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wound in the uterus was Y-shaped. The mother died in one and a
half hours from the reception of her injuries, but the child was
uninjured.
Scott mentions the instance of a woman thirty-four years old who
was gored by an infuriated ox while in the ninth month of her
eighth pregnancy. The horn entered at the anterior superior
spinous process of the ilium, involving the parietes and the
uterus. The child was extruded through the wound about half an
hour after the occurrence of the accident. The cord was cut and
the child survived and thrived, though the mother soon died.
Stalpart tells the almost incredible story of a soldier's wife
who went to obtain water from a stream and was cut in two by a
cannonball while stooping over. A passing soldier observed
something to move in the water, which, on investigation, he found
to be a living child in its membranes. It was christened by order
of one Cordua and lived for some time after.
Postmortem Cesarean Section.--The possibility of delivering a
child by Cesarean section after the death of the mother has been
known for a long time to the students of medicine. In the olden
times there were laws making compulsory the opening of the dead
bodies of pregnant women shortly after death.
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