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Campbell says that Simpson had cases of three hundred and nineteen, three hundred and thirty-two, and three hundred and thirty-six days'; Meigs had one of four hundred and twenty.
James Reid, in a table of 500 mature births, gives 14 as being from three hundred and two to three hundred and fifteen days'. Not so long ago a jury rendered a verdict of guilty of fornication and bastardy when it was alleged that the child was born three hundred and seventeen days after intercourse.
Taylor relates a case of pregnancy in which the wife of a laborer went to America three hundred and twenty-two days before the birth.
Jaffe describes an instance of the prolongation of pregnancy for three hundred and sixty-five days, in which the developments and measurements corresponded to the length of protraction.
Bryan speaks of a woman of twenty-five who became pregnant on February 10, 1876, and on June 17th felt motion.
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