Warfare has been responsible for many curiosities in the way of people recovering from wounds Which ought by all the rules. to have been fatal, but we fancy that few more peculiar things have come to notice than one just recorded by a Glasgow doctor. He relates that in 1923 a joiner came to him eomplaining of a pain in his shoulder, and the hest_ explanation the man could give of it, was that he had strained himself while lifting a heavy load of wood, The doctor was not at all satisfied, as there were signs of irritation below the skin which coincided with me numerable eases he had seen during the war where pieces of metal had Todged in the flesh, and consequent ly he made inquiries into his patient's experience during the war, It toned out that the man had been three years on the western front, but had never been wounded. Nevertheless the doctor proceeded to probe the place, and thereafter extracted a German bullet from the shoulder. There would, of course, have been nothing surprising about the matter if the man had admitted to a slight wound which did not necessitate hospital treatment, for It was possible especially for fragments of shell to enter limbs, leaying hardly more than a scratch which healed up almost at once, and being practically painless di not suggest the neod of an Here, however, the man had no collection of anything of the kind, and that is what makes the matter '30 mysterious. All the time, although they: are constantly employ ed in patching it up, medical men tell us that the human body is one of the most wonderful creations that can te imagined, and it would appear that it can also be equally wonderful in unsuspected directions. hour w hour yards the seriousness of the Cruption. At the beginning it a peared to be of little moment and likely almo=t as quickly a8 it had come, but since then it has grown in magnitude, and contradictory are the reports that We are at x complete loss to know overwhelmed in 1169, while during: the last century there were no fewer n seven serious outbreaks of activity. "The Inst devastating eruption occurred in 1910. It is deeply to be hoped that the present year is not to see a repetition of catastrophes.
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