A line drawn from the wound of entrance to that of exit would pass exactly through the right ventricle.

After receiving the wound the man walked about twenty steps, and then, feeling very weak from profuse hemorrhage from the front of the wound, he sat down.

With little or no treatment the wound closed and steady improvement set in; the patient was discharged in three weeks.

As the man was still living at last reports, the exact amount of damage done in the track of the bullet is not known, although Mastin's supposition is that the heart was penetrated.
Mellichamp speaks of a gunshot wound of the heart with recovery, and Ford records an instance in which a wound of the heart by a buckshot was followed by recovery.

O'Connor reports a case under his observation in which a pistol-ball passed through three of the four cavities of the heart and lodged in the root of the right lung.