Carnochan describes a penetrating wound of the heart in a subject in whom life had been protracted eleven days.
After death the bullet was found buried and encysted in the heart.
Holly reports a case of pistol-shot wound through the right ventricle, septum, and aorta, with the ball in the left ventricle.

There was apparent recovery in fourteen days and sudden death on the fifty-fifth day.
Hamilton gives an instance of a shoemaker sixty-three years old who, while carrying a bundle, fell with rupture of the heart and lived several minutes.

On postmortem examination an opening in the heart was found large enough to admit a blowpipe.

Noble speaks of duration of life for five and a half days after rupture of the heart; and there are instances on record in which life has been prolonged for thirteen hours and for fifty-three hours after a similar injury.

Glazebrook reports the case of a colored man of thirty, of powerful physique, who was admitted to the Freedmen's Hospital, Washington, D.C., at 12.30 A.M., on February 5, 1895.