She lay all night
unconscious, and was discovered the next morning with her hair
and clothes and the floor on which she lay drenched with blood.
The ambulance was summoned to take her to the morgue, but on the
arrival of the police it was seen that feeble signs of life still
existed. On admission to the hospital she was semi-comatose,
almost pulseless, cold, and exhibiting all the signs of extreme
hemorrhage and shock. Her head was cleaned up, but her condition
would not permit of any other treatment than a
corrosive-sublimate compress and a bandage of Scultetus. She was
taken to the hospital ward, where warmth and stimulants were
applied, after which she completely reacted. She progressed so
well that it was not deemed advisable to remove the head-bandage
until the fourth day, when it was seen that the wounds had almost
entirely healed and suppuration was virtually absent. The patient
rapidly and completely recovered, and her neighbors, on her
return home, could hardly believe that she was the same woman
whom, a few days before, they were preparing to take to the
morgue.
A serious injury, which is not at all infrequent, is that caused
by diving into shallow water, or into a bath from which water has
been withdrawn.
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