Boone speaks of a gunshot wound in
which death was postponed until the thirteenth day. Bullock
mentions a case of gunshot wound in which the ball was found
lodged in the cavity of the ventricle four days and eighteen
hours after infliction of the wound. Carnochan describes a
penetrating wound of the heart in a subject in whom life had been
protracted eleven days. After death the bullet was found buried
and encysted in the heart. Holly reports a case of pistol-shot
wound through the right ventricle, septum, and aorta, with the
ball in the left ventricle. There was apparent recovery in
fourteen days and sudden death on the fifty-fifth day.
Hamilton gives an instance of a shoemaker sixty-three years old
who, while carrying a bundle, fell with rupture of the heart and
lived several minutes. On postmortem examination an opening in
the heart was found large enough to admit a blowpipe. Noble
speaks of duration of life for five and a half days after rupture
of the heart; and there are instances on record in which life has
been prolonged for thirteen hours and for fifty-three hours after
a similar injury. Glazebrook reports the case of a colored man of
thirty, of powerful physique, who was admitted to the Freedmen's
Hospital, Washington, D.
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