Rodericus a Veiga tells the story of a deer
that was killed in hunting, and in whose heart was fixed a piece
of arrow that appeared to have been there some time. Glandorp
experimentally produced a nonfatal wound in the heart of a
rabbit. Wounds of the heart, not lethal, have been reported by
Benivenius, Marcellus Donatus, Schott, Stalpart van der Wiel, and
Wolff. Ollenrot reports an additional instance of recovery from
heart-injury, but in his case the wound was only superficial.
There is a recent case of a boy of fourteen, who was wounded in
the heart by a pen-knife stab. The boy was discharged cured from
the Middlesex Hospital, but three months after the reception of
the injury he was taken ill and died. A postmortem examination
showed that the right ventricle had been penetrated in a slanting
direction; the cause of death was apoplexy, produced by the
weakening and thinning of the heart's walls, the effect of the
wound. Tillaux reports the case of a man of sixty-five, the
victim of general paralysis, who passed into his chest a blade 16
cm. long and 2 mm. broad. The wound of puncture was 5 cm. below
the nipple and 2 cm. to the outside. The left side of the chest
was emphysematous and ecchymosed.
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