[Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by George M. Gould]@TWC D-Link bookAnomalies and Curiosities of Medicine CHAPTER II 150/181
For three days after the fall she had a slight bloody flow from the vulva. Although she was six months pregnant there was no interruption of the normal course of gestation. Bancroft speaks of a woman who, being mistaken for a burglar, was shot by her husband with a 44-caliber bullet.
The missile entered the second and third ribs an inch from the sternum, passed through the right lung, and escaped at the inferior angle of the scapula, about three inches below the spine; after leaving her body it went through a pine door. She suffered much hemorrhage and shock, but made a fair recovery at the end of four weeks, though pregnant with her first child at the seventh month.
At full term she was delivered by foot-presentation of a healthy boy.
The mother at the time of report was healthy and free from cough, and was nursing her babe, which was strong and bright. All the cases do not have as happy an issue as most of the foregoing ones, though in some the results are not so bad as might be expected.
A German female, thirty-six, while in the sixth month of pregnancy, fell and struck her abdomen on a tub.
<<Back Index Next>> D-Link book Top TWC mobile books
|