nto her body, emerging two inches below the
umbilicus and one inch to the right of the median line.

Injuries of the vagina may be so extensive as to allow protrusion of
the intestines, and some horrible cases of this nature are recorded. In
The Lancet for 1873 there is reported a murder or suicide of this
description. The woman was found with a wound in the vagina, through
which the intestines, with clean-cut ends, protruded. Over 7 1/2 feet
of the intestines had been cut off in three pieces. The cuts were all
clean and carefully separated from the mesentery. The woman survived
her injuries a whole week, finally succumbing to loss of blood and
peritonitis. Her husband was tried for murder, but was acquitted by a
Glasgow jury. Taylor mentions similar cases of two women murdered in
Edinburgh some years since, the wounds having been produced by razor
slashes in the vagina. Taylor remarks that this crime seems to be quite
common in Scotland. Starkey reports an instance in which the body of an
old colored woman was found, with evidences of vomiting, and her
clothing stained with blood that had evidently come from her vagina. A
postmortem showed the abdominal cavity to be full of blood; at Douglas'
culdesac there was a tear large enough to admit a man's hand, through
which protruded a portion of the omentum; this was at first taken for
the membranes of an abortion. There were distinct signs of acute
peritonitis. After investigation it was proved that a drunken
glass-blower had been seen leaving her house with his hand and arm
stained with blood. In his drunken frenzy this man had thrust his hand
into the vagina, and through the junction of its posterior wall with
the uterus, up into the abdominal cavity, and grasped the uterus,
trying to drag it out. Outside of obstetric practice the injury is
quite a rare one.

There is a case of death from a ruptured clitoris reported by
Gutteridge. The woman was kicked while in a stooping position and
succumbed to a profuse hemorrhage, estimated to be between three and
four pounds, and proceeding from a rupture of the clitoris.

Discharge of Vaginal Parietes.--Longhi describes the case of a woman of
twenty-seven, an epileptic, with metritis and copious catamenia twice a
month. She was immoderately addicted to drink and sexual indulgence,
and in February, 1835, her menses ceased. On May 8th she was admitted
to the hospital with a severe epileptic convulsion, and until the 18th
remaine