When not taking digitalis, his pulse was 100 to 120, regular, and never intermittent.
Hypertrophy of the Heart .-- The heart of a man of ordinary size weighs nine ounces, and that of a woman eight; in cases of hypertrophy, these weights may be doubled, although weights above 25 ounces are rare.
According to Osler, Beverly Robinson describes a heart weighing 53 ounces, and Dulles has reported one weighing 48 ounces.

Among other modern records are the following: Fifty and one-half ounces, 57 ounces, and one weighing four pounds and six ounces.

The Ephemerides contains an incredible account of a heart that weighed 14 pounds.

Favell describes a heart that only weighed 3 1/2 ounces.
Wounds of the aorta are almost invariably fatal, although cases are recorded by Pelletan, Heil, Legouest, and others, in which patients survived such wounds for from two months to several years.

Green mentions a case of stab-wound in the suprasternal fossa.