The iron when found was smeared with blood and cerebral substance.
As was most natural such a wonderful case of cerebral injury attracted much notice.

Not only was the case remarkable in the apparent innocuous loss of cerebral substance, but in the singular chance which exempted the brain from either concussion or compression, and subsequent inflammation.

Professor Bigelow examined the patient in January, 1850, and made a most excellent report of the case, and it is due to his efforts that the case attained world-wide notoriety.

Bigelow found the patient quite recovered in his faculties of body and mind, except that he had lost the sight of the injured eye.

He exhibited a linear cicatrix one inch long near the angle of the ramus of the left lower jaw.