The
woman is then kept in bed on her back. This operation is best
carried out immediately before or immediately after the menstrual
epoch, and if not successful at the first attempt should be
repeated for several months. At the present day artificial
impregnation in pisciculture is extensively used with great
success.
{footnote} The following extraordinary incident of accidental
impregnation, quoted from the American Medical Weekly by the
Lancet, is given in brief, not because it bears any semblance of
possibility, but as a curious example from the realms of
imagination in medicine.
L. G. Capers of Vicksburg, Miss., relates an incident during the
late Civil War, as follows: A matron and her two daughters, aged
fifteen and seventeen years, filled with the enthusiasm of
patriotism, stood ready to minister to the wounds of their
countrymen in their fine residence near the scene of the battle
of R----, May 12, 1863, between a portion of Grant's army and
some Confederates. During the fray a gallant and noble young
friend of the narrator staggered and fell to the earth; at the
same time a piercing cry was heard in the house near by.
Examination of the wounded soldier showed that a bullet had
passed through the scrotum and carried away the left testicle.
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