The ball entered the abdomen two inches above the crest of the right ilium, a little to the rear of the anterior superior spinous process, and took a downward and forward course.

A little shock was felt but no serious symptoms followed.

In forty hours there was delivery of a dead child with a bullet in its abdomen.

Labor was normal and the internal recovery complete.

Von Chelius, quoting the younger Naegele, gives a remarkable instance of a young peasant of thirty-five, the mother of four children, pregnant with the fifth child, who was struck on the belly violently by a blow from a wagon pole.