They allowed the case to go twenty-three days,
until pains similar to those of labor occurred, and then decided
on celiotomy. The operation was almost bloodless, and a living
child weighing eight pounds was extracted. Unfortunately, the
mother succumbed after ninety hours, and in a month the
intrauterine child died from inanition, but the child of
extrauterine gestation thrived. Sales gives the case of a negress
of twenty-two, who said that she had been "tricked by a negro,"
and had a large snake in the abdomen, and could distinctly feel
its movements. She stoutly denied any intercourse. It was decided
to open the abdominal cyst; the incision was followed by a gush
of blood and a placenta came into view, which was extracted with
a living child. To the astonishment of the operators the uterus
was distended, and it was decided to open it, when another living
child was seen and extracted. The cyst and the uterus were
cleansed of all clots and the wound closed. The mother died of
septicemia, but the children both lived and were doing well six
weeks after the operation. A curious case was seen in 1814 of a
woman who at her fifth gestation suffered abdominal uneasiness at
the third month, and this became intolerable at the ninth month.
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