She ate regularly, but every three days she
experienced pain in the umbilicus and much intestinal irritation,
followed by severe vomiting of stercoraceous matter; the pains
then ceased and she cleansed her mouth with aromatic washes,
remaining well until the following third day. Some of the urine
was evacuated by the mammae. The examiners displayed much desire
to see her after puberty to note the disposition of the menstrual
flow, but no further observation of her case can be found.
Fournier narrates that he was called by three students, who had
been trying to deliver a woman for five days. He found a
well-constituted woman of twenty-two in horrible agony, who they
said had not had a passage of the bowels for eight days, so he
prescribed an enema. The student who was directed to give the
enema found to his surprise that there was no anus, but by
putting his finger in the vagina he could discern the floating
end of the rectum, which was full of feces. There was an opening
in this suspended rectum about the size of an undistended anus.
Lavage was practiced by a cannula introduced through the opening,
and a great number of cherry stones agglutinated with feces
followed the water, and labor was soon terminated.
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