The protruding lung was lacerated and burnt.

Immediately below this was another protrusion, which proved to be a portion of the stomach, lacerated through all its coats.

Through an orifice, large enough to admit a fore-finger, oozed the remnants of the food he had taken for breakfast.

His injuries were dressed; extensive sloughing commenced, and the wound became considerably enlarged.

Portions of the lung, cartilages, ribs, and of the ensiform process of the sternum came away.