The external labia were divided, the left crus of the clitoris separated, the nymphae lacerated, and the vaginal wall penetrated to the extent of five inches; the patient recovered by the fourth week.
Homans reports recovery from extensive wounds acquired by a negress who fell from a roof, striking astride an upright barrel.

There was a wound of the perineum, and penetration of the posterior wall of the vagina, with complete separation of the soft parts from the symphysis pubis, and extrusion of the bladder.
Howe reports a case of impalement with recovery in a girl of fifteen who slid down a hay-stack, striking a hay-hook which penetrated her perineum and passed into her body, emerging two inches below the umbilicus and one inch to the right of the median line.
Injuries of the vagina may be so extensive as to allow protrusion of the intestines, and some horrible cases of this nature are recorded.

In The Lancet for 1873 there is reported a murder or suicide of this description.

The woman was found with a wound in the vagina, through which the intestines, with clean-cut ends, protruded.

Over 7 1/2 feet of the intestines had been cut off in three pieces.