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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER III
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Walters saw the woman twenty-one hours afterward, and ligated and severed the protruding omentum.

On the twenty-eighth day, after a marvelous recovery, she was able to drive to the Royal Berkshire Hospital, a distance of five miles.

At the time of report, two years and six months after the mutilation, she was in perfect health.

Walters looked into the statistics of such cases and found 36 accidental removals of the uterus in the puerperium with 14 recoveries.

All but three of these were without a doubt attended by previous inversion of the uterus.
A medical man was tried for manslaughter in 1878 because he made a similar mistake.


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