On the fifteenth day the wound was healed and the man left the hospital quite restored to health.
Keen has reported four instances of accidental injury to the thoracic duct, near its termination at the base of the left side of the neck; the wounding was in the course of removals for deep-seated growths in this region.

Three of the cases recovered, having sustained no detriment from the injury to the thoracic duct.

One died; but the fatal influence was not specially connected with the wound of the duct.
Possibly the boldest operation in the history of surgery is that for ligation of the abdominal aorta for inguinal aneurysm.

It was first practiced by Sir Astley Cooper in 1817, and has since been performed several times with a uniformly fatal result, although Monteiro's patient survived until the tenth day, and there is a record in which ligature of the abdominal aorta did not cause death until the eleventh day.

Loreta of Bologna is accredited with operating on December 18, 1885, for the relief of a sailor who was suffering from an abdominal aneurysm caused by a blow.