Calcutta Native Hospital.—Excision of the Elbow; Recovery under the Care of Dr. Baillie
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Peerun, a healthy native woman, aged 25, by occupation an ayah, was brought to the Hospital by the Police on tho 6th October, 1868, having been murderously assailed by her paramour. She was insensible from loss of blood, having received no less than seventeen wounds (some of them very severe) inflicted with a butcher's knife, the principal cut, about 3 inches long, being over the back of the left elbow-joint, which it fully laid open, exposing the condyles of tho humerus, the olecranon, and the head and neck of the radius. An attempt to save tho
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