After examination a piece of reed three cm. long was extracted
from the uterus, its external face being incrusted with hard
calcareous material. Meschede of Schwetz, Germany, mentions death
from a hair-pin in the uterine cavity.
Crouzit was called to see a young girl who had attempted criminal
abortion by a darning-needle. When he arrived a fetus of about
three months had already been expelled, and had been wounded by
the instrument. It was impossible to remove the needle, and the
placenta was not expelled for two days. Eleven days afterward the
girl commenced to have pains in the inguinal region, and by the
thirty-fifth day an elevation was formed, and the pains increased
in violence. On the seventy-ninth day a needle six inches long
was expelled from the swelling in the groin, and the patient
recovered. Lisfranc extracted from the uterus of a woman who
supposed herself to be pregnant at the third month, a fragment of
a large gum-elastic sound which during illicit maneuvers had
broken off within five cm. of its extremity, and penetrated the
organ. Lisfranc found there was not the slightest sign of
pregnancy, despite the woman's belief that she was with child.
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MISCELLANEOUS SURGICAL ANOMALIES.
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