The patient, a boy of fifteen, died of the effects of cardiac disease three years and two months later.

Bell mentions a case in which, six years after the receipt of a gunshot wound of the chest, a ball was found in the right ventricle.

Christison speaks of an instance in which a bullet was found in the heart of a soldier in Bermuda, with no apparent signs of an opening to account for its entrance.

There is a case on record of a boy of fourteen who was shot in the right shoulder, the bullet entering through the right upper border of the trapezius, two inches from the acromion process.

Those who examined him supposed the ball was lodged near the sternal end of the clavicle, four or five inches from where it entered.