New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-03-22
ELL POOLE'S WOUND OF TIE HEART.

the City Of New ok oy gang o' fuflsus, mss eA-
od some surprise from the fact tia, he survived his
wounds eleven days and the pos;-mortem e1amni-
;isp curously revealed that q bullet which vas
svpp, sd 10 have fallen from the wound the ches,,
wes found inbedded in the substance Of the hesrt.
TIE popular iGea is tina. any wound OF the heart il,
necefsariy fatal almost Immediately. And there ara
professional minds which but little in advance OF
TIE cou,mon idea on this subject. /; has not been
great many years since professor, in the Leading
recical school in the United States, undertook 70
tsb sb the feet, in The fmerlran journal ot Hef'cH
Sc.Hce thst any wound of the heart .rily
81 d Immediately fatal. His essay was based upon the
report q oil extraordinary case which occurred in
Tirnsssee to which we shall refer presently.
We purpose 70 preseLt some curious facts upon
wounds Of the heart which are Of Interest - the pnb.
lie sn1 which show very extraordinary results. The
case OF Poole remark able it may appear, il en- or
oinery matter compared with some OF tue examples
We shall pesent
A riysician of McNairy County, Tennessee Dr..
Randall reported many wears 40 the case OF negro
bow vho was wounded in the chest with Dad OF
shot. The would was given on tne 5th OF ipri, and
tie treatment Of the vas skifal aud very judi
ccus. II was directed - the re'.sf OF Inflammation
OF the lung and bele indication that the heart
VS. WOW Ged. The boy seemed to recover regularly
sud slowly up 70 the s.rfy.sfregh day. whel he died
suddenly, from over inGG.g ence IN eating. The lung
which wss wOsLded never performed service after re-
Ce.viDg the shot and ihe death due {, the condi
iioo OF the lung In tracog the course OF the wound
after death the ply sicans aston she'd at finding
thee stct IN The bottom OF the ventnce ana two SCOT
in The bottom Of the aurce Of the heart. The woUnos
n de IN the substance Of the heart we're al firmly
besl,d, AID the Internal surface Of the cavities IN
which u SHOT were onI5. betrayed no slgn 81 hty
ing suffered 10 sDy way the OF the shot.
The boy lived from the 9th ofADrlt the llih oi June.
or sixty days and the death que 10 the Jung
according 10 tie physicians In the case aid not TO the
shot IL the heart.
It must be borne in mind in residing the ceses
pIeeent from the Dc'aORrGire M.dicgie, shat inc--d
wounds of Inc heart sucn are made BY sharp cut
ting weapon are more apt 10 5e :ata from imneiis9
hemoirhage, than WOUNDS made by gun-sho;. Tie
latter ear the bloodvesse- and torn arteries bleed
less than those wounded with clean cuis. Ine exam
pies We present of tb. latter class OF wounds are,
therefore, more extraordinary than az from gun-
shots.
in the Dicti1nnalre McGicGie Sayiari mentions a
case in bch the left ventrcle of the bear and the
sep'um or wall which divided it from the night ven
tricle were pierced through. The man lived four or
FIVE Gays. a clot Of blood undoubtedly Closed the
opening at once, ard prevented hemorrhage In
another care, tue sht vtnircs wes pierced ana the
victim lived five days. Aud, in another sse, sword
was J0sfed through the right venircle the dia-
Iir8gm and liver, ana the man lived uutl the ninth
day. MorsDd exhibited this heart TO ms French
Academy Of Sciences in 1875. NJ, Lsveiie reports
in which the lett venrice was pierced vertically,
ard wound four or five lines in length was made.
This victim lived until the It'll dey. Dehors, RnOcius.
that weie not fatal until the 18th, 10th, l7h and
q Goth day.
