According to Osler, Beverly Robinson
describes a heart weighing 53 ounces, and Dulles has reported one
weighing 48 ounces. Among other modern records are the following:
Fifty and one-half ounces, 57 ounces, and one weighing four
pounds and six ounces. The Ephemerides contains an incredible
account of a heart that weighed 14 pounds. Favell describes a
heart that only weighed 3 1/2 ounces.
Wounds of the aorta are almost invariably fatal, although cases
are recorded by Pelletan, Heil, Legouest, and others, in which
patients survived such wounds for from two months to several
years. Green mentions a case of stab-wound in the suprasternal
fossa. The patient died one month after of another cause, and at
the postmortem examination the aorta was shown to have been
opened; the wound in its walls was covered with a spheric,
indurated coagulum. No attempt at union had been made.
Zillner observed a penetrating wound of the aorta after which the
patient lived sixteen days, finally dying of pericarditis.
Zillner attributed this circumstance to the small size of the
wound, atheroma and degeneration of the aorta and slight
retraction of the inner coat, together with a possible plugging
of the pericardial opening.
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