During the first four years she felt discomfort in the region of the umbilicus.

About the seventh year she suffered tumefaction of the abdomen and thought she had conceived again.

The abscess burst and an elbow of the fetus protruded from the wound.

A butcher enlarged the wound and, fixing his finger under the jaw of the fetus, extracted the head.

On looking into the abdomen he perceived a black object, whereupon he introduced his hand and extracted piecemeal an entire fetal skeleton and some decomposed animal-matter.