An incision was made from the ensiform cartilage to the umbilicus, the aneurysm exposed, and its cavity filled up with two meters of silver-plated wire.

Twenty days after no evidence of pulsation remained in the sac, and three months later the sailor was well and able to resume his duties.
Ligation of the common iliac artery, which, in a case of gunshot injury, was first practiced by Gibson of Philadelphia in 1812, is, happily, not always fatal.

Of 82 cases collected by Ashhurst, 23 terminated successfully.
Foreign bodies loose in the abdominal cavity are sometimes voided at stool, or may suppurate externally.

Fabricius Hildanus gives us a history of a person wounded with a sword-thrust into the abdomen, the point breaking off.

The sword remained one year in the belly and was voided at stool.