The New Zealand Herald says there is now a patient in the Militia Hospitals who, at Tauranga, received a bullet in his mouth through the cheek. The bullet, glancing from the teeth, must have lodged in the throat, for yesterday, the patient having complained "all day of a sore throat, was seized in the afternoon with a violent fit of coughing, when he brought up the bullet from which he had received his wound. It was a conical bullet, evidently cast in a tobacco-pipe, and was much' scored with marks from the wounded man's teeth.
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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 20, 16 July 1864, Page 3
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