Mellichamp speaks of a gunshot wound of the heart with recovery,
and Ford records an instance in which a wound of the heart by a
buckshot was followed by recovery. O'Connor reports a case under
his observation in which a pistol-ball passed through three of
the four cavities of the heart and lodged in the root of the
right lung. The patient, a boy of fifteen, died of the effects of
cardiac disease three years and two months later. Bell mentions a
case in which, six years after the receipt of a gunshot wound of
the chest, a ball was found in the right ventricle. Christison
speaks of an instance in which a bullet was found in the heart of
a soldier in Bermuda, with no apparent signs of an opening to
account for its entrance. There is a case on record of a boy of
fourteen who was shot in the right shoulder, the bullet entering
through the right upper border of the trapezius, two inches from
the acromion process. Those who examined him supposed the ball
was lodged near the sternal end of the clavicle, four or five
inches from where it entered. In about six weeks the boy was at
his labors. Five years later he was attacked with severe
pneumonia and then first noticed tumultuous action of the heart
which continued to increase after his recovery.
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