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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER II
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The abdomen was bound up, and in six weeks the woman was enabled to superintend her domestic affairs; excepting a ventral hernia she had no bad after-results.

Kimura, quoted by Whitney, speaks of a case of extrauterine pregnancy in a Japanese woman of forty-one similar to the foregoing, in which an arm protruded through the abdominal wall above the umbilicus and the remains of a fetus were removed through the aperture.

The accompanying illustration shows the appearance of the arm in situ before extraction of the fetus and the location of the wound.
Bodinier and Lusk report instances of the delivery of an extrauterine fetus by the vagina; and Mathieson relates the history of the delivery of a living ectopic child by the vagina, with recovery of the mother.
Gordon speaks of a curious case in a negress, six months pregnant, in which an extrauterine fetus passed down from the posterior culdesac and occluded the uterus.

It was removed through the vagina, and two days later labor-pains set in, and in two hours she was delivered of a uterine child.

The placenta was left behind and drainage established through the vagina, and the woman made complete recovery.
Combined Intrauterine and Extrauterine Gestation .-- Many well-authenticated cases of combined pregnancy, in which one of the products of conception was intrauterine and the other of extrauterine gestation, have been recorded.


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