e the results are not so bad as might be expected. A
German female, thirty-six, while in the sixth month of pregnancy, fell
and struck her abdomen on a tub. She was delivered of a normal living
child, with the exception that the helix of the left ear was pushed
anteriorly, and had, in its middle, a deep incision, which also
traversed the antihelix and the tragus, and continued over the cheek
toward the nose, where it terminated. The external auditory meatus was
obliterated. Gurlt speaks of a woman, seven months pregnant, who fell
from the top of a ladder, subsequently losing some blood and water from
the vagina. She had also persistent pains in the belly, but there was
no deterioration of general health. At her confinement, which was
normal, a strong boy was born, wanting the arm below the middle, at
which point a white bone protruded. The wound healed and the separated
arm came away after birth. Wainwright relates the instance of a woman
of forty, who when six months pregnant was run over by railway cars.
After a double amputation of the legs she miscarried and made a good
recovery. Neugebauer reported the history of a case of a woman who,
while near her term of pregnancy, committed suicide by jumping from a
window. She ruptured her uterus, and a dead child with a fracture of
the parietal bone was found in the abdominal cavity. Staples speaks of
a Swede of twenty-eight, of Minnesota, who was accidentally shot by a
young man riding by her side in a wagon. The ball entered the abdomen
two inches above the crest of the right ilium, a little to the rear of
the anterior superior spinous process, and took a downward and forward
course. A little shock was felt but no serious symptoms followed. In
forty hours there was delivery of a dead child with a bullet in its
abdomen. Labor was normal and the internal recovery complete. Von
Chelius, quoting the younger Naegele, gives a remarkable instance of a
young peasant of thirty-five, the mother of four children, pregnant
with the fifth child, who was struck on the belly violently by a blow
from a wagon pole. She was thrown down, and felt a tearing pain which
caused her to faint. It was found that the womb had been ruptured and
the child killed, for in several days it was delivered in a putrid
mass, partly through the natural passage and partly through an abscess
opening in the abdominal wall. The woman made a good recovery. A
curious accident of pregnancy is that of a woman of th