The child was
born seven days later, with its skull crushed by the cow's horn.
The horn had entered the vagina, carrying the clothing with it.
There are some marvelous cases of recovery and noninterference
with pregnancy after injuries from horns of cattle. Corey speaks
of a woman of thirty-five, three months pregnant, weighing 135
pounds, who was horned by a cow through the abdominal parietes
near the hypogastric region; she was lifted into the air,
carried, and tossed on the ground by the infuriated animal. There
was a wound consisting of a ragged rent from above the os pubis,
extending obliquely to the left and upward, through which
protruded the great omentum, the descending and transverse colon,
most of the small intestines, as well as the pyloric extremity of
the stomach. The great omentum was mangled and comminuted, and
bore two lacerations of two inches each. The intestines and
stomach were not injured, but there was considerable
extravasation of blood into the abdominal cavity. The intestines
were cleansed and an unsuccessful attempt was made to replace
them. The intestines remained outside of the body for two hours,
and the great omentum was carefully spread out over the chest to
prevent interference with the efforts to return the intestines.
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