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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

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In another the mother and intrauterine fetus died, and the extrauterine fetus lived.
Wilson a gives an instance of a woman delivered of a healthy female child at eight months which lived.

The after-birth came away without assistance, but the woman still presented every appearance of having another child within her, although examination by the vagina revealed none.

Wilson called Chatard in consultation, and from the fetal heart-sounds and other symptoms they decided that there was another pregnancy wholly extrauterine.

They allowed the case to go twenty-three days, until pains similar to those of labor occurred, and then decided on celiotomy.

The operation was almost bloodless, and a living child weighing eight pounds was extracted.


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