Brodie, Dunglison, Erich, Rodbard, Fox, and Wilson are among others reporting the expulsion of remnants of ectopic pregnancies through the abdominal parietes.

Campbell quotes the case of a Polish woman, aged thirty-five, the mother of nine children, most of whom were stillborn, who conceived for the tenth time, the gestation being normal up to the lying-in period.

She had pains followed by extraordinary effusion and some blood into the vagina.

After various protracted complaints the abdominal tumor became painful and inflamed in the umbilical region.

A breach in the walls soon formed, giving exit to purulent matter and all the bones of a fetus.