had complete composure of mind, and survived nine days. There is
an instance in which a man ran 400 paces after penetration of the left
ventricle, and lived for five hours. Morand gives an instance of
survival for five days after wound of the right ventricle. Saucerotte
speaks of survival for three days after injury to the heart.

Babington speaks of a case of heart-injury, caused by transfixion by a
bayonet, in which the patient survived nine hours. Other older cases
are as follows: l'Ecluse, seven days; the Ephemerides, four and six
days; Col de Vilars, twelve days; Marcucci, eighteen days; Bartholinus,
five days; Durande, five days; Boyer, five days; Capelle, twenty six
hours; Fahner, eleven days; Marigues, thirteen days; Morgagni, eight
days; la Motte, twelve hours; Rhodius, Riedlin, two days; Saviard,
eleven days; Sennert, three days; Triller, fourteen days; and Tulpius,
two and fifteen days; and Zittman, eight days.

The Duc de Berri, heir to the French throne, who was assassinated in
1826, lived several hours with one of his ventricles opened. His
surgeon, Dupuytren, was reprimanded for keeping the wound open with a
probe introduced every two hours, but this procedure has its advocates
at the present day. Randall mentions a gunshot wound of the right
ventricle which did not cause death until the sixty-seventh day. Grant
describes a wound in which a ball from a revolver entered a little to
the right of the sternum, between the cartilages of the 5th and 6th
ribs, and then entered the right ventricle about an inch from the apex.
It emerged from the lower part, passed through the diaphragm, the
cardiac end of the stomach, and lodged in the left kidney. The patient
remained in a state of collapse fifteen hours after being shot, and
with little or no nourishment lived twenty-six days. At the postmortem
examination the wounds in the organs were found to be healed, but the
cicatrices were quite evident. Bowling gives a case of gunshot wound of
the shoulder in which death resulted eleven weeks after, the bullet
being found in the left ventricle of the heart. Thompson has reported a
bayonet wound of the heart, after the reception of which the patient
lived four days. The bayonet entered the ventricle about 1 1/2 inches
from the left apex, traversing the left wall obliquely, and making exit
close to the septum ventriculorum. Roberts mentions a man who ran 60
yards and lived one hour after being shot through both lungs and