Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1885 — Bullet Wounds of the Heart. [ARTICLE]

Bullet Wounds of the Heart.

Dr. H. L. Harrington, of Monmuth, Illinois, writes: “Under the title, ‘ls Death Necessarily Instantaneous after Bullet Wounds of Heart?’ you relate a very interesting case. Let me detail another very remarkable case, which came under my observation, while house physician in Cook County Hospital, Chicago, in the year 1875. One evening at dusk a man aged about 30 years, was brought in an express w»g‘ on, rapidly driven over rough pavements a distandb of over a mile, with a bullet wound of the left side; he was in a condition of profound shock, and was treated accordingly, by means of heat externally applied, stimulants, and morphia internally. Reaction ensued, and progressed sufficiently to admit of his moving about in bed, and talking in a loud voice, when he suddenly died, three hours after receiving the wound. An autopsy made by me the next morning revealed the fact that the bullet had perforated the apex of the heart, traversed the entire length of the left ventricle and auricle, and, after passing upward through the right lung, had become imbedded in the right shoulder.”—Medical Record. 1