Unfortunately, the mother succumbed after ninety hours, and in a month the intrauterine child died from inanition, but the child of extrauterine gestation thrived.
Sales gives the case of a negress of twenty-two, who said that she had been "tricked by a negro," and had a large snake in the abdomen, and could distinctly feel its movements.

She stoutly denied any intercourse.

It was decided to open the abdominal cyst; the incision was followed by a gush of blood and a placenta came into view, which was extracted with a living child.

To the astonishment of the operators the uterus was distended, and it was decided to open it, when another living child was seen and extracted.

The cyst and the uterus were cleansed of all clots and the wound closed.