She summoned a neighbor to sew up the incision after she had extracted the child, and at the time of report, several months later, both the mother and child were doing well.
Madigan cites the case of a woman of thirty-four, in her seventh confinement, who, while temporarily insane, laid open her abdomen with a razor, incised the uterus, and brought out a male child.

The abdominal wound was five inches long, and extended from one inch above the umbilicus straight downward.

There was little or no bleeding and the uterus was firmly contracted.

She did not see a physician for three hours.

The child was found dead and, with the placenta, was lying by her side.