In ten days the wound was perfectly healed and the patient went back to his work.

A somewhat similar case, but which terminated fatally, is recorded in the American Journal of the Medical Sciences of July, 1882." The extent of permanent injury done by foreign bodies in the orbit is variable.

In some instances the most extensive wound is followed by the happiest result, while in others vision is entirely destroyed by a minor injury.
Carter reports a case in which a hat-peg 3 3/10 inches long and about 1/4 inch in diameter (upon one end of which was a knob nearly 1/2 inch in diameter) was impacted in the orbit for from ten to twenty days, and during this time the patient was not aware of the fact.

Recovery followed its extraction, the vision and movements of the eye being unimpaired.
According to the Philosophical Transactions a laborer thrust a long lath with great violence into the inner canthus of the left eye of his fellow workman, Edward Roberts.

The lath broke off short, leaving a piece two inches long, 1/2 inch wide, and 1/4 inch thick, in situ.
Roberts rode about a mile to the surgery of Mr.Justinian Morse, who extracted it with much difficulty; recovery followed, together with restoration of the sight and muscular action.