The bar had entered posteriorly between the 9th and 10th ribs of the left side, and had traversed the thorax in an upward and outward direction, coming out anteriorly between the 5th and 6th ribs, about an inch below and slightly external to the nipple.

There was little constitutional disturbance, and the man was soon discharged cured.

Brown records a case of impalement in a boy of fourteen.

While running to a fire, he struck the point of the shaft of a carriage, which passed through his left chest, below the nipple.

There was, strangely, no hemorrhage, and no symptoms of so severe an injury; the boy recovered.
There is deposited in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in London, a mast-pivot, 15 inches in length and weighing between seven and eight pounds, which had passed obliquely through the body of a sailor.