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She had false pains in January, 1889, and labor did not begin until March 8th, lasting sixty-six hours.
If all these statements are correct, the probable duration of this pregnancy was eleven months and ten days. Lundie relates an example of protracted gestation of eleven months, in which an anencephalous fetus was born; and Martin of Birmingham describes a similar case of ten and a half months' duration. Raux-Tripier has seen protraction to the thirteenth month.
Enguin reports an observation of an accouchement of twins after a pregnancy that had been prolonged for eleven months.
Resnikoff mentions a pregnancy of eleven months' duration in an anemic secundipara.
The case had been under his observation from the beginning of pregnancy; the patient would not submit to artificial termination at term, which he advised.
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