The Duc de Berri, heir to the French throne, who was assassinated
in 1826, lived several hours with one of his ventricles opened.
His surgeon, Dupuytren, was reprimanded for keeping the wound
open with a probe introduced every two hours, but this procedure
has its advocates at the present day. Randall mentions a gunshot
wound of the right ventricle which did not cause death until the
sixty-seventh day. Grant describes a wound in which a ball from a
revolver entered a little to the right of the sternum, between
the cartilages of the 5th and 6th ribs, and then entered the
right ventricle about an inch from the apex. It emerged from the
lower part, passed through the diaphragm, the cardiac end of the
stomach, and lodged in the left kidney. The patient remained in a
state of collapse fifteen hours after being shot, and with little
or no nourishment lived twenty-six days. At the postmortem
examination the wounds in the organs were found to be healed, but
the cicatrices were quite evident. Bowling gives a case of
gunshot wound of the shoulder in which death resulted eleven
weeks after, the bullet being found in the left ventricle of the
heart. Thompson has reported a bayonet wound of the heart, after
the reception of which the patient lived four days.
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