Professor J.Muller, to whom it was shown, said that it was not more than four months old, and this coincided with the mother's calculation.
Villemin before the Societe Obstetricale et Gynecologique reported the case of a two-year-old child, born in the sixth month of pregnancy.
That the child had not had six months of intrauterine life he could vouch, the statement being borne out by the last menstrual period of the mother, the date of the first fetal movements, the child's weight, which was 30 1/2 ounces, and its appearance.

Budin had had this infant under observation from the beginning and corroborated Villemin's statements.

He had examined infants of six or seven months that had cried and lived a few days, and had found the alveolar cavities filled with epithelial cells, the lung sinking when placed in a vessel of water.

Charpentier reported a case of premature birth in his practice, the child being not more than six and a half months and weighing 33 1/2 ounces.

So sure was he that it would not live that he placed it in a basin while he attended to the mother.