2 degrees, end
again, on the evening of the sixth, to 102.3 degrees. This rise
was apparently without significance as the patient at no time
seemed disturbed by it. On the eighth day the temperature again
reached the normal and has since remained there. The boy is
apparently well now, suffers no inconvenience, and has left the
hospital, safe from danger and apparently free from any pulmonary
embarrassment. He uses well-developed diaphragmatic breathing
which is fully sufficient."
Pollock reports the case of a boy of seven, whose lung was
ruptured by a four-wheeled cab which ran over him. He was
discharged well in thirty-two days. Bouilly speaks of recovery in
a boy of seventeen, after a rupture of the lung without fracture.
There are several other interesting cases of recovery on record.
There are instances of spontaneous rupture of the lung, from
severe cough. Hicks speaks of a child of ten months suffering
with a severe cough resembling pertussis, whose lung ruptured
about two weeks after the beginning of the cough, causing death
on the second day. Ferrari relates a curious case of rupture of
the lung from deep inspiration.
Complete penetration or transfixion of the thoracic cavity is not
necessarily fatal, and some marvelous instances of recovery after
injuries of this nature, are recorded.
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