with the Induction Balanee. 5d 
and who is now 2 resi ident of Brooklyn. General Pratt, at the 
battle of Gaines’ Mills, tba 1862, this being the second day of 
the famous seven da S ‘eat across the peninsula, received a 
sie in his left cheek, whieh penetrated through the nares and 
8 lodged in the right a ntrum. Its presence vat this time was 
Baccoisca by his surgical attendant, Dr. Damainville, and its 
exact position has been 1 known from that day until this, it having 
given rise at nie to much pain - suffering. 
“General Pratt has been se by Dr. “Hamilton and Dr. 
pc aierille sh aoe from that. time forward, and they have 
time to time urged te oe soe necessity of its pine 
but rather feebly, by every "person present in te room, 
ene 
feebleness of the response was suppose be due to the fact 
» OWIng to its situation and the peculiar form of the instru- 
ment containing the =pagreidy coils, it was impossible to bring 
the of it ac near the site of the ball, the ball 
being situated very near she dens ession at the ala of nose.’ 
€ next patient was Col. on, who gape a 
the ateron! nae of the left staylale was supposed to hav 
lodged in the muscles under the ies angle of the correspond- 
Ing scapul in was followed by complete paralysis of 
¢ left arm, continuing for a period of six months; and his arm 
has never yet been completely Liner to its normal condition. 
Sullers a great portion of — e from pains in the arm, 
shoulder, ye portions of the 
v mall fragments of emer aie pit through a fistulous 
orifice formod near the seat of the original wounc 
“About eighteen months later an abscess abated on the front 
of the chest below the fifth rib and to the left of the sternum. 
Through this sinus his surgeon was able to ser a probe up- 
ward and backward toward the top of the shoulder several 
inches, and which sinus was supposed then to omnarailkeae witl 
the seat of the ball on the back. 
* Pleural iiktaicon: were recognized by the medical attendants 
8 having occurred in the upper part of the left thoracic cavity 
He has been troubled occasionally ever Shani the ye ee aro A 
remained o smth a nek aha poe png 
paar ain closed, communicated with the ha Oe per ony Fei 
no time was a suspicion entertained by him or his medica 
