ve pains in the inguinal region, and by the thirty-fifth day an
elevation was formed, and the pains increased in violence. On the
seventy-ninth day a needle six inches long was expelled from the
swelling in the groin, and the patient recovered. Lisfranc extracted
from the uterus of a woman who supposed herself to be pregnant at the
third month, a fragment of a large gum-elastic sound which during
illicit maneuvers had broken off within five cm. of its extremity, and
penetrated the organ. Lisfranc found there was not the slightest sign
of pregnancy, despite the woman's belief that she was with child.

CHAPTER XIV.

MISCELLANEOUS SURGICAL ANOMALIES.

Marvelous Recoveries from Multiple Injuries.--There are injuries so
numerous or so great in extent, and so marvelous in their recovery,
that they are worthy of record in a section by themselves. They are
found particularly in military surgery. In the Medical and
Philosophical Commentaries for 1779 is the report of the case of a
lieutenant who was wounded through the lungs, liver, and stomach, and
in whose armpit lodged a ball. It was said that when the wound in his
back was injected, the fluid would immediately be coughed up from his
lungs. Food would pass through the wound of the stomach. The man was
greatly prostrated, but after eleven months of convalescence he
recovered. In the brutal capture of Fort Griswold, Connecticut, in
1781, in which the brave occupants were massacred by the British,
Lieutenant Avery had an eye shot out, his skull fractured, the
brain-substance scattering on the ground, was stabbed in the side, and
left for dead; yet he recovered and lived to narrate the horrors of the
day forty years after.

A French invalid-artillery soldier, from his injuries and a peculiar
mask he used to hide them, was known as "L'homme a la tete de cire."
The Lancet gives his history briefly as follows: During the
Franco-Prussian War, he was horribly wounded by the bursting of a
Prussian shell. His whole face, including his two eyes, were literally
blown away, some scanty remnants of the osseous and muscular systems,
and the skull covered with hair being left. His wounds healed, giving
him such a hideous and ghastly appearance that he was virtually
ostracized from the sight of his fellows. For his relief a dentist by
the name of Delalain constructed a mask which included a false palate
and a set of false teeth. This apparatus was so perfect that the
functions of resp