The patient recovered and was returned to duty in May, 1868.

Patzki mentioned a private in the Sixth Cavalry, aged twenty-five, who recovered from a gunshot wound of the abdomen, penetrating the right lobe of the liver and the gall-bladder.
Resection of the Liver .-- It is remarkable to what extent portions of the liver may be resected by the knife, cautery, or ligature, and the patient recover.

Langenbuch records a case in which he successfully removed the greater portion of the left lobe of a woman of thirty.

The lobe had been extensively deformed by tight lacing, and caused serious inconvenience.

There was considerable hemorrhage, but the vessels were secured, and the woman made a good recovery.