SINGULAR BULLET WOUND.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 292, 8 December 1900, Page 2 (Supplement)

SINGULAR BULLET WOUND.

-V curious effect, of a bullet wound was exemplified during the. Boer war. An English soldier iv the storming of a, position at the beginning of February last was struck in the face by a Mauser bullet. The projectile lodged in the head somewhere, but all attempts to reveal its precise position by the X-rays were futile. The soldier was discharged from his hospital as cured, and participated in several other battles. The only ill effect he experienced from the wound was a slight impediment in his speech. On July 11 he was seized with a violent attack of sneezing, and during his ex-, ertions disgorged what proved to be the missing bullet. It had been firmly embedded point downward in the lower part of his jaw. A MAN WHO CASTS HIS SKIN. A decided novelty, it must be ad-' milled, is a man who moults somewhat after the manner of birds. Just such a case is reported in the "Lancet." The man is strong and healthy, aged 50 years, and he sheds his skin every year. He was born in May, j 1849, and shed his skin in the following July, and since then every summer, lii 189-, 3 899 and 1900 he shed his skin twice at intervals of a month. The skin of the body desquamates, but that of the palms, elbows, kneecaps and feet comes off in a mass. The hair of the head, eyebrows and moustache falls. The patient does not become bald, but the hair falls little by little, as after typhoid fever. The nails also participate in the shedding. During this period of queer moulting the man is able to work.