Hospital, and notwithstanding his transfixion by so formidable an
instrument, in five months Taylor had recovered sufficiently to walk,
and ultimately returned to his duties as a seaman.

In the same museum, near to this spike, is the portion of a shaft of
the carriage which passed through the body of a gentleman who happened
to be standing near the vehicle when the horse plunged violently
forward, with the result that the off shaft penetrated his body under
the left arm, and came out from under the right arm, pinning the
unfortunate man to the stable door. Immediately after the accident the
patient walked upstairs and got in bed; his recovery progressed
uninterruptedly, and his wounds were practically healed at the end of
nine weeks; he is reported to have lived eleven years after this
terrible accident.

In the Indian Medical Gazette there is an account of a private of
thirty-five, who was thrown forward and off his horse while endeavoring
to mount. He fell on a lance which penetrated his chest and came out
through the scapula. The horse ran for about 100 yards, the man hanging
on and trying to stop him. After the extraction of the lance the
patient recovered. Longmore gives an instance of complete transfixion
by a lance of the right side of the chest and lung, the patient
recovering. Ruddock mentions cases of penetrating wounds of both lungs
with recovery.

There is a most remarkable instance of recovery after major thoracic
wounds recorded by Brokaw. In a brawl, a shipping clerk received a
thoracic wound extending from the 3d rib to within an inch of the
navel, 13 1/2 inches long, completely severing all the muscular and
cartilaginous structures, including the cartilages of the ribs from the
4th to the 9th, and wounding the pleura and lung. In addition there was
an abdominal wound 6 1/2 inches long, extending from the navel to about
two inches above Poupart's ligament, causing almost complete intestinal
evisceration. The lung was partially collapsed. The cartilages were
ligated with heavy silk, and the hemorrhage checked by ligature and by
packing gauze in the inter-chondral spaces. The patient speedily
recovered, and was discharged in a little over a month, the only
disastrous result of his extraordinary injuries being a small ventral
hernia.

In wounds of the diaphragm, particularly those from stabs and gunshot
injuries, death is generally due to accompanying lesions rather than to
injury. Hollerius, and Alex