Striking the ribs near the left nipple it fractured three, and
made its exit. The stake was three inches in circumference, and
27 inches of its length passed into the body, six or seven inches
emerging from the chest. This girl recovered so rapidly that she
was able to attend school six weeks afterward. In a case reported
by Bailey a middle-aged woman, while sliding down a hay-stack,
struck directly upon a pitchfork handle which entered the vagina;
the whole weight of the woman was successfully maintained by the
cellular tissue of the uterovaginal culdesac.
Minot speaks of the passage of one prong of a pitchfork through
the body of a man of twenty-one, from the perineum to the
umbilicus; the man recovered.
Hamilton reports a case of laceration of the perineum with
penetration of the pelvic cavity to the depth of ten inches by a
stick 3/4 inch thick. Prowse mentions the history of a case of
impalement in a man of thirty-four, who, coming down a hay-stack,
alighted on the handle of a pitchfork which struck him in the
middle of the scrotum, and passed up between the skin and fascia
to the 10th rib. Recovery was prompt.
There are several cases on record in which extensive wounds of
the abdominal parietes with protrusion and injury to the
intestine have not been followed by death.
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