arrow-wounds, several of the
most striking will be recorded. Tremaine mentions a sergeant of
thirty-four who, in a fray with some hostile Indians, received seven
arrow-wounds: two on the anterior surface of the right arm; one in the
right axilla; one on the right side of the chest near the axillary
border; two on the posterior surface of the left arm near the
elbow-joint, and one on the left temple. On June 1st he was admitted to
the Post Hospital at Fort Dodge, Kan. The wound on the right arm near
the deltoid discharged, and there was slight exfoliation of the
humerus. The patient was treated with simple dressings, and was
returned to duty in July, 1870.

Goddard mentions an arrow-wound by which the body was transfixed. The
patient was a cutler's helper at Fort Rice, Dakota Territory. He was
accidentally wounded in February, 1868, by an arrow which entered the
back three inches to the right of the 5th lumbar vertebra, and emerged
about two inches to the right of the ensiform cartilage. During the
following evening the patient lost about eight ounces of blood
externally, with a small amount internally. He was confined to his bed
some two weeks, suffering from circumscribed peritonitis with
irritative fever. In four weeks he was walking about, and by July 1st
was actively employed. The arrow was deposited in the Army Medical
Museum.

Muller gives a report of an arrow-wound of the lung which was
productive of pleurisy but which was followed by recovery. Kugler
recites the description of the case of an arrow-wound of the thorax,
complicated by frightful dyspnea and blood in the pleural cavity and in
the bronchi, with recovery.

Smart extracted a hoop-iron arrow-head, 1 3/4 inches long and 1/2 inch
in breadth, from the brain of a private, about a month after its
entrance. About a dram of pus followed the exit of the arrow-head.
After the operation the right side was observed to be paralyzed, and
the man could not remember his name. He continued in a varying
condition for a month, but died on May 13, 1866, fifty-two days after
the injury. At the postmortem it was found that the brain-tissue, to
the extent of 3/4 inch around the track of the arrow as a center, was
softened and disorganized. The track itself was filled with thick pus
which extended into the ventricles.

Peabody reports a most remarkable case of recovery from multiple
arrow-wounds. In a skirmish with some Indians on June 3, 1863, the
patient had been w