Bouilly speaks of recovery in a boy of seventeen, after a rupture of the lung without fracture.

There are several other interesting cases of recovery on record.
There are instances of spontaneous rupture of the lung, from severe cough.

Hicks speaks of a child of ten months suffering with a severe cough resembling pertussis, whose lung ruptured about two weeks after the beginning of the cough, causing death on the second day.

Ferrari relates a curious case of rupture of the lung from deep inspiration.
Complete penetration or transfixion of the thoracic cavity is not necessarily fatal, and some marvelous instances of recovery after injuries of this nature, are recorded.

Eve remarks that General Shields was shot through the body by a discharge of a cannon at Cerro Gordo, and was given up as certain to die.