After this had been done, the child being still alive, he wrapped it in cotton and was surprised next day to find it alive.

It was then placed in a small, well-heated room and fed with a spoon on human milk; on the twelfth day it could take the breast, since which time it thrived and grew.
There is a case on record of a child viable at six months and twenty days.

The mother had a miscarriage at the beginning of 1877, after which menstruation became regular, appearing last from July 3 to 9, 1877.

On January 28, 1878, she gave birth to a male infant, which was wrapped in wadding and kept at an artificial temperature.

Being unable to suckle, it was fed first on diluted cow's milk.