One half of a large leaden ball is seen to be firmly imbedded in the bone in the situation above described, the flat section being external and oblique, with an opening quite through into the cavity of the cranium, and around this, upon the inside, some deposit of new bone. When convalescent, he, of his own accord, introduced some lint, and plugged up the wound in the forehead, which had always remained open, discharging pus freely two days afterwards he was taken sick, and the lint was removed with much relief he, however, continued to grow worse, died the next day of very extensive, acute meningitis. In December, 1839, he entered the United States Marine Hospital, at Chelsea, with pneumonia. In a few moments he arose and finished loading his gun, and whilst doing so, as he said, the ball dropped out upon the deck he afterwards received, in the same engagement, a severe sabre cut, which penetrated the cavity of the abdomen. Whilst loading a cannon, a shot, probably from a canister, hit the carriage of the gun, and glancing, struck him in the forehead and threw him senseless on the deck.
The patient, aged forty-five, was sail-maker on board the sloop of war Enterprise in her engagement with the Boxer. Catalog entry: A cranium, showing a ball lodged in the frontal bone, just above the right orbit and towards the median line, and which had been in that situation for about twenty-five years. Frontal bone flap replaced and fixed using Titanium microplates and screws: Complete recovery of the patient with no recurrence of the meningitis thereafter.
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