There was slight hemorrhage from the wound at the time, but the clot dried and closed the wound, and remained there until it was removed on the morning of his discharge, leaving a small, dry, white cicatrix.
Loss of Lung-tissue .-- The old Amsterdam authority, Tulpius, has recorded a case in which a piece of lung of about three fingers' breadth protruded through a large wound of the lung under the left nipple.

This wound received no medical attention for forty-eight hours, when the protruding portion of lung was thought to be dead, and was ligated and cut off; it weighed about three ounces.

In about two weeks the wound healed with the lung adherent to it and this condition was found six years later at the necropsy of this individual.

Tulpius quoted Celaus and Hippocrates as authorities for the surgical treatment of this case.

In 1787 Bell gave an account of a case in which a large portion of the lung protruded and was strangulated by the edges of the thoracic wound, yet the patient made a good recovery.