Her body was recovered, and a surgeon who was present seized a knife from a butcher standing by and extracted a living child in the presence of the curious spectators.

Campbell discusses this subject most thoroughly, though he advances no new opinions upon it.
Duer tabulates the successful results of a number of cases of Cesarean section after death as follows:-- Children extracted between 1 and 5 minutes after death of the mother, 21 " " 10 and 15 " " " " " " 13 " " 15 and 30 " " " " " " 2 " " 1 hour " " " " " " 2 " " 2 hours " " " " " " 2 Garezky of St.Petersburg collected reports of 379 cases of Cesarean section after death with the following results: 308 were extracted dead; 37 showed signs of life; 34 were born alive.

Of the 34, only 5 lived for any length of time.

He concludes that if extracted within five or six minutes after death, they may be born alive; if from six to ten minutes, they may still be born alive, though asphyxiated; if from ten to twenty-six minutes, they will be highly asphyxiated.

In a great number of these cases the infant was asphyxiated or dead in one minute.
Of course, if the death is sudden, as by apoplexy, accident, or suicide, the child's chances are better.