The patient remained conscious and calm throughout; finally deep
anesthesia was produced by ether and chloroform, three and a half
hours after the accident, and in twenty minutes the intestines
were all replaced in the abdominal cavity. The edges were pared,
sutured, and the wound dressed. The woman was placed in bed, on
the right side, and morphin was administered. The sutures were
removed on the ninth day, and the wound had healed except at the
point of penetration. The woman was discharged twenty days after,
and, incredible to relate, was delivered of a well-developed,
full-term child just two hundred and two days from the time of
the accident. Both the mother and child did well.
Luce speaks of a pregnant woman who was horned in the lower part
of the abdomen by a cow, and had a subsequent protrusion of the
intestines through the wound. After some minor complications, the
wound healed fourteen weeks after the accident, and the woman was
confined in natural labor of a healthy, vigorous child. In this
case no blood was found on the cow's horn, and the clothing was
not torn, so that the wound must have been made by the side of
the horn striking the greatly distended abdomen.
Richard, quoted also by Tiffany, speaks of a woman, twenty-two,
who fell in a dark cellar with some empty bottles in her hand,
suffering a wound in the abdomen 2 inches above the navel on the
left side 8 cm.
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