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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

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The child suffered no injuries except a bruised upper lip and lived nine months.

The mother died within forty hours of her injuries.

Figure 19 taken from an engraving dated 1647, represents an accouchement by a mad bull, possibly the same case.

In Dillenberg, Germany, in 1779, a multipara was gored by an ox at her sixth month of pregnancy; the horn entered the right epigastric region, three inches from the linea alba, and perforated the uterus.

The right arm of the fetus protruded; the wound was enlarged and the fetus and placenta delivered.


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