with the Induction Balance. 57 
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the diagram. (Fig. 27.) The bullet was thus located within 
a square, C, of about one inch. 
“The exact situation of the ball,” as described in the Medical 
Gazette, “was found to be within the thorax, probably in imme- 
diate contact with the inner surface of the ribs, the point pega} a 
little to the left of the sternum, between the third and fourth ribs, 
and two or three inches above the cicatrix on the front of the 
chest, where the sinus, long since closed, had evacuated itself, and 
in a direct line from this cicatrix toward the left shoulder, which 
indicated the line of the track of the original sinus.” 
thrust the needle into that portion of the body where far 
bullet is believed to be lodged. When the point of the needle 
