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The child was born seven days later, with its skull crushed by the cow's horn.
The horn had entered the vagina, carrying the clothing with it. There are some marvelous cases of recovery and noninterference with pregnancy after injuries from horns of cattle.
Corey speaks of a woman of thirty-five, three months pregnant, weighing 135 pounds, who was horned by a cow through the abdominal parietes near the hypogastric region; she was lifted into the air, carried, and tossed on the ground by the infuriated animal.
There was a wound consisting of a ragged rent from above the os pubis, extending obliquely to the left and upward, through which protruded the great omentum, the descending and transverse colon, most of the small intestines, as well as the pyloric extremity of the stomach.
The great omentum was mangled and comminuted, and bore two lacerations of two inches each.
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