The hesri may contract systematically At the mo-
ment the weapon iIcis the damage, and thus close
the wound until eliot Of blood forms and prevents
hemoIrhege. Ambrose Pare, the great French eur
gtOn eives a remarkable case evidently of t6i. kind,
aud reported by Schenk 10 p student OF lngoi-
s,sot Was certainly OF this character
Baron Lsrrey presented before The Academy q sOi-
der, the side of whose heart f'vo'sea by bel,
but the men recovered.
Bui, probably, the most extraordinary case Of gun
shot wound of the heart occurred Bt Ctncnns'I. IN
1885 d.. Simmons reported the G. se in The West
I'm JOrHaf of itd,c,ne and 81 the Physcai Sciences.
On The 2ls' of December 3 man named Mcguire was
shot in the chCst with p ball weighing "a 10 the
pounc. After berg wounded he chased bis aatago.
list with ac.vty for the os'sncs Of several rods aud
then became faint, and fell. The attention OF the
ply sicans vas directed to tae possible occurrence of
gdDgIene oi the 0ng snc the Ire 4'ment was designed
to prevent that iesult There sign, in the
symptoms of q wOund in ;he heart There WAS great
inirst there is in all gun-shot wounds intense pain
in the region Of the stomach, an accelerated pulse,
with srr1 jerk Oh the second day; bat there was
disturbance Of the respiration until the t0prth day
The DIED on the afternoon OF the nith DAY, or
ninety. seven hours after the wound. The exam
nation, after death, revealed remarkable state
Of things IL the keort, About two AID half
ipobes from its apex there was the appearance
Of heoitd r01lnd. II was not, OF course,
firm, for a blunt pointed probe passed through
this healing material into the right veufrcle of the
heart. The internal surface of the yentrcle exhibited
lacerhied wound. but trace Of the hsl could bs
fluid. The slrice was not wounded, ana great mys-
terry prevailed over the Lost trace OF the ball The
ascending vein which pours into the right aurcle all
the ascending blood from the lower divisions of the
body, anG tie right yen,riCe and aureie were hllsd
with WI az is called cOaguleted lymph The great
mystery the the entire loss Of all trace Of
the bal. IL was not in the vent.cle into which il had
certainly parsed, nor Wa. there any percepble wo1nt
Of tie auilcle TO mark lts passsge through H. Ia this
state OF things the large VEN Of which have spoken
cd and fear 81 AT M
taken out and placed in water. While they were un-
derf DING msceratioR, tie young who attend
ing to the usceratiOn thought there were evidences
OF bruise on what is called the trcaspd wave.
Thee is an oval opening between the right aurice
and veniricle which Is eoied by this valve The dis
covery thus maoe by maceratlon gave a clue 10 a
sesrch for the ball AZ il had evidently, by the pro-
ecie force 81 the powder, passed through tho ven
iricle aid into the right surcle through the oval
opening the search for II made in the large vein
OF which have spoken the vessel which CONVEYS
the blood from the lower members Of the body into
the right auricle. This vein Is the largest 10 the
human body. The two yeiIs from the right ana LEFT
exrenities unite together opposite tue fourth bone in
what is called the icius, and make this large venors
trunk. In The night Ole Of these two Veins the bsu
wSs found.
This therefore, is a much more extraordinary case
than pooles, for the cavities OF bis heart were not
wour oed, and the facts connected with il show how
erroneous the general nooLs are respecting wounds
OF the heart.
ped which came under the observation of physician
at the Virginia Springs. This ply scian fond of
hurting. snd on one occasion he killed buck that
was extraordinarily fat Ia opening the animal he
found the heart entirely transIed with elder stalk
which bad rUn through it. Ii was evident from 40.
pesrarces that this elder STICK hsd been in tue heart
for great length of time. Tie wounds which il had
made ID i's Deress hsd all healed perfectly snd no
trace Of Inflammation discoverable. There was
Sign Of disease in the substance Of the hear. 10
which the stalk wss fixed Tls animal hSd struck
himself, al time, violently sgsinst this elder
which trarsfxsd his heart ano Nature hsd cured him.