other of eight
children, who when eight months pregnant was horned by a cow. Her
clothes were not torn, but she felt that the child had slipped out, and
she caught it in her dress. She was seen by some neighbors twelve yards
from the place of accident, and was assisted to her house. The bowels
protruded and the child was separated from the funis. A physician saw
the woman three-quarters of an hour afterward and found her pulseless
and thoroughly exhausted. There was considerable but not excessive loss
of blood, and several feet of intestine protruded through the wound.
The womb was partially inverted through the wound, and the placenta was
still attached to the inverted portion. The wound in the uterus was
Y-shaped. The mother died in one and a half hours from the reception of
her injuries, but the child was uninjured.

Scott mentions the instance of a woman thirty-four years old who was
gored by an infuriated ox while in the ninth month of her eighth
pregnancy. The horn entered at the anterior superior spinous process of
the ilium, involving the parietes and the uterus. The child was
extruded through the wound about half an hour after the occurrence of
the accident. The cord was cut and the child survived and thrived,
though the mother soon died. Stalpart tells the almost incredible
story of a soldier's wife who went to obtain water from a stream and
was cut in two by a cannonball while stooping over. A passing soldier
observed something to move in the water, which, on investigation, he
found to be a living child in its membranes. It was christened by order
of one Cordua and lived for some time after.

Postmortem Cesarean Section.--The possibility of delivering a child by
Cesarean section after the death of the mother has been known for a
long time to the students of medicine. In the olden times there were
laws making compulsory the opening of the dead bodies of pregnant women
shortly after death. Numa Pompilius established the first law, which
was called "les regia," and in later times there were many such
ordinances. A full description of these laws is on record. Life was
believed possible after a gestation of six months or over, and, as
stated, some famous men were supposed to have been born in this manner.
Francois de Civile, who on great occasions signed himself "trois fois
enterre et trois fois par le grace de Dieu ressucite," saw the light of
the world by a happy Cesarean operation on his exhumed mother.
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