The pistol-ball entered the back 1 1/2 inches to the right of the spinous process of the 6th dorsal vertebra, and passed upward and very slightly inward toward the median line.

Its track could be followed only 1 1/4 inches.

Emphysema appeared fifteen minutes after the reception of the wound, and soon became pronounced throughout the front and side of the neck, a little over the edge of the lower jaw, and on the chest two inches below the sternum and one inch below the clavicle.

In four hours respiration became very frequent, short, and gasping, the thoracic walls and the abdomen scarcely moving.

The man continued to improve rapidly, the emphysema disappeared on the seventh day, and eighteen days after the reception of the wound he was discharged.