The neighbors were so frightened by the awful sight that they ran away, or possibly the child might have been saved by ligature of the funis.

Not until the arrival of the clergyman was anything done, and death ultimately ensued.
A most wonderful case of endurance of pain and heroism was one occurring in Italy, which attracted much European comment at the time.
A young woman, illegitimately pregnant, at full term, on March 28th, at dawn, opened her own abdomen on the left side with a common knife such as is generally used in kitchens.

The wound measured five inches, and was directed obliquely outward and downward.

She opened the uterus in the same direction, and endeavored to extract the fetus.

To expedite the extraction, she drew out an arm and amputated it, and finding the extraction still difficult, she cut off the head and completely emptied the womb, including the placenta.