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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XL, Issue 1, 4 January 1908, Page 27

That a bow thrown from his bicycle shall be able to walk to his l home two miles away, after having fatally fractured his skull, bounds'almost’incredible, but stranger feats of endurance are on record. A. Woodham Ferris, brickmaker, having inflicted a four-inch wound in his throat with a razor, calmly sat down and smoked a cigar what time the police arrived to carry him to the hospital; while a Northampton groom survived for fourteen days a fall in which his neck was broken. It is not now uncommon for a wounded heart to be stitched. Before this operation bad been attempted a New York woman lived for a fortnight with a large bullet in her heart. It had penetrated the breast-bone, punctured the pleura so that air wag admitted, and traversed the heart for an inch and a half. .Yet not until after fourteen and a half days had expired did she relinquish her hold on life.