Saucerotte speaks of survival for three days after injury to the heart.
Babington speaks of a case of heart-injury, caused by transfixion by a bayonet, in which the patient survived nine hours.

Other older cases are as follows: l'Ecluse, seven days; the Ephemerides, four and six days; Col de Vilars, twelve days; Marcucci, eighteen days; Bartholinus, five days; Durande, five days; Boyer, five days; Capelle, twenty six hours; Fahner, eleven days; Marigues, thirteen days; Morgagni, eight days; la Motte, twelve hours; Rhodius, Riedlin, two days; Saviard, eleven days; Sennert, three days; Triller, fourteen days; and Tulpius, two and fifteen days; and Zittman, eight days.
The Duc de Berri, heir to the French throne, who was assassinated in 1826, lived several hours with one of his ventricles opened.

His surgeon, Dupuytren, was reprimanded for keeping the wound open with a probe introduced every two hours, but this procedure has its advocates at the present day.

Randall mentions a gunshot wound of the right ventricle which did not cause death until the sixty-seventh day.

Grant describes a wound in which a ball from a revolver entered a little to the right of the sternum, between the cartilages of the 5th and 6th ribs, and then entered the right ventricle about an inch from the apex.
It emerged from the lower part, passed through the diaphragm, the cardiac end of the stomach, and lodged in the left kidney.