Prowzowsky cites the instance of a
patient in the eighth month of her first pregnancy who was
wounded by many pieces of lead pipe fired from a gun but a few
feet distant. Neither the patient nor the child suffered
materially from the accident, and gestation proceeded; the child
died on the fourth day after birth without apparent cause. Milner
records an instance of remarkable tolerance of injury in a
pregnant woman. During her six months of pregnancy the patient
was accidentally shot through the abdominal cavity and lower part
of the thorax. The missile penetrated the central tendon of the
diaphragm and lodged in the lung. The injury was limited by
localized pneumonia and peritonitis, and the wound was drained
through the lung by free expectoration. Recovery ensued, the
patient giving birth to a healthy child sixteen weeks later.
Belin mentions a stab-wound in a pregnant woman from which a
considerable portion of the epiploon protruded. Sloughing ensued,
but the patient made a good recovery, gestation not being
interrupted. Fancon describes the case of a woman who had an
injury to the knee requiring drainage. She was attacked by
erysipelas, which spread over the whole body with the exception
of the head and neck; yet her pregnancy was uninterrupted and
recovery ensued.
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