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The Prussian Snail Knife - A Remarkable Story
Some of these stories fairly ghastly. Its you do feel guilty afterwards for having laughed at some of these people, because, and some of these stories are quite remarkable. There's this remarkable story from the seventeenth century in holland of a man who became known in the english language literature as the the prussian swallow knife. You have a really interesting story about a soldier from the united states civil war. That's a fairly extreme example of a self inflicted injury, but with a rather spectacular outcome to it.
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