There is a record of a man of twenty-five, a soldier in the Chinese war of 1860, who, in falling from his horse, was accidentally transfixed by a bayonet.

The steel entered his back two inches to the left of the last dorsal vertebra, and reappeared two inches to the left and below the umbilicus; as there was no symptom of visceral wound there were apparently no injuries except perforation of the parietes and the peritoneum.

The man recovered promptly.
Ross reports a case of transfixion in a young male aborigine, a native of New South Wales, who had received a spear-wound in the epigastrium during a quarrel; extraction was impossible because of the sharp-pointed barbs; the spear was, therefore, sawed off, and was removed posteriorly by means of a small incision.

The edges of the wound were cleansed, stitched, and a compress and bandage applied.
During the night the patient escaped and joined his comrades in the camp, and on the second day was suffering with radiating pains and distention.

The following day it was found that the stitches and plaster had been removed, and the anterior wound was gaping and contained an ichorous discharge.