e with
pregnancy after injuries from horns of cattle. Corey speaks of a woman
of thirty-five, three months pregnant, weighing 135 pounds, who was
horned by a cow through the abdominal parietes near the hypogastric
region; she was lifted into the air, carried, and tossed on the ground
by the infuriated animal. There was a wound consisting of a ragged rent
from above the os pubis, extending obliquely to the left and upward,
through which protruded the great omentum, the descending and
transverse colon, most of the small intestines, as well as the pyloric
extremity of the stomach. The great omentum was mangled and comminuted,
and bore two lacerations of two inches each. The intestines and stomach
were not injured, but there was considerable extravasation of blood
into the abdominal cavity. The intestines were cleansed and an
unsuccessful attempt was made to replace them. The intestines remained
outside of the body for two hours, and the great omentum was carefully
spread out over the chest to prevent interference with the efforts to
return the intestines. The patient remained conscious and calm
throughout; finally deep anesthesia was produced by ether and
chloroform, three and a half hours after the accident, and in twenty
minutes the intestines were all replaced in the abdominal cavity. The
edges were pared, sutured, and the wound dressed. The woman was placed
in bed, on the right side, and morphin was administered. The sutures
were removed on the ninth day, and the wound had healed except at the
point of penetration. The woman was discharged twenty days after, and,
incredible to relate, was delivered of a well-developed, full-term
child just two hundred and two days from the time of the accident. Both
the mother and child did well.

Luce speaks of a pregnant woman who was horned in the lower part of the
abdomen by a cow, and had a subsequent protrusion of the intestines
through the wound. After some minor complications, the wound healed
fourteen weeks after the accident, and the woman was confined in
natural labor of a healthy, vigorous child. In this case no blood was
found on the cow's horn, and the clothing was not torn, so that the
wound must have been made by the side of the horn striking the greatly
distended abdomen.

Richard, quoted also by Tiffany, speaks of a woman, twenty-two, who
fell in a dark cellar with some empty bottles in her hand, suffering a
wound in the abdomen 2 inches above the navel on the left