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CHAPTER XIII
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Outside of obstetric practice the injury is quite a rare one.
There is a case of death from a ruptured clitoris reported by Gutteridge.

The woman was kicked while in a stooping position and succumbed to a profuse hemorrhage, estimated to be between three and four pounds, and proceeding from a rupture of the clitoris.
Discharge of Vaginal Parietes .-- Longhi describes the case of a woman of twenty-seven, an epileptic, with metritis and copious catamenia twice a month.

She was immoderately addicted to drink and sexual indulgence, and in February, 1835, her menses ceased.

On May 8th she was admitted to the hospital with a severe epileptic convulsion, and until the 18th remained in a febrile condition, with abdominal tenderness, etc.

On the 21st, while straining as if to discharge the contents of the rectum, she felt a voluminous body pass through the vagina, and fancied it was the expected fetus.


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