Thanks 4ager.
Penicillin wasn't yet invented so the put him in a bath of oidine hoping this "drawing agent" would move the bullet to a point where surgery could remove it.
It entered under his right arm, wound around internattly inside his ribs and lodged betwee the heart and spine where they could not go 100 years ago.
The wound eventually started to heal so they fattened him up with a high fat fiet and told him it would stabilize the bullet and hold it there and he would likely die 0of a heart attack in later years.
Sounds very silly by todays standard but it was a century ago.
John
