During all the efforts at extraction the patient remained perfectly cool and complained of no pain.

A few drops of blood escaped from the wound after the removal of the dagger, and in a few minutes the man walked to a hospital where he remained a few days without fever or pain.

The wound healed, and he soon returned to work.

By experiments on the cadaver Dubrisay found that the difficulty in extraction was due to rust on the steel, and by the serrated edges of the wound in the bone.
Warren describes a case of epilepsy of seven months' standing, from depression of the skull caused by a red hot poker thrown at the subject's head.

Striking the frontal bone just above the orbit, it entered three inches into the cerebral substance.