, as by apoplexy, accident, or
suicide, the child's chances are better. These statistics seem
conscientious and reliable, and we are safe in taking them as
indicative of the usual result, which discountenances the old reports
of death as taking place some time before extraction.

Peuch is credited with statistics showing that in 453 operations 101
children gave signs of life, but only 45 survived.

During the Commune of Paris, Tarnier, one night at the Maternite, was
called to an inmate who, while lying in bed near the end of pregnancy,
had been killed by a ball which fractured the base of the skull and
entered the brain. He removed the child by Cesarean section and it
lived for several days. In another case a pregnant woman fell from a
window for a distance of more than 30 feet, instant death resulting;
thirty minutes at least after the death of the mother an infant was
removed, which, after some difficulty, was resuscitated and lived for
thirteen years. Tarnier states that delivery may take place
three-quarters of an hour or even an hour after the death of the
mother, and he also quotes an extraordinary case by Hubert of a
successful Cesarean operation two hours after the mother's death; the
woman, who was eight months pregnant, was instantly killed while
crossing a railroad track.

Hoffman records the case of a successful Cesarean section done ten
minutes after death. The patient was a woman of thirty-six, in her
eighth month of pregnancy, who was suddenly seized with eclampsia,
which terminated fatally in ten hours. Ten minutes after her last
respiration the Cesarean section was performed and a living male child
delivered. This infant was nourished with the aid of a spoon, but it
died in twenty-five hours in consequence of its premature birth and
enfeebled vitality.

Green speaks of a woman, nine months pregnant, who was run over by a
heavily laden stage-coach in the streets of Southwark. She died in
about twenty minutes, and in about twenty minutes more a living child
was extracted from her by Cesarean section. There was a similar case in
the Hopital St. Louis, in Paris, in 1829; but in this case the child
was born alive five minutes after death. Squire tells of a case in
which the mother died of dilatation of the aorta, and in from twenty to
thirty minutes the child was saved. In comment on this case Aveling is
quoted as saying that he believed it possible to save a child one hour
after the death of the mo