TRAUMATISM OF INTERNAL ORGANS. 61 



The anatomical and histological examination of this case plainly shows 

 that this woman was in the first stage of labor and that she was suffering 

 from a profound fatty degeneration of the liver which may perhaps have 

 been the first stage of acute, yellow atrophy of that organ. "When the 

 bandage was applied to assist in labor, as is habitually done among the 

 natives, the force of the pressure was sufficiently great to drive the sharp 

 point of the eleventh rib into a very soft, flabby, fatty liver, thus causing 

 a rupture and fatal haemorrhage. 



