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Jennifer Nalewicki

Spanish Civil War soldier saw the world 'backward' after bullet pierced brain, historic case report reveals

black and white photo of a man's eye as he looks through a small glass lens that appears to have flipped his eye upside down

After being shot in the head in 1938 during the Spanish Civil War, a soldier began seeing the world backward and upside down. 

According to a new report of the historic case, published April 1 in the journal Neurologia, when doctors examined the 25-year-old Spanish soldier, known as Patient M, they found straightforward wounds where the bullet entered and exited his skull. These wounds didn't require surgery.

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