collected the results of traumatism during pregnancy, and
summarizes 61 cases. Prowzowsky cites the instance of a patient in the
eighth month of her first pregnancy who was wounded by many pieces of
lead pipe fired from a gun but a few feet distant. Neither the patient
nor the child suffered materially from the accident, and gestation
proceeded; the child died on the fourth day after birth without
apparent cause. Milner records an instance of remarkable tolerance of
injury in a pregnant woman. During her six months of pregnancy the
patient was accidentally shot through the abdominal cavity and lower
part of the thorax. The missile penetrated the central tendon of the
diaphragm and lodged in the lung. The injury was limited by localized
pneumonia and peritonitis, and the wound was drained through the lung
by free expectoration. Recovery ensued, the patient giving birth to a
healthy child sixteen weeks later. Belin mentions a stab-wound in a
pregnant woman from which a considerable portion of the epiploon
protruded. Sloughing ensued, but the patient made a good recovery,
gestation not being interrupted. Fancon describes the case of a woman
who had an injury to the knee requiring drainage. She was attacked by
erysipelas, which spread over the whole body with the exception of the
head and neck; yet her pregnancy was uninterrupted and recovery ensued.
Fancon also speaks of a girl of nineteen, frightened by her lover, who
threatened to stab her, who jumped from a second-story window. For
three days after the fall she had a slight bloody flow from the vulva.
Although she was six months pregnant there was no interruption of the
normal course of gestation.

Bancroft speaks of a woman who, being mistaken for a burglar, was shot
by her husband with a 44-caliber bullet. The missile entered the second
and third ribs an inch from the sternum, passed through the right lung,
and escaped at the inferior angle of the scapula, about three inches
below the spine; after leaving her body it went through a pine door.
She suffered much hemorrhage and shock, but made a fair recovery at the
end of four weeks, though pregnant with her first child at the seventh
month. At full term she was delivered by foot-presentation of a healthy
boy. The mother at the time of report was healthy and free from cough,
and was nursing her babe, which was strong and bright.

All the cases do not have as happy an issue as most of the foregoing
ones, though in som