She was delivered of a normal living child, with the exception
that the helix of the left ear was pushed anteriorly, and had, in
its middle, a deep incision, which also traversed the antihelix
and the tragus, and continued over the cheek toward the nose,
where it terminated. The external auditory meatus was
obliterated. Gurlt speaks of a woman, seven months pregnant, who
fell from the top of a ladder, subsequently losing some blood and
water from the vagina. She had also persistent pains in the
belly, but there was no deterioration of general health. At her
confinement, which was normal, a strong boy was born, wanting the
arm below the middle, at which point a white bone protruded. The
wound healed and the separated arm came away after birth.
Wainwright relates the instance of a woman of forty, who when six
months pregnant was run over by railway cars. After a double
amputation of the legs she miscarried and made a good recovery.
Neugebauer reported the history of a case of a woman who, while
near her term of pregnancy, committed suicide by jumping from a
window. She ruptured her uterus, and a dead child with a fracture
of the parietal bone was found in the abdominal cavity. Staples
speaks of a Swede of twenty-eight, of Minnesota, who was
accidentally shot by a young man riding by her side in a wagon.
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