Death Caused by Thrusting a Bamboo-Stick into the Rectum

Miskun, Sowar, 1st Troop, 19th Bengal Lancers, a Patlian, aged 17, service two years, was admitted into hospital on the morning of 24th October 1873, complaining of pain iu the abdomen, and of having passed blood from his bowels. He was thought by the native hospital assistant to be suffering from dysentery, and as the weekly return of sick had to be sent, in the next morning, he was entered under that disease. Symptoms of obstruction and inflammation of the bowels now came on, the abdomen becoming greatly swollen and painful, and, in the following weekly return, he was entered under the head of obstruction of the bowels. Repeated enemata of warm water were given, but they brought away very little feculent matter. On the 29th the bowels were moved slightly, and again more freely on the 30tli, and on the two