS HEAD FORTY YEARS.
An interesting surgical study is that of a : man who has just died at St. Gallon This man, a certain Christian Zogg, was a soldier in the "Sonderbund" war, forty-three years ago, and in the fight at Kiemengrat he was severely wounded with a bullet in the head. The surgeon could not extract the ball, for it had pierced behind theear, and lay against '■ the hard skull. No one thought he could i live, but he did, swearing always he had i the bullet still in his head. Of course, | after a time no one believed him, though he suffered from terrible headaches and occasional feeble-mindedness. But when he I died his skull was opened, and surely enough he had lived for over forty years with this bullet in his head. The skull at the point where the bullet lay was three or four times as thick as elsewhere, and a piece the size of a very small egg had been forced aside.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 12 September 1891, Page 4
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170A BULLET IN HIS HEAD FORTY YEARS. Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 12 September 1891, Page 4
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