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From the length of the needle and the degree of oscillation, Callender inferred that it had pierced the heart just above the apex - near the tip of the left ventricle.
Some time in 1942, according to nautical legend, HMS Queen Elizabeth met the liner RMS Queen Elizabeth in mid-Atlantic. As the two vessels passed, the battleship hoisted the signal "SNAP"
I'll give no more away about this stranger-than-fiction tale for now. Except to reveal that it also involves a judge who was once in love with Jane Austen, and a phrenologist who believed that he could identify a murderer by the shape of his head.
If you're wondering what this odd sunburst pattern is, it's an artifact caused by the patient's metal hip prosthesis. What we're really interested in is the odd spiral formation in the centre of the image.
How "larking in the servants' hall" led to a knitting needle in the brain - an astonishing cautionary tale from the records of @BartsHospital, reported in 1879: https://t.co/KDoGWikCiY
A planned echocardiogram was abandoned when he started to sweat violently, his blood pressure dropped and his jugulars became distended. Cardiac tamponade, you cry! And so he was whisked into surgery, where a large excoriation was found in the wall of the left ventricle.
The tissue he left behind, the empty sac that had previously contained clotted blood, became necrotic, and the patient died two weeks later. For the rest of his career, Tuffier believed that if he had removed the sac he might have saved her.
@wingstone @jamesdgcook Ah well, to bring this back to comic books for a moment, all the pirates from the Uderzo version of that painting survive, so maybe you're right.
