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Excerpt from The Chicago Medical Journal, Vol. 3: January, 1860 The patient was left in a very prostrate condition, and unconscious, her Physicians not expecting her to live but a few hours; she was however, in a few days reported as doing well. Danger from adhesions of vaginal walls was pointed out to her consequent upon sloughing from long continued pressure of head; and the necessary treatment proposed; the patient however refused to be treated; consequently adhesion Of vaginal walls took place. Within nine months, she again became pregnant. During the early months she was examined by several physicians who were unable to pass a small probe beyond the stricture, there seeming to be complete occlusion of vagina. An opera tion was advised, but refused. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.