In a similar
instances a wagon weighing 1200 pounds passed over a child of
five, with no apparent injury other than a bruise near the ear
made by the wheel.
Infant-vitality is sometimes quite remarkable, a newly-born child
sometimes surviving extreme exposure and major injuries. There
was a remarkable instance of this kind brought to light in the
Mullings vs. Mullings divorce-case, recorded in The Lancet. It
appeared that Mrs. Mullings, a few hours after her confinement at
Torquay, packed her newly-born infant boy in a portmanteau, and
started for London. She had telegraphed Dr. J. S. Tulloch to meet
her at Paddington, where he found his patient apparently in good
condition, and not weak, as he expected in a woman shortly to be
confined. On the way to her apartments, which had been provided
by Dr. Tulloch, Mrs. Mullings remarked to the Doctor that she had
already borne her child. Dr. Tulloch was greatly surprised, and
immediately inquired what she had done with the baby. She replied
that it was in a box on top of the cab. When the box was opened
the child was found alive. The Lancet comments on the remarkable
fact that, shortly after confinement, a woman can travel six or
seven hours in a railroad train, and her newly-born babe conveyed
the same distance in a portmanteau, without apparent injury, and
without attracting attention.
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