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CCTTho Ubwir lg extract of a letter,from a gentle man of the highest respectability, in Burke county, details one of the mo.vtremarkable instances of the kind, on record. The wonder is, that the ball should have remained ao long embedded in the flesh, without giving pain, Wc knew an instance sornc years ago, in the West, of o thorn being taken from un individual's foot, after having been there for more than forty years ; and another instance of a point of a knife-blade, taken from a mans nrm, after having been broken off against the bone, and lain there until it was almost entirely corroded by rust, but in both coses, iho objects were much smaller, and much lighter than a largo rifle ball,H On the 22nd jnst, a large rifle ball was removed, by Dsct* Witi. C. Tale, from the body of Mr. J ihn Duckworth, an aged re.volutioniry soldier. Tin ball was received by him while engaged in the battle fought at Ramsour’s Bridge, It entered iho leftarm, tt.'fthort distance hi tow the shoulderjoint, and embedded itself under the external edge of the pectoral muscle, where it has remained until the time of its removal, u period of sixty-two years. Its removalbecame necessary in consequence of thegrertt irretcktiot) and lnflamntion its pressure produced, to the surrounding integuments for the last few months/1
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Asheville Highland Messenger
Asheville, North Carolina, US
Fri, Sep 09, 1842
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