This continued for eighteen months, when, after a most violent attack of pain, all movement ceased, and, as she expressed it, she knew the moment the child died.

The tumor lost its natural consistence and felt flabby and dead.

An incision was made through the linea alba, and the knife came in contact with a hard, gritty substance, three or four lines thick.
The escape of several quarts of dark brown fluid followed the incision, and the operation had to be discontinued on account of the ensuing syncope.

About six weeks afterward a bone presented at the orifice, which the woman extracted, and this was soon followed by a mass of bones, hair, and putrid matter.

The discharge was small, and gradually grew less in quantity and offensiveness, soon ceasing altogether, and the wound closed.