Cosh from Calcutta. The patient was a native who had been dreadfully
butchered in the Chooar campaign. One of his hands was cut off above
the wrist. The remaining stump was nearly amputated by a second blow. A
third blow penetrated the shoulder-joint. Beside these and several
other slashes, he had a cut across the abdomen extending from the
umbilicus to the spine. This cut divided the parietes and severed one
of the coats of the colon. The intestines escaped and lay by his side.
He was then left on the ground as dead. On arrival at the hospital his
wounds were dressed and he speedily convalesced, but the injured colon
ruptured and an artificial anus was formed and part of the feces were
discharged through the wound. This man was subsequently seen at
Midnapore healthy and lusty although his body was bent to one side in
consequence of a large cicatrix; a small portion of the feces
occasionally passed through the open wound.

There is an account of a private soldier, aged twenty-seven, who
suffered a gunshot wound of the skull, causing compound fracture of the
cranium, and who also received compound fractures of both bones of the
leg. He did not present himself for treatment until ten days later. At
this time the head-injury caused him no inconvenience, but it was
necessary to amputate the leg and remove the necrosed bones from the
cranial wounds; the patient recovered.

Recovery After Injuries by Machinery, with Multiple Fractures,
etc.--Persons accidentally caught in some portions of powerful
machinery usually suffer several major injuries, any one of which might
have been fatal, yet there are marvelous instances of recovery after
wounds of this nature. Phares records the case of a boy of nine who,
while playing in the saw-gate of a cotton-press, was struck by the
lever in revolution, the blow fracturing both bones of the leg about
the middle. At the second revolution his shoulder was crushed; the
third passed over him, and the fourth, with maximum momentum struck his
head, carrying away a large part of the integument, including one
eyebrow, portions of the skull, membranes, and brain-substance. A piece
of cranial bone was found sticking in the lever, and there were stains
of brain on all the 24 posts around the circumference of the hole.
Possibly from 1 1/2 to two ounces of cerebral substance were lost. A
physician was called, but thinking the case hopeless he declined to
offer surgical interference. Undaunted, the f