It was necessary to enlarge the wound, and, under an anesthetic, after removing one and one-half inches of the 9th and 10th ribs, the wound was thoroughly packed with iodoform gauze and in twenty-one days the patient recovered.

Lavender mentions an incised wound of the heart penetrating the right ventricle, from which the patient recovered.
Purple gives, an account of a recovery from a wound penetrating both ventricles.

The diagnosis was confirmed by a necropsy nine years thereafter.

Stoll records a nonfatal injury to the heart.
Mastin reports the case of a man of thirty-two who was shot by a 38-caliber Winchester, from an ambush, at a distance of 110 yards.

The ball entered near the chest posteriorly on the left side just below and to the outer angle of the scapula, passed between the 7th and 8th ribs, and made its exit from the intercostal space of the 4th and 5th ribs, 2 1/4 inches from the nipple.