So-called medical chewed or pain bullets are mis-identified. Here is a plausible explanation from an antique medical, surgical & dental artifacts resource site: They think that people wouldn't put easily swallowed bullets in their mouth during surgeries and bite marks on the bullets are mostly from animals and especially from hogs.
On the other hand, I found some sources that are against the idea of pain bullets. These bullets, which Civil War soldiers bit during surgery conducted without anesthesia, are known as pain bullets also:Īrchaeologists have determined that these human-chewed bullets are most likely from men who perhaps believed it would ease their pain to "bite the bullet." Here is another evidence, chewed bullets from the Battle of Antietam. Spotting the difference between a bullet chewed by a hog and one a human chomped on to withstand a painful medical procedure takes some skill, but dental professionals are best equipped to notice. Swank said the vast majority have been chewed on by feral hogs who rooted them from the ground. This makes the musket ball a rare find because while many lead musket balls from the Civil War and prior conflicts have been found with teeth marks on them, Dr. Bernard Levy analyzed the musket ball and verified the impressions are from a human’s dentition. University of Maryland Dental School pathologist and forensic odontologist Dr. The bullet on display at the museum was excavated from what is now the Northport section of Baltimore but is believed to have been a field hospital during the War of 1812. The bullet has molar tooth cusp imprints, reportedly from a patient biting during surgery without anesthesia.Īn evidence possibly showing the origin of the phrase is the tooth marks found on a 200-year-old musket ball on display at The Dr. The 21st Massachusetts Regiment had fought at a local cornfield with extreme and horrifying injuries. 50 caliber bullet found at the site of the Battle of Ox Hill. Prior to the late 1800s, one could get drunk or literally bite the bullet, neither of which had any effect on pain. From the book Anesthesia in Cosmetic Surgery, edited by Barry Friedberg (Publisher: Cambridge University Press):
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