She directed the servant to look
below the bed-clothes, and then a female child was discovered.
Her other labors had extended over six hours, and were preceded
by all the signs distinctive of childbirth, which fact attaches
additional interest to the case. The ultimate fate of the child
is not mentioned. Smith quotes Wilson, who said he was called to
see a woman who was delivered without pain while walking about
the house. He found the child on the floor with its umbilical
cord torn across.
Langston mentions the case of a woman, twenty-three, who, between
4 and 5 A.M., felt griping pains in the abdomen. Knowing her
condition she suspected labor, and determined to go to a friend's
house where she could be confined in safety. She had a distance
of about 600 yards to go, and when she was about half way she was
delivered in an upright position of a child, which fell on the
pavement and ruptured its funis in the fall. Shortly after, the
placenta was expelled, and she proceeded on her journey, carrying
the child in her arms. At 5.50 the physician saw the woman in
bed, looking well and free from pain, but complaining of being
cold. The child, which was her first, was healthy, well
nourished, and normal, with the exception of a slight ecchymosis
of the parietal bone on the left side.
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