-,-A Good Head foe a Soldieb. — An American paper, the Alexandria Sentinel,-%i.YQS details of tho case of a New York Volunteer, who was hit in the head by a spent ball at' Mine "RuniinfNovembßr; ;> ; but the surgeon.on repeated probing, failed ; to dis-; coyer any ball, and the man's general health continued very good, • notydth'standingupccasional pain. In April, however, the pains became mora frequent and severe, and he returned to the hoB- .r. pital, and the surgeon, probing the wound, found the ball, arid promised To' extract it- iieit • ,dj»y; Suddenly, in the lncautiine, the ball shifted itt position, and the man would have been"; choked, but for the arrival ;of the surgeon, who then extracted it with ease. 'For five months the soldier has been carrying in his hiead a grape ohok (iron) about four inches in circumference, and weighing half a pound. t r
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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 39, 1 September 1864, Page 3
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