Immediately after the accident he complained of constant and
pressing desire to void his urine. While urinating on the evening
of the third day, the ball escaped from the urethra and fell with
a click into the chamber. After the discharge of the ball the
intolerable symptoms improved, and in two or three weeks there
was complete recovery. Hoag mentions a man who was wounded by a
round musket-ball weighing 400 grains. It had evidently passed
through the lung and diaphragm and entered the alimentary canal;
it was voided by the rectum five days after the injury. Lenox
mentions the fact of a bullet entering the abdominal wall and
subsequently being passed from the rectum. Day and Judkins report
similar cases. Rundle speaks of the lodgment of a bullet, and its
escape, after a period of seven and one-half years, into the
alimentary canal, causing internal strangulation and death.
Wounds of the liver often end very happily, and there are many
cases on record in which such injuries have been followed by
recovery, even when associated with considerable loss of
liver-substance. In the older records, Glandorp and Scultetus
mention cures after large wounds of the liver. Fabricius Hildanus
reports a case that ended happily, in which a piece of liver was
found in the wound, having been separated by a sword-thrust.
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