The funis was lacerated
transversely four inches from the umbilicus. Both mother and
child progressed favorably. Doubtless the intense cold had so
contracted the blood-vessels as to prevent fatal hemorrhage to
mother and child. This case has a legal bearing in the
supposition that the child had been killed in the fall.
There is reported the case of a woman in Wales, who, while
walking with her husband, was suddenly seized with pains, and
would have been delivered by the wayside but for the timely help
of Madame Patti, the celebrated diva, who was driving by, and who
took the woman in her carriage to her palatial residence close
by. It was to be christened in a few days with an appropriate
name in remembrance of the occasion. Coleman met an instance in a
married woman, who without the slightest warning was delivered of
a child while standing near a window in her bedroom. The child
fell to the floor and ruptured the cord about one inch from the
umbilicus, but with speedy attention the happiest results were
attained. Twitchell has an example in the case of a young woman
of seventeen, who was suddenly delivered of a child while ironing
some clothes. The cord in this case was also ruptured, but the
child sustained no injury.
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