Westphal mentions a
delivery in a water-closet.
Brown speaks of a woman of twenty-six who had a call of nature
while in bed, and while sitting up she gave birth to a fine,
full-grown child, which, falling on the floor, ruptured the
funis. She took her child, lay down with it for some time, and
feeling easier, hailed a cab, drove to a hospital with the child
in her arms, and wanted to walk upstairs. She was put to bed and
delivered of the placenta, there being but little hemorrhage from
the cord; both she and her child made speedy recoveries. Thebault
reports an instance of delivery in the erect position, with
rupture of the funis at the placenta. There was recently a rumor,
probably a newspaper fabrication, that a woman while at stool in
a railway car gave birth to a child which was found alive on the
track afterward.
There is a curious instance on record in which a child was born
in a hip-bath and narrowly escaped drowning. The mother was a
European woman aged forty, who had borne two children, the last
nine years before. She was supposed to have dropsy of the
abdomen, and among other treatments was the use of a speculum and
caustic applications for inflammation of the womb. The escape of
watery fluid for two days was considered evidence of the rupture
of an ovarian cyst.
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