When Barker arrived the patient was literally drenched with blood and to all appearance dead.

He extracted a dead child from the abdomen and bandaged the mother, who lived only forty hours.

In his discourses on Tropical Diseases Moseley speaks of a young negress in Jamaica who opened her uterus and extracted therefrom a child which lived six days; the woman recovered.

Barker relates another case in Rensselaer County, N.Y., in which the incision was made with the razor, the woman likewise recovering.

There is an interesting account of a poor woman at Prischtina, near the Servian frontier, who, suffering greatly from the pains of labor, resolved to open her abdomen and uterus.