The right testicle was absent, and the apex of the heart was displaced about an inch.
Woodbury reports the case of a girl of fourteen, who fell seven or eight feet directly upon an erect stake in a cart; the tuberosity was first struck, and then the stake passed into the anus, up the rectum for two inches, thence through the rectal wall, and through the body in an obliquely upward direction.

Striking the ribs near the left nipple it fractured three, and made its exit.

The stake was three inches in circumference, and 27 inches of its length passed into the body, six or seven inches emerging from the chest.

This girl recovered so rapidly that she was able to attend school six weeks afterward.

In a case reported by Bailey a middle-aged woman, while sliding down a hay-stack, struck directly upon a pitchfork handle which entered the vagina; the whole weight of the woman was successfully maintained by the cellular tissue of the uterovaginal culdesac.
Minot speaks of the passage of one prong of a pitchfork through the body of a man of twenty-one, from the perineum to the umbilicus; the man recovered.
Hamilton reports a case of laceration of the perineum with penetration of the pelvic cavity to the depth of ten inches by a stick 3/4 inch thick.