When he was told that the Boeotians had conquered,
exclaiming "I die unconquered," he drew out the lance and
perished. Petrus de Largenta speaks of a man with an arrow in one
of his carotids, who was but slightly affected before its
extraction, but who died immediately after the removal of the
arrow. Among the remarkable recoveries from injuries of the neck
is that mentioned by Boerhaave, of a young man who lived nine or
ten days after receiving a sword-thrust through the neck between
the 4th and 5th vertebrae, dividing the vertebral artery.
Benedictus, Bonacursius, and Monroe, all mention recovery after
cases of cut-throat in which the esophagus as well as the trachea
was wounded, and food protruded from the external cut. Warren
relates the history of a case in which the vertebral artery was
wounded by the discharge of a pistol loaded with pebbles. The
hemorrhage was checked by compression and packing, and after the
discharge of a pebble and a piece of bone from the wound, the man
was seen a month afterward in perfect health. Corson of
Norristown, Pa., has reported the case of a quarryman who was
stabbed in the neck with a shoemaker's knife, severing the left
carotid one inch below its division.
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