The left lung and cavity were perfectly normal.

The right lung was engorged and somewhat compressed by the blood in the pleural cavity.

The pericardium was much distended and contained from six to eight ounces of partially coagulated blood.

There was a fibrinous clot in the left ventricle.
Nonfatal Cardiac Injuries .-- Wounds of the heart are not necessarily fatal.

Of 401 cases of cardiac injury collected by Fischer there were as many as 50 recoveries, the diagnosis being confirmed in 33 instances by an autopsy in which there were found distinct signs of the cardiac injury.