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IV. A remarkable Cafe of Gun Shot Wound... Communicatd 
ina Letter from BARNABAS Binney, Hopital Phy/ician, 
__ and Surgeon in the American Army, in yd 2, to the wii lad 
BENJAMIN LINCOLN, Ejq; :F. 2d. A: 
VN April 9, 1782, David Beveridge, a feaman, belonging 
to the (loop of war General Monk; was brought into the 
‘military hofpital at this place, having been wounded the. day 
before. © “He was a lad of about nineteen years of age, and in a 
good ftate of health, at the time of the a&ion between the faid 
fhip and the Hyder-Ally. In that aétion he was in the main- 
topf the Monk, when he received a mufket-ball in his belly 
from one of the marines on the quarter-deck of the Hydir- Ally, 
then within fifteen yards of the Monk. ‘The bal entered “his 
belly about two inches above his left groin, and within an inch 
-of the anterior edge of the left zum, paffing out two inches on 
the right of the iile between the two inferior ‘true ribs, juft 
touching the cartilage of the inferior angle of the right /eapula. 
When he came into the hofpital he had bled much, was very 
weak and cold, had a faultring voice, a cadaverous countenance, 
and a conftant hiccup, while his fæces paffed freely out of the 
wound in his belly. In this deplorable condition, where neither 
art nor nature could promife any permanent relief, the only dic- 
tate of humanity was to fmooth the path of death. Being alfo 
in great pain, I advifed him to take a glafs of Madeira wine, 
with twenty or thirty drops of Z/juid. laudam. in it, as often 
25  neceffary. He accordingly began, and continued this prac- 
tice "till the thirteenth, finding conftant relief from it. He 
took no kind of fuftenance all this time excepting wine whey, 
never having any kind of difcharge 2 ano from the moment he 
was wounded, but conftantly {quirting with confiderable oat 
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