tly brought through the opening. Pigne
speaks of a woman of thirty-eight, who in the eighth month of her sixth
pregnancy was gored by a bull, the horn effecting a transverse wound 27
inches long, running from one anterior spine to the other. The woman
was found cold and insensible and with an imperceptible pulse. The
small intestines were lying between the thighs and covered with
coagulated blood. In the process of cleansing, a male child was
expelled spontaneously through a rent in the uterus. The woman was
treated with the usual precautions and was conscious at midday. In a
month she was up. She lived twenty years without any inconvenience
except that due to a slight hernia on the left side. The child died at
the end of a fortnight.

In a very exhaustive article Harris of Philadelphia has collected
nearly all the remaining cases on record, and brief extracts from some
of them will be given below. In Zaandam, Holland, 1647, a farmer's wife
was tossed by a furious bull. Her abdomen was ripped open, and the
child and membranes escaped. The child suffered no injuries except a
bruised upper lip and lived nine months. The mother died within forty
hours of her injuries. Figure 19 taken from an engraving dated 1647,
represents an accouchement by a mad bull, possibly the same case. In
Dillenberg, Germany, in 1779, a multipara was gored by an ox at her
sixth month of pregnancy; the horn entered the right epigastric region,
three inches from the linea alba, and perforated the uterus. The right
arm of the fetus protruded; the wound was enlarged and the fetus and
placenta delivered. Thatcher speaks of a woman who was gored by a cow
in King's Park, and both mother and child were safely delivered and
survived.

In the Parish of Zecoytia, Spain, in 1785, Marie Gratien was gored by
an ox in the superior portion of her epigastrium, making a wound eight
inches long which wounded the uterus in the same direction. Dr. Antonio
di Zubeldia and Don Martin Monaco were called to take charge of the
case. While they were preparing to effect delivery by the vagina, the
woman, in an attack of singultus, ruptured the line of laceration and
expelled the fetus, dead. On the twenty-first day the patient was doing
well. The wound closed at the end of the sixteenth week. The woman
subsequently enjoyed excellent health and, although she had a small
ventral hernia, bore and nursed two children.

Marsh cites the instance of a woman of forty-two, the m