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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER II
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In this case no blood was found on the cow's horn, and the clothing was not torn, so that the wound must have been made by the side of the horn striking the greatly distended abdomen.
Richard, quoted also by Tiffany, speaks of a woman, twenty-two, who fell in a dark cellar with some empty bottles in her hand, suffering a wound in the abdomen 2 inches above the navel on the left side 8 cm.
long.

Through this wound a mass of intestines, the size of a man's head, protruded.

Both the mother and the child made a good convalescence.

Harris cites the instance of a woman of thirty, a multipara, six months pregnant, who was gored by a cow; her intestines and omentum protruded through the rip and the uterus was bruised.

There was rapid recovery and delivery at term.


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