BULLET TAKEN FROM BRAIN.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17157, 28 May 1921, Page 14

BULLET TAKEN FROM BRAIN.

* A remarkable operation, which a number of expert surgeons who witnessed it believed will restore the patient's deranged mentality, was performed on one of the -prisoners at Sing Sing (U.S.A.) last month. It. consisted of the removal of one of two bullets embedded in the convict's brain during a fight which took place four years before ho was sentenced. Recently (says Reuter's correspondent at New York) the prisoner •had been suffering from epilepsy depression, and suicidal mania, and an X-ray examination disclosed the presence of the two bullets in his brain. j Dr. Chapman, the operating surgeon, is paralysed in the left arm, and performed the operatidn seated in a .wheel chair. He first removed a section of the skull, and then ran his fingers into the opening, locating a bullet in the motor area near the tor> of the brain. Carefully loosening the bullet, the doctor then worked it three inches along the inner wall of the' skull, thence sliding it to the aperture, after which he was able to pull it out with forceps. The bullet was half an inch long, and weighed one-sixth of an ounce. Later Dr. Chapman found the second bullet, but did not remove it, because it was very deenly embedded, 'and ho considei ed that its removal was not essentinl for the success of the ODeration. After the patient had recovered from ._ anesthetic lie opened his eyes, smiled, and declared he felt fine.