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.