The hemorrhage immediately ceased and health returned.
There is a record of a woman of twenty-eight who was suddenly
surprised by some one entering her chamber at the moment she was
introducing a cedar pencil into her vagina. With the purpose of
covering up her act and dissembling the woman sat down, and the
shank of the wood was pushed through the posterior wall of the
vagina into the peritoneal cavity. The intestine was, without
doubt, pierced in two of its curves, which was demonstrated later
by an autopsy. A plastic exudation had evidently agglutinated the
intestine at the points of penetration, and prevented an
immediate fatal issue. Erichsen practiced extraction eight months
after the accident, and a pencil 5 1/2 inches long, having a
strong fecal odor, was brought out. The patient died the fourth
day after the operation, from peritonitis, and an autopsy showed
the perforation and agglutination of the two intestinal
curvatures. Getchell relates the description of a calculus in the
vagina, formed about a hair-pin as a nucleus. It is reported that
a country girl came to the Hotel-Dieu to consult Dupoytren, and
stated that several years before she had been violated by some
soldiers, who had introduced an unknown foreign body into her
vagina, which she never could extract.
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