At 6 P.M., November 13th, the pains
of labor commenced. Three hours later she was having great
dyspnea with each pain. This soon assumed a fatal aspect and the
midwife attempted to resuscitate the patient by artificial
respiration, but failed in her efforts, and then she turned her
attention to the fetuses, and, one by one, she extracted them in
the short space of five minutes; the last one was born twelve
minutes after the mother's death. They all lived (the first two
being females), and they weighed from 4 1/4 to 6 1/2 pounds.
Considerable attention has been directed to the advisability of
accelerated and forced labor in the dying, in order that the
child may be saved. Belluzzi has presented several papers on this
subject. Csurgay of Budapest mentions saving the child by forced
labor in the death agonies of the mother. Devilliers considers
this question from both the obstetric and medicolegal points of
view. Hyneaux mentions forcible accouchement practised on both
the dead and the dying. Rogowicz advocates artificial delivery by
the natural channel in place of Cesarian section in cases of
pending or recent death, and Thevenot discussed this question at
length at the International Medico-Legal Congress in 1878.
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