ng treatment, his pulse
became stronger, and all evidences of threatened collapse disappeared.
He rested well the first night and complained of no pain, then or
subsequently. The improvement was continuous. The temperature remained
normal until the evening of the fifth day, when it rose to 102.2
degrees, end again, on the evening of the sixth, to 102.3 degrees. This
rise was apparently without significance as the patient at no time
seemed disturbed by it. On the eighth day the temperature again reached
the normal and has since remained there. The boy is apparently well
now, suffers no inconvenience, and has left the hospital, safe from
danger and apparently free from any pulmonary embarrassment. He uses
well-developed diaphragmatic breathing which is fully sufficient."

Pollock reports the case of a boy of seven, whose lung was ruptured by
a four-wheeled cab which ran over him. He was discharged well in
thirty-two days. Bouilly speaks of recovery in a boy of seventeen,
after a rupture of the lung without fracture. There are several other
interesting cases of recovery on record.

There are instances of spontaneous rupture of the lung, from severe
cough. Hicks speaks of a child of ten months suffering with a severe
cough resembling pertussis, whose lung ruptured about two weeks after
the beginning of the cough, causing death on the second day. Ferrari
relates a curious case of rupture of the lung from deep inspiration.

Complete penetration or transfixion of the thoracic cavity is not
necessarily fatal, and some marvelous instances of recovery after
injuries of this nature, are recorded. Eve remarks that General Shields
was shot through the body by a discharge of a cannon at Cerro Gordo,
and was given up as certain to die. The General himself thought it was
grape-shot that traversed his chest. He showed no signs of hemoptysis,
and although in great pain, was able to give commands after reception
of the wound. In this case, the ball had evidently entered within the
right nipple, had passed between the lungs, through the mediastinum,
emerging slightly to the right of the spine. Guthrie has mentioned a
parallel instance of a ball traversing the thoracic cavity, the patient
completely recovering after treatment. Girard, Weeds, Meacham, Bacon,
Fryer and others report cases of perforating gunshot wounds of the
chest with recovery.

Sewell describes a case of transfixion of the chest in a youth of
eighteen. After mowing and