Taylor quotes the description of a
child who died from an injury to the head caused by dropping from
the mother at an unexpected time, while she was in the erect
position; he also speaks of a parallel case on record.
Unusual Places of Birth.--Besides those mentioned, the other
awkward positions in which a child may be born are so numerous
and diversified that mention of only a few can be made here.
Colton tells of a painless labor in an Irish girl of
twenty-three, who felt a desire to urinate, and while seated on
the chamber dropped a child. She never felt a labor-pain, and
twelve days afterward rode 20 miles over a rough road to go to
her baby's funeral. Leonhard describes the case of a mother of
thirty-seven, who had borne six children alive, who was pregnant
for the tenth time, and who had miscalculated her pregnancy.
During pregnancy she had an attack of small-pox and suffered all
through pregnancy with constipation. She had taken a laxative,
and when returning to bed from stool was surprised to find
herself attached to the stool by a band. The child in the vessel
began to cry and was separated from the woman, who returned to
bed and suddenly died one-half hour later. The mother was
entirely unconscious of the delivery.
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