His friends were told of his apparently hopeless condition.

There were no external signs of the injury with the exception of the emphysema following rupture of the lung.

Respiration was limited and thoracic movement diminished by adhesive straps and a binder; under careful treatment the man recovered.
Kartulus mentions an English boy of eight who, on June 1, 1879, while playing on the terrace in the third story of a house in Alexandria, in attempting to fly a kite in company with an Arab servant, slipped and fell 71 feet to a granite pavement below.

He was picked up conscious, but both legs were fractured about the middle.

He had so far recovered by the 24th of July that he could hobble about on crutches.