The young girl was operated on in the crudest manner, the hemorrhage being checked by a hot iron.

The sutures were made by means of seven thin, hot iron spikes, resembling acupressure-needles, closing the peritoneum and skin.

The wound healed in eleven days, and the mother made a complete recovery.

Thomas Cowley describes the case of a negro woman who, being unable to bear the pains of labor any longer, took a sharp knife and made a deep incision in her belly--deep enough to wound the buttocks of her child, and extracted the child, placenta and all.

A negro horse-doctor was called, who sewed the wound up in a manner similar to the way dead bodies are closed at the present time.
Barker gives the instance of a woman who, on being abused by her husband after a previous tedious labor, resolved to free herself of the child, and slyly made an incision five inches long on the left side of the abdomen with a weaver's knife.