The ball entered the abdomen two inches above the crest of the
right ilium, a little to the rear of the anterior superior
spinous process, and took a downward and forward course. A little
shock was felt but no serious symptoms followed. In forty hours
there was delivery of a dead child with a bullet in its abdomen.
Labor was normal and the internal recovery complete. Von Chelius,
quoting the younger Naegele, gives a remarkable instance of a
young peasant of thirty-five, the mother of four children,
pregnant with the fifth child, who was struck on the belly
violently by a blow from a wagon pole. She was thrown down, and
felt a tearing pain which caused her to faint. It was found that
the womb had been ruptured and the child killed, for in several
days it was delivered in a putrid mass, partly through the
natural passage and partly through an abscess opening in the
abdominal wall. The woman made a good recovery. A curious
accident of pregnancy is that of a woman of thirty-eight,
advanced eight months in her ninth pregnancy, who after eating a
hearty meal was seized by a violent pain in the region of the
stomach and soon afterward with convulsions, supposed to have
been puerperal. She died in a few hours, and at the autopsy it
was found that labor had not begun, but that the pregnancy had
caused a laceration of the spleen, from which had escaped four or
five pints of blood.
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