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abdominal wall. On making a re-examination, the doctor said 
he felt the placenta, loose in the womb, which he would remove. 
I warned him not to do it, that he was probably mistaken ; but 
he again used traction, and the substance came away with his 
hand, when he said he did not think anything else could be done } 
and soon left. After he was -gone, I examined this, and Dr. 
Morris also saw it, and we found it to be about eighteen inches 
of the bowel. I do not think, however, the amount of traction, 
which he employed would have been sufficient for so disastrous 
a result* uuless there had been softening of the bowel. The 
patient lived about two days and a half after the rupture of the 
womb occurred. 
Dr. Phillips said he had seen two cases of rupture of the 
womb, in both of which Caesarean section was performed. In 
one case the mother lived; in the other the mother died on the 
eleventh day after the operation. I believe it has#been ^stated 
that no woman ever survived the operation after ruptured 
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Salivary Calculus . 
Dr. Papin presented to the Society an interesting specimen of 
salivary calculus, which he had removed from the right side of. 
the soft palate of a patient lately under his Care. The patient, 
a lady sixty-five years of age, had suffered from slight, but very 
annoying sore throat, for two years. She had consulted phy- 
sicians here, but being informed it was nothing serious, and the 
treatment giving no relief, she went to Slew York and Philadel- 
phia, and the surgeons whom she consulted there assured her 
she was only laboring under a slight sore throat — she would 
soon get' wdll. She returned home and consulted two physicians 
before I saw her. When sent for, I found thevpatient very 
nervous, and somewhat debilitated. On examining the throat, 
I found the soft palate on the right side slightly red and tumid, 
and in the central position! noticed an ulcer with dark centre; 
on touching the dark spot* I felt something hard, like bone, and 
substituting the dressing forceps, I extracted a salivary stone, 
which I now show you. These seem to be very rare. I have 
only heard of two being met with in St. Louis — one by Dr. Pope 
and one by Dr. Phillips, 
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