In one of Kirchner's cases a girl of nine had been violently pushed against a window-sill, striking the front of her chest in front of the 3d rib.

She suffered from pleural effusion, which, on aspiration, proved to be chyle.

She ultimately recovered her health.

In 1891 Eyer reported a case of rupture of the thoracic duct, causing death on the thirty-eighth day.
The young man had been caught between a railroad car and an engine, and no bones were broken.
Manley reports a case of rupture of the thoracic duct in a man of thirty-five, who was struck by the pole of a brewery wagon; he was knocked down on his back, the wheel passing squarely over his abdomen.
There was subsequent bulging low down in the right iliac fossa, caused by the presence of a fluid, which chemic and microscopic examination proved was chyle.

From five to eight ounces a day of this fluid were discharged, until the tenth day, when the bulging was opened and drained.