At about ten
o'clock in the morning, after a partially unconscious night,
there was a sudden gush of blood and water from the vagina; she
screamed and lapsed into an unconscious condition. At 10.35 the
face presented, soon followed by the body, after which came a
great flow of blood, welling out in several waves. The child was
a male middle-sized, and was some little time in making himself
heard. Only by degrees did the woman's consciousness return. She
felt weary and inclined to sleep, but soon after she awoke and
was much surprised to know what had happened. She had seven or
eight pains in all. Schultze speaks of a woman who, arriving at
the period for delivery, went into an extraordinary state of
somnolence, and in this condition on the third day bore a living
male child.
Berthier in 1859 observed a case of melancholia with delirium
which continued through pregnancy. The woman was apparently
unconscious of her condition and was delivered without pain.
Cripps mentions a case in which there was absence of pain in
parturition. Depaul mentions a woman who fell in a public street
and was delivered of a living child during a syncope which lasted
four hours. Epley reports painless labor in a patient with
paraplegia.
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