Major accidents in pregnant women are often followed by the
happiest results. There seems to be no limit to what the pregnant
uterus can successfully endure. Tiffany, who has collected some
statistics on this subject, as well as on operations successfully
performed during pregnancy, which will be considered later,
quotes the account of a woman of twenty-seven, eight months
pregnant, who was almost buried under a clay wall. She received
terrible wounds about the head, 32 sutures being used in this
location alone. Subsequently she was confined, easily bore a
perfectly normal female child, and both did well. Sibois
describes the case of a woman weighing 190 pounds, who fell on
her head from the top of a wall from 10 to 12 feet high. For
several hours she exhibited symptoms of fracture of the base of
the skull, and the case was so diagnosed; fourteen hours after
the accident she was perfectly conscious and suffered terrible
pain about the head, neck, and shoulders. Two days later an ovum
of about twenty days was expelled, and seven months after she was
delivered of a healthy boy weighing 10 1/2 pounds. She had
therefore lost after the accident one-half of a double
conception.
Verrier has collected the results of traumatism during pregnancy,
and summarizes 61 cases.
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