During the first month urine passed freely through the wounds made by the entrance and exit of the ball, and was generally mixed with pus and blood.

Fecal matter was frequently discharged through the posterior wound.

Some time during the third week he passed several small pieces of bone by the rectum.

At the end of the fifth week the wound of exit healed, and for the first time after his injury urine was discharged through the urethra.

The wound of entrance gradually closed after five months, but opened again in a few weeks and continued, at varying intervals, alternately closed and open until September, 1865.