Prowse mentions the history of a case of impalement in a man of thirty-four, who, coming down a hay-stack, alighted on the handle of a pitchfork which struck him in the middle of the scrotum, and passed up between the skin and fascia to the 10th rib.

Recovery was prompt.
There are several cases on record in which extensive wounds of the abdominal parietes with protrusion and injury to the intestine have not been followed by death.

Injuries to the intestines themselves have already been spoken of, but there are several cases of evisceration worthy of record.
Doughty says that at midnight on June 7, 1868, he was called to see a man who had been stabbed in a street altercation with a negro.

When first seen in the street, the patient was lying on his back with his abdomen exposed, from which protruded an enormous mass of intestines, which were covered with sand and grit; the small intestine (ileum) was incised at one point and scratched at another by the passing knife.

The incision, about an inch in length, was closed with a single stitch of silk thread, and after thorough cleansing the whole mass was returned to the abdominal cavity.