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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER II
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Recovery ensued, the patient giving birth to a healthy child sixteen weeks later.

Belin mentions a stab-wound in a pregnant woman from which a considerable portion of the epiploon protruded.

Sloughing ensued, but the patient made a good recovery, gestation not being interrupted.

Fancon describes the case of a woman who had an injury to the knee requiring drainage.

She was attacked by erysipelas, which spread over the whole body with the exception of the head and neck; yet her pregnancy was uninterrupted and recovery ensued.
Fancon also speaks of a girl of nineteen, frightened by her lover, who threatened to stab her, who jumped from a second-story window.


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