The London Medical and Physical
Journal, in one of its early numbers, contained an account of an
abdominal fetus penetrating the walls of the bladder and being
extracted from the walls of the hypogastrium; but Sennertus gives
a case which far eclipses this, both mother and fetus surviving.
He says that in this case the woman, while pregnant, received a
blow on the lower part of her body, in consequence of which a
small tumor appeared shortly after the accident. It so happened
in this case that the peritoneum was extremely dilatable, and the
uterus, with the child inside, made its way into the peritoneal
sac. In his presence an incision was made and the fetus taken out
alive. Jessop gives an example of extrauterine gestation in a
woman of twenty-six, who had previously had normal delivery. In
this case an incision was made and a fetus of about eight months'
growth was found lying loose in the abdominal cavity in the midst
of the intestines. Both the mother and child were saved. This is
a very rare result. Campbell, in his celebrated monograph, in a
total of 51 operations had only seen recorded the accounts of two
children saved, and one of these was too marvelous to believe.
Lawson Tait reports a case in which he saved the child, but lost
the mother on the fourth day.
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