Ollenrot reports an additional instance of recovery from heart-injury, but in his case the wound was only superficial.
There is a recent case of a boy of fourteen, who was wounded in the heart by a pen-knife stab.

The boy was discharged cured from the Middlesex Hospital, but three months after the reception of the injury he was taken ill and died.

A postmortem examination showed that the right ventricle had been penetrated in a slanting direction; the cause of death was apoplexy, produced by the weakening and thinning of the heart's walls, the effect of the wound.

Tillaux reports the case of a man of sixty-five, the victim of general paralysis, who passed into his chest a blade 16 cm.

long and 2 mm.broad.The wound of puncture was 5 cm.