By treatment with ice, phenol, and opium, recovery was effected without peritonitis.
Among nonfatal perforating gunshot wounds of the abdomen, Loring: reports the case of a private in the First Artillery who recovered after a double gunshot perforation of the abdomen.

One of the balls entered 5 1/2 inches to the left of the umbilicus, and two inches above the crest of the ilium, making its exit two inches above the crest of the ilium, on a line with and two inches from the 4th lumbar vertebra.
The other ball entered four inches below and to the rear of the left nipple, making its exit four inches directly below the point of entrance.

In their passages these balls did not wound any of the viscera, and with the exception of traumatic fever there was no disturbance of the health of the patient.

Schell records the case of a soldier who was wounded July 3, 1867, by a conoid ball from a Remington revolver of the Army pattern.

The ball entered on the left side of the abdomen, its lower edge grazing the center of Poupart's ligament, and passing backward, inward, and slightly upward, emerged one inch to the left of the spinous process of the sacrum.