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Thames Star, Volume XLV, Issue 10633, 5 February 1909, Page 1

That a .man mwy live for seiven years wilh a piece of leaden 'bullet in his braini was proved ait an- inquest held in London. The post-mortem examination, showed that. there was a large piece of jagged, bone pressing into the brain, anil a. piece of leaden bullet in the-braiin. D'ea*h was due to epilepsy,. sefc up by injury 'to the, brain, and by the depressed borne andthe piece-of bullet. It was niaTvellous tihai the man, had lived 1. The bullst had paeeed right through the brain.

AiiTangenients have boec completed betweea the Secretary of State fov the Colonies and the Government- of British Guiana to eaable Pnofessor Deycke, late Director of the 'Military School of Medicinet at Constantmiple, to carry out a practical test of the Nastone-treatment for tho «we of deprosy at the colony leiJer asylum at Mahaiea. The experiment' is considered to' be of vthe utmost Importance, for should it- prove the suooee's Professor Deycie confidently hopes, it is anticipated: that ike liuperiu! Government will take steps "alofcively to encourage the adoption 1 of theremedy in other British coloni'iett.