fracture of the base of the skull, fracture
of the jaw, and compound fracture of the right humerus. There was high
delirium followed by imbecility in this case. Bonnet reports a case of
fracture of both thighs, two right ribs, luxation of the clavicle, and
accidental club-foot with tenotomy, with good recovery from all the
complications. Beach speaks of an individual who suffered fracture of
both thighs, and compound comminuted fracture of the tibia, fibula, and
tarsal bones into the ankle-joint, necessitating amputation of the leg.
The patient not only survived the operation, but recovered with good
union in both thighs. As illustrative of the numerous fractures a
person may sustain at one time, the London Medical Gazette mentions an
injury to a girl of fourteen, which resulted in 31 fractures.

Remarkable Falls.--In this connection it is of interest to note from
how great a height a person may fall without sustaining serious injury.
A remarkable fall of a miner down 100 meters of shaft (about 333 feet)
without being killed is recorded by M. Reumeaux in the Bulletin de
l'Industrie Minerale. Working with his brother in a gallery which
issued on the shaft, he forgot the direction in which he was pushing a
truck; so it went over, and he after it, falling into some mud with
about three inches of water. As stated in Nature, he seems neither to
have struck any of the wood debris, nor the sides of the shaft, and he
showed no contusions when he was helped out by his brother after about
ten minutes. He could not, however, recall any of his impressions
during the fall. The velocity on reaching the bottom would be about 140
feet, and time of fall 4.12 seconds; but it is thought he must have
taken longer. It appears strange that he should have escaped simple
suffocation and loss of consciousness during a time sufficient for the
water to have drowned him.

While intoxicated Private Gough of the 42d Royal Highlanders attempted
to escape from the castle at Edinburgh. He fell almost perpendicularly
170 feet, fracturing the right frontal sinus, the left clavicle, tibia,
and fibula. In five months he had so far recovered as to be put on duty
again, and he served as an efficient soldier. There is an account of
recovery after a fall of 192 feet, from a cliff in County Antrim,
Ireland. Manzini mentions a man who fell from the dome of the Invalides
in Paris, without sustaining any serious accident, and there is a
record from Madrid of a m