The eye was not lost, and opacity of the lower part of the cornea alone resulted.
Cold water and purging constituted the treatment.
It is said a that an old soldier of one of Napoleon's armies had a musket-ball removed from his left orbit after twenty-four years' lodgment.

He was struck in the orbit by a musket-ball, but as at the same time a companion fell dead at his side he inferred that the bullet rebounded from his orbit and killed his comrade.

For twenty-four years he had suffered from cephalalgia and pains and partial exophthalmos of the left eye.

After removal of the ball the eye partially atrophied.
Warren reports a case of a man of thirty-five whose eyeball was destroyed by the explosion of a gun, the breech-pin flying off and penetrating the head.

The orbit was crushed; fourteen months afterward the man complained of soreness on the hard palate, and the whole breech-pin, with screw attached, was extracted.