On July 28th she was threatened with miscarriage, and by his advice the woman weaned the child at the breast.

She expected to be confined the middle of November, 1876, but the expected event did not occur until April 26, 1877, nine months after the quickening and four hundred and forty days from the time of conception.

The boy was active and weighed nine pounds.

The author cites Meigs' case, and also one of Atlee's, at three hundred and fifty-six days.
Talcott, Superintendent of the State Homeopathic Asylum for the Insane, explained the pregnancy of an inmate who had been confined for four years in this institution as one of protracted labor.

He said that many such cases have been reported, and that something less than two years before he had charge of a case in which the child was born.