His wound was dressed and he was recovering, but on September 11th he tore the cast off his abdomen, and pulled out of the wound the omentum and 32 inches of colon, which he tore off and threw between his pallet and the wall.

Strange to say he did not die until eight days after this horrible injury.
Tardieu relates the case of a chemist who removed a large part of the mesentery with a knife, and yet recovered.

Delmas of Montpellier reports the history of a wagoner with complete rupture of the intestines and rupture of the diaphragm, and who yet finished his journey, not dying until eighteen hours after.
Successful Intestinal Resection .-- In 1755 Nedham of Norfolk reported the case of a boy of thirteen who was run over and eviscerated.

It was found necessary to remove 57 inches of the protruding bowel, but the boy made a subsequent recovery.

Koebererle of Strasburg performed an operation on a woman of twenty-two for the relief of intestinal obstruction.