There is mentioned, as
from the Leicester Assizes, the trial of George Baggerly for
execution of a villainous design on his wife. In jealousy he "had
sewed up her private parts." Recently, before the New York
Academy of Medicine, Collier reported a case of pregnancy in a
woman presenting nympha-infibulation. The patient sought the
physician's advice in the summer of 1894, while suffering from
uterine disease, and being five weeks pregnant. She was a German
woman of twenty-eight, had been married several years, and was
the mother of several children. Collier examined her and observed
two holes in the nymphae. When he asked her concerning these, she
reluctantly told him that she had been compelled by her husband
to wear a lock in this region. Her mother, prior to their
marriage, sent her over to the care of her future husband (he
having left Germany some months before). On her arrival he
perforated the labia minora, causing her to be ill several weeks;
after she had sufficiently recovered he put on a padlock, and for
many years he had practiced the habit of locking her up after
each intercourse. Strange to relate, no physician, except
Collier, had ever inquired about the openings. In this connection
the celebrated Harvey mentions a mare with infibulated genitals,
but these did not prevent successful labor.
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