Doubtless the intense cold had so contracted the blood-vessels as to prevent fatal hemorrhage to mother and child.

This case has a legal bearing in the supposition that the child had been killed in the fall.
There is reported the case of a woman in Wales, who, while walking with her husband, was suddenly seized with pains, and would have been delivered by the wayside but for the timely help of Madame Patti, the celebrated diva, who was driving by, and who took the woman in her carriage to her palatial residence close by.

It was to be christened in a few days with an appropriate name in remembrance of the occasion.
Coleman met an instance in a married woman, who without the slightest warning was delivered of a child while standing near a window in her bedroom.

The child fell to the floor and ruptured the cord about one inch from the umbilicus, but with speedy attention the happiest results were attained.

Twitchell has an example in the case of a young woman of seventeen, who was suddenly delivered of a child while ironing some clothes.