There is a recent instance of premature birth following a pregnancy of between five and a half and six months, the infant weighing 955 grams.

One month after birth, through the good offices of the wet-nurse and M.Villemin, who attended the child and who invented a "couveuse" for the occasion, it measured 38 cm.

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Moore is accredited with the trustworthy report of the case of a woman who bore a child at the end of the fifth month weighing 1 1/2 pounds and measuring 9 inches.

It was first nourished by dropping liquid food into its mouth; and at the age of fifteen months it was healthy and weighed 18 pounds.

Eikam saw a case of abortion at the fifth month in which the fetus was 6 inches in length and weighed about 8 ounces.