Belloste, in his "Hospital Surgeon," states that he had under has care a most dreadful case of a girl of eleven or twelve years, who received 18 or 19 cutlass wounds of the head, each so violent as to chip out pieces of bone; but, notwithstanding her severe injuries, she made recovery.

At the Emergency Hospital in Washington, D.C., there was received a negress with at least six gaping wounds of the head, in some cases denuding the periosteum and cutting the cranium.

During a debauch the night before she had been engaged in a quarrel with a negro with whom she lived, and was struck by him several times on the head with an axe.

She lay all night unconscious, and was discovered the next morning with her hair and clothes and the floor on which she lay drenched with blood.

The ambulance was summoned to take her to the morgue, but on the arrival of the police it was seen that feeble signs of life still existed.