Hirst of Philadelphia has remarked that brides have been found on their marital beds completely covered with blood, and that the hemorrhage may have been so profuse as to soak through the bed and fall on the floor.

Lacerations of the urethra from urethral coitus in instances of vaginal atresia or imperforate hymen may also excite serious hemorrhage.
Foreign Bodies in the Vagina .-- The elasticity of the vagina allows the presence in this passage of the most voluminous foreign bodies.

When we consider the passage of a fetal head through the vagina the ordinary foreign bodies, none of which ever approximate this size, seem quite reasonable.

Goblets, hair-pins, needles, bottles, beer glasses, compasses, bobbins, pessaries, and many other articles have been found in the vagina.

It is quite possible for a phosphatic incrustation to be found about a foreign body tolerated in this location for some time.
Hubbauer speaks of a young girl of nineteen in whose vagina there was a glass fixed by incrustations which held it solidly in place.