The mother and the female
child did well. Purcell reports death in a pregnant woman from
contused wound of the vulva. Morland relates an instance of a
woman in the fifth month of her second pregnancy, who fell on the
roof of a woodshed by slipping from one of the steps by which she
ascended to the roof, in the act of hanging out some clothes to
dry. She suffered a wound on the internal surface of the left
nympha 1 1/2 inch long and 1/2 inch deep. She had lost about
three quarts of blood, and had applied ashes to the vagina to
stop the bleeding. She made a recovery by the twelfth day, and
the fetal sounds were plainly audible. Cullingworth speaks of a
woman who, during a quarrel with her husband, was pushed away and
fell between two chairs, knocking one of them over, and causing a
trivial wound one inch long in the vagina, close to the entrance.
She screamed, there was a gush of blood, and she soon died. The
uterus contained a fetus three or four months old, with the
membranes intact, the maternal death being due to the varicosity
of the pregnant pudenda, the slight injury being sufficient to
produce fatal hemorrhage. Carhart describes the case of a
pregnant woman, who, while in the stooping position, milking a
cow, was impaled through the vagina by another cow.
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