Leaving for now discussion of the bladder (but not the uterus), we will consider a few other operations performed through this incision which are more dangerous than the caesarean, yet not of themselves fatal. These will be addressed in five consecutive paragraphs.

The first deals with pregnant women unaware of their pregnancy, in whom a dead and necrotic fetus caused the uterus to rot inside, who died after some time for want of an operation, yet might have lived had the problem been diagnosed and surgery performed in a timely manner.

The second, of women – some pregnant, some not – suffering from a uterine abscess and drained, not by caesarean but by the actual cautery through the abdomen, without dying, or losing the pregnancy, which is an operation worse than a caesarean.

The third of diseases where the uterus is so necrotic inside, near its fundus, that the dead fetus is expelled from its cavity into the abdomen, whence it is later removed through the abdominal wall, where it was believed to be a large abscess, without the woman dying or being unable to bear children in the future, the uterus having healed itself.

The fourth case, of women whose prolapsed and necrotic uterus was totally removed without causing death – this being accomplished by cutting, cautery or ligature.

The fifth, of women whose prolapsed uterus underwent necrosis and fell out spontaneously without death, or subsequent illness.