side 8 cm.
long. Through this wound a mass of intestines, the size of a man's
head, protruded. Both the mother and the child made a good
convalescence. Harris cites the instance of a woman of thirty, a
multipara, six months pregnant, who was gored by a cow; her intestines
and omentum protruded through the rip and the uterus was bruised. There
was rapid recovery and delivery at term. Wetmore of Illinois saw a
woman who in the summer of 1860, when about six months pregnant, was
gored by a cow, and the large intestine and the omentum protruded
through the wound. Three hours after the injury she was found swathed
in rags wet with a compound solution of whiskey and camphor, with a
decoction of tobacco. The intestines were cold to the touch and dirty,
but were washed and replaced. The abdomen was sewed up with a darning
needle and black linen thread; the woman recovered and bore a healthy
child at the full maturity of her gestation. Crowdace speaks of a
female pauper, six months pregnant, who was attacked by a buffalo, and
suffered a wound about 1 1/2 inch long and 1/2 inch wide just above the
umbilicus. Through this small opening 19 inches of intestine protruded.
The woman recovered, and the fetal heart-beats could be readily
auscultated.

Major accidents in pregnant women are often followed by the happiest
results. There seems to be no limit to what the pregnant uterus can
successfully endure. Tiffany, who has collected some statistics on this
subject, as well as on operations successfully performed during
pregnancy, which will be considered later, quotes the account of a
woman of twenty-seven, eight months pregnant, who was almost buried
under a clay wall. She received terrible wounds about the head, 32
sutures being used in this location alone. Subsequently she was
confined, easily bore a perfectly normal female child, and both did
well. Sibois describes the case of a woman weighing 190 pounds, who
fell on her head from the top of a wall from 10 to 12 feet high. For
several hours she exhibited symptoms of fracture of the base of the
skull, and the case was so diagnosed; fourteen hours after the accident
she was perfectly conscious and suffered terrible pain about the head,
neck, and shoulders. Two days later an ovum of about twenty days was
expelled, and seven months after she was delivered of a healthy boy
weighing 10 1/2 pounds. She had therefore lost after the accident
one-half of a double conception.

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