Immediately after the accident the patient walked upstairs and got in bed; his recovery progressed uninterruptedly, and his wounds were practically healed at the end of nine weeks; he is reported to have lived eleven years after this terrible accident.
In the Indian Medical Gazette there is an account of a private of thirty-five, who was thrown forward and off his horse while endeavoring to mount.

He fell on a lance which penetrated his chest and came out through the scapula.

The horse ran for about 100 yards, the man hanging on and trying to stop him.

After the extraction of the lance the patient recovered.

Longmore gives an instance of complete transfixion by a lance of the right side of the chest and lung, the patient recovering.