Neither the patient nor the child suffered materially from the accident, and gestation proceeded; the child died on the fourth day after birth without apparent cause.

Milner records an instance of remarkable tolerance of injury in a pregnant woman.

During her six months of pregnancy the patient was accidentally shot through the abdominal cavity and lower part of the thorax.

The missile penetrated the central tendon of the diaphragm and lodged in the lung.

The injury was limited by localized pneumonia and peritonitis, and the wound was drained through the lung by free expectoration.