In his drunken frenzy this man had thrust his hand into the
vagina, and through the junction of its posterior wall with the
uterus, up into the abdominal cavity, and grasped the uterus,
trying to drag it out. Outside of obstetric practice the injury
is quite a rare one.
There is a case of death from a ruptured clitoris reported by
Gutteridge. The woman was kicked while in a stooping position and
succumbed to a profuse hemorrhage, estimated to be between three
and four pounds, and proceeding from a rupture of the clitoris.
Discharge of Vaginal Parietes.--Longhi describes the case of a
woman of twenty-seven, an epileptic, with metritis and copious
catamenia twice a month. She was immoderately addicted to drink
and sexual indulgence, and in February, 1835, her menses ceased.
On May 8th she was admitted to the hospital with a severe
epileptic convulsion, and until the 18th remained in a febrile
condition, with abdominal tenderness, etc. On the 21st, while
straining as if to discharge the contents of the rectum, she felt
a voluminous body pass through the vagina, and fancied it was the
expected fetus. After washing this mass it was found to be a
portion of the vaginal parietes and the fleshy body of the neck
of the uterus.
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