Through this small opening 19 inches of intestine protruded.
The woman recovered, and the fetal heart-beats could be readily auscultated.
Major accidents in pregnant women are often followed by the happiest results.

There seems to be no limit to what the pregnant uterus can successfully endure.

Tiffany, who has collected some statistics on this subject, as well as on operations successfully performed during pregnancy, which will be considered later, quotes the account of a woman of twenty-seven, eight months pregnant, who was almost buried under a clay wall.

She received terrible wounds about the head, 32 sutures being used in this location alone.

Subsequently she was confined, easily bore a perfectly normal female child, and both did well.