Recovery ensued in spite of the delay in treatment.
Gunshot Injuries .-- Swain mentions a patient who stood before a looking glass, and, turning his head far around to the left, fired a pistol shot into his brain behind the right ear.

The bullet passed into his mouth, and he spat it out.

Some bleeding occurred from both the internal and external wounds; the man soon began to suffer with a troublesome cough, with bloody expectoration; his tongue was coated and drawn to the right; he became slightly deaf in his right ear and dragged his left leg in walking.

These symptoms, together with those of congestion of the lung, continued for about a week, when he died, apparently from his pulmonary trouble.
Ford quotes the case of a lad of fifteen who was shot in the head, 3/4 inch anterior to the summit of the right ear, the ball escaping through the left os frontis, 1 1/4 inch above the center of the brow.

Recovery ensued, with a cicatrix on the forehead, through which the pulsations of the brain could be distinctly seen.