icius Hildanus and Boarton report similar instances. Bourton cites
among others the case of an infant who was found living twelve hours
after the death of his mother. Dufour and Mauriceau are two older
French medical writers who discuss this subject. Flajani speaks of a
case in which a child was delivered at the death of its mother, and
some of the older Italian writers discuss the advisability of the
operation in the moribund state before death actually ensues. Heister
writes of the delivery of the child after the death of the mother by
opening the abdomen and uterus.

Harris relates several interesting examples. In Peru in 1794 a Sambi
woman was killed by lightning, and the next day the abdomen was opened
by official command and a living child was extracted. The Princess von
Swartzenberg, who was burned to death at a ball in Paris in 1810, was
said to have had a living child removed from her body the next day.
Like all similar instances, this was proved to be false, as her body
was burned beyond the possibility of recognition, and, besides, she was
only four months pregnant. Harris mentions another case of a young
woman who threw herself from the Pont Neuf into the Seine. Her body was
recovered, and a surgeon who was present seized a knife from a butcher
standing by and extracted a living child in the presence of the curious
spectators. Campbell discusses this subject most thoroughly, though he
advances no new opinions upon it.

Duer tabulates the successful results of a number of cases of Cesarean
section after death as follows:--

Children extracted
between 1 and 5 minutes after death of the mother, 21
" " 10 and 15 " " " " " " 13
" " 15 and 30 " " " " " " 2
" " 1 hour " " " " " " 2
" " 2 hours " " " " " " 2

Garezky of St. Petersburg collected reports of 379 cases of Cesarean
section after death with the following results: 308 were extracted
dead; 37 showed signs of life; 34 were born alive. Of the 34, only 5
lived for any length of time. He concludes that if extracted within
five or six minutes after death, they may be born alive; if from six to
ten minutes, they may still be born alive, though asphyxiated; if from
ten to twenty-six minutes, they will be highly asphyxiated. In a great
number of these cases the infant was asphyxiated or dead in one minute.
Of course, if the death is sudden