Today medical journal seldom intentionally publish laugh . How pleasant that in the 1800s they took a more enlightened posture towards merriment . Sure , it lead to a brief menstruation when the public was certain fair sex could get significant via bullet , but think of the laughs .
Legrand Capers was born in 1834 . He went to medical school and service for years as a estimable military physician before thoroughly exist up to his name . In 1874 , after having assist as a doctor in the military service of the Confederate military , he send a little typesetter’s case story in to The American Medical Journal . It concerned a twofold - wounding on the battlefield . Capers wrote :
I was presently by the side of the young man , and , upon examination , retrieve a compound fracture , with extensive comminution of the left over tibia ; the bollock having recoil from these parts , and , in its onward flying , passed through the scrotum , bear away the left testicle . hardly had I finished garnish the wounds of this poor boyfriend , when the honorable matron came unravel to me in the greatest distress , begging me to go to one of her girl , who , she informed me , had been gravely wounded a few minutes before . Hastening to the star sign , I found that the firstborn of the vernal dame had indeed received a most serious wound . A minnie globe had penetrate the odd abdominal parietes , about midway between the umbilicus and anterior spinal physical process of the ilium , and was lost in the abdominal cavity , leaving a ragged injury behind . Believing there was little or no hope of her recuperation , I had only clock time to order an anodyne , when our ground forces fell back , leaving both field and small town in the helping hand of the foe .
Seven months afterwards , he found the hurt young cleaning woman alive , but in the late stages of gestation . presently the woman gave birth to a healthy boy . A few calendar month after the delivery , the grandmother asked Capers to see babe , as there was something wrong with his egg . Upon examination Capers found , “ a minnie orb , mashed and batter as if it had met in its flight some hard , unyielding core . ”
In the next issuance , the editor program claim that the entire case was a caper that had had been played out between himself and Doctor Capers . Many breathe a suspiration of relief , but the legend remained . Personally , I think that when Capers got to the gunpoint of the child make the minnie glob in its own testicles , he was gilding the lily . Did the kid grow from the egg outward ? Or did the leftover patriarchal testicle just have an affinity for testicle anatomy ? It introduces an chemical element that ’s not take . Still , good one , Legrand . Good one .
Image : United States Marine Corps
[ ViaBattle Detective , Encyclopedia of Urban Legends . ]
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