In 1880 Chiari said that while
dissecting the body of a man who died of phthisis, he found a
false aneurysm of the ascending aorta with a transverse rupture
of the vessel by the side of it, which had completely cicatrized.
Hill reports the case of a soldier who was stabbed with a
bowie-knife nine inches long and three inches wide. The blade
passed through the diaphragm, cut off a portion of the liver, and
severed the descending aorta at a point about the 7th dorsal
vertebra; the soldier lived over three hours after complete
division of this important vessel. Heil reports the case of a man
of thirty-two, a soldier in the Bavarian army, who, in a quarrel
in 1812, received a stab in the right side. The instrument used
was a common table-knife, which was passed between the 5th and
6th ribs, entering the left lung, and causing copious hemorrhage.
The patient recovered in four months, but suffered from amaurosis
which had commenced at the time of the stab. Some months
afterward he contracted pneumonia and was readmitted to the
hospital, dying in 1813. At the postmortem the cicatrix in the
chest was plainly visible, and in the ascending aorta there was
seen a wound, directly in the track of the knife, which was of
irregular border and was occupied by a firm coagulum of blood.
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