The debris of the eyeball was enucleated and a drain was placed in the frontal wound, coming out through the orbit.

The patient soon regained consciousness and experienced no bad symptoms afterward.

The drains were gradually withdrawn, the process of healing advanced rapidly, and recovery soon ensued.
Annandale mentions an instance in which a knitting-needle penetrated the brain through the orbit.

Hewett speaks of perforation of the roof of the orbit and injury to the brain by a lead-pencil.
Gunshot Injuries of the Orbit .-- Barkan recites the case in which a leaden ball 32/100 inch in diameter was thrown from a sling into the left orbital cavity, penetrating between the eyeball and osseous wall of the orbit without rupturing the tunics of the eye or breaking the bony wall of the cavity.

It remained lodged two weeks without causing any pain or symptoms, and subsequently worked itself forward, contained in a perfect conjunctival sac, in which it was freely movable.
Buchanan recites the case of a private in the army who was shot at a distance of three feet away, the ball entering the inner canthus of the right eye and lodging under the skin of the opposite side.