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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER XIII
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Mursinna describes a hydrocele which measured 27 inches in its longest and 17 in its transverse axis.
Tedford gives a curious case of separation of the ovary in a woman of twenty-eight.

After suffering from invagination of the bowel and inflammation of the ovarian tissue, an ovary was discharged through an opening in the sigmoid flexure, and thence expelled from the anus.
In discussing injuries of the vagina, the first to be mentioned will be a remarkable case reported by Curran.

The subject was an Irish girl of twenty.

While carrying a bundle of clothes that prevented her from seeing objects in front of her, she started to pass over a stile, just opposite to which a goat was lying.

The woman wore no underclothing, and in the ascent her body was partially exposed, and, while in this enforced attitude, the goat, frightened by her approach, suddenly started up, and in so doing thrust his horn forcibly into her anus and about two or three inches up her rectum.


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