The accoucheur was summoned, pronounced them false pains, and went away.

On his return he found the girl dying, with her uterus completely inverted and hanging between her legs.

This unfortunate maiden had been delivered while standing upright, with her elbows on the back of a chair.

The child suddenly escaped, bringing with it the uterus, but as the funis ruptured the child fell to the floor.

Wagner pictures partial prolapse of the womb in labor.
It would too much extend this chapter to include the many accidents incident to labor, and only a few of especial interest will be given.
Cases like rupture of an aneurysm during labor, extensive hemorrhage, the entrance of air into the uterine veins and sinuses, and common lacerations will be omitted, together with complicated births like those of double monsters, etc., but there are several other cases that deserve mention.