He did not fall at the time he was struck, and fifteen minutes after the stick was removed he arose without help and walked away.

Apparently no extensive cerebral lesion had been caused, and the man suffered no subsequent cerebral symptoms except, three years afterward, impairment of memory.
There is an account given by Chelius of an extraordinary wound caused by a ramrod.

The rod was accidentally discharged while being employed in loading, and struck a person a few paces away.

It entered the head near the root of the zygomatic arch, about a finger's breadth from the outer corner of the right eye, passed through the head, emerging at the posterior superior angle of the parietal bone, a finger's breadth from the sagittal suture, and about the same distance above the superior angle of the occipital bone.

The wounded man attempted to pull the ramrod out, but all his efforts were ineffectual.