Fancon also speaks of a girl of nineteen,
frightened by her lover, who threatened to stab her, who jumped
from a second-story window. For three days after the fall she had
a slight bloody flow from the vulva. Although she was six months
pregnant there was no interruption of the normal course of
gestation.
Bancroft speaks of a woman who, being mistaken for a burglar, was
shot by her husband with a 44-caliber bullet. The missile entered
the second and third ribs an inch from the sternum, passed
through the right lung, and escaped at the inferior angle of the
scapula, about three inches below the spine; after leaving her
body it went through a pine door. She suffered much hemorrhage
and shock, but made a fair recovery at the end of four weeks,
though pregnant with her first child at the seventh month. At
full term she was delivered by foot-presentation of a healthy
boy. The mother at the time of report was healthy and free from
cough, and was nursing her babe, which was strong and bright.
All the cases do not have as happy an issue as most of the
foregoing ones, though in some the results are not so bad as
might be expected. A German female, thirty-six, while in the
sixth month of pregnancy, fell and struck her abdomen on a tub.
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