At the necropsy a needle, six cm.

in length, was found transfixing the heart, with which the relatives of the deceased said he had stabbed himself twenty-two months prior to his death.

There is a collection of cases in which bullets have been lodged in the heart from twenty to thirty years.
Balch reports a case in which a leaden bullet remained twenty years in the walls of the heart.

Hamilton mentions an instance of gunshot wound of the heart, in which for twenty years a ball was embedded in the wall of the right ventricle, death ultimately being caused by pneumonia.
Needles have quite frequently been found in the heart after death; Graves, Leaming, Martin, Neill, Piorry, Ryerson, and others record such cases.

Callender mentions recovery of the patient after removal of a needle from the heart.
Garangeot mentions an aged Jesuit of seventy-two, who had in the substance of his heart a bone 4 1/2 inches long and possibly an inch thick.