The subsequent history of the case confirmed this diagnosis.

The patient was confined to bed six weeks, and it was five months afterward before he was able to go about, and then only with a crutch and a stick.
Park mentions an instance of rupture of the sciatic nerve caused by a patient giving a violent lurch during an operation at the hip-joint.
The instances occasionally observed of recovery of an injured leg after extensive severance and loss of substance are most marvelous.

Morton mentions a boy of sixteen, who was struck by one of the blades of a reaping machine, and had his left leg cut through about 1 1/4 inches above the ankle-joint.

The foot was hanging by the portion of skin corresponding to the posterior quarter of the circumference of the leg, together with the posterior tibial vessels and nerves.

These were the only structures escaping division, although the ankle-joint itself was intact.