Ellis mentions ligature of both carotids in four and a half days, as a treatment for a gunshot wound, with subsequent recovery.
Lewtas reports a case of ligation of the innominate and carotid arteries for traumatic aneurysm (likely a hematoma due to a gunshot injury of the subclavian artery).

The patient was in profound collapse, but steadily reacted and was discharged cured on the forty-fifth day, with no perceptible pulse at the wrist and only a feeble beat in the pulmonary artery.
Garengeot, Wirth, Fine, and Evers, all mention perforating wounds of the trachea and esophagus with recoveries.

Van Swieten and Hiester mention cases in which part of the trachea was carried away by a ball, with recovery.

Monro, Tulpius, Bartholinus, and Pare report severance of the trachea with the absence of oral breathing, in which the divided portions were sutured, with successful results.

In his "Theatro Naturae," Bodinus says that William, Prince of Orange, lost the sense of taste after receiving a wound of the larynx; according to an old authority, a French soldier became mute after a similar accident.
Davies-Colley mentions a boy of eighteen who fell on a stick about the thickness of the index finger, transfixing his neck from right to left; he walked to a doctor's house, 250 yards away, with the stick in situ.
In about two weeks he was discharged completely well.