The patient had little hemorrhage, but had expectorated and swallowed much blood.

He had a constant desire to swallow, which continued several days.

The treatment was expectant; and in less than three weeks the soldier was returned to duty.

From the same authority there is a condensation of five reports of gunshot wounds of the neck, from all of which the patients recovered and returned to duty.
Braman describes the case of a man on whom several injuries were inflicted by a drunken companion.

The first wound was slight; the second a deep flesh-wound over the trapezius muscle; the third extended from the right sterno-cleido-mastoid midway upward to the middle of the jaw and down to the rapine of the trachea.