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CHAPTER II
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Other cases of anal discharge of the product of extrauterine conception are recorded by Winthrop, Woodbury, Tuttle, Atkinson, Browne, Weinlechner, Gibson, Littre, Magruder, Gilland, and many others.

De Brun du Bois-Noir speaks of the expulsion of extrauterine remains by the anus after seven years, and Heyerdahl after thirteen years.

Benham mentions the discharge of a fetus by the rectum; there was a stricture of the rectum associated with syphilitic patches, necessitating the performance of colotomy.
Bartholinus and Rosseus speak of fetal bones being discharged from the urinary passages.

Ebersbach, in the Ephemerides of 1717, describes a necropsy in which a human fetus was found contained in the bladder.

In 1878 White reported an instance of the discharge of fetal remains through the bladder.
Discharge of the Fetus through the Abdominal Walls .-- Margaret Parry of Berkshire in 1668 voided the bones of a fetus through the flesh above the os pubis, and in 1684 she was alive and well, having had healthy children afterward.


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