Unfortunately, this poor woman was infected with gonorrhea after the attempted assault.

Simmons of St.Louis gives a curious peculiarity of conception, in which there was complete closure of the vagina, subsequent conception, and delivery at term.

He made the patient's acquaintance from her application to him in regard to a malcondition of her sexual apparatus, causing much domestic infelicity.
Lawson speaks of a woman of thirty-five, who had been married ten months, and whose husband could never effect an entrance; yet she became pregnant and had a normal labor, despite the fact that, in addition to a tough and unruptured hymen, she had an occluding vaginal cyst.

Hickinbotham of Birmingham reports the history of two cases of labor at term in females whose hymens were immensely thickened.

H.Grey Edwards has seen a case of imperforate hymen which had to be torn through in labor; yet one single act of copulation, even with this obstacle to entrance, sufficed to impregnate.