The senses were not at all deteriorated.
Richardson tells of a soldier who was struck by a Minie ball on the left temporal bone; the missile passed out through the left frontal bone 1/2 inch to the left of the middle of the forehead.

He was only stunned, and twenty-four hours later his intellect was undisturbed.
There was no operation; free suppuration with discharges of fragments of skull and broken-down substance ensued for four weeks, when the wounds closed kindly, and recovery followed.
Angle records the case of a cowboy who was shot by a comrade in mistake.

The ball entered the skull beneath the left mastoid process and passed out of the right eye.

The man recovered.
Rice describes the case of a boy of fourteen who was shot in the head, the ball directly traversing the brain substance, some of which protruded from the wound.

The boy recovered.