long. Through this wound a mass of intestines,
the size of a man's head, protruded. Both the mother and the
child made a good convalescence. Harris cites the instance of a
woman of thirty, a multipara, six months pregnant, who was gored
by a cow; her intestines and omentum protruded through the rip
and the uterus was bruised. There was rapid recovery and delivery
at term. Wetmore of Illinois saw a woman who in the summer of
1860, when about six months pregnant, was gored by a cow, and the
large intestine and the omentum protruded through the wound.
Three hours after the injury she was found swathed in rags wet
with a compound solution of whiskey and camphor, with a decoction
of tobacco. The intestines were cold to the touch and dirty, but
were washed and replaced. The abdomen was sewed up with a darning
needle and black linen thread; the woman recovered and bore a
healthy child at the full maturity of her gestation. Crowdace
speaks of a female pauper, six months pregnant, who was attacked
by a buffalo, and suffered a wound about 1 1/2 inch long and 1/2
inch wide just above the umbilicus. Through this small opening 19
inches of intestine protruded. The woman recovered, and the fetal
heart-beats could be readily auscultated.
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