Labor was rather slow, but she was successfully delivered of a healthy child weighing 23 3/4 pounds and 30 inches long.
The secundines weighed ten pounds and there were nine quarts of amniotic fluid.
There is a recent record of a Cesarian section performed on a woman of forty in her twelfth pregnancy and one month beyond term.

The fetus, which was almost exsanguinated by amputation, weighed 22 1/2 pounds.
Bumm speaks of the birth of a premature male infant weighing 4320 gm.
(9 1/2 pounds) and measuring 54 cm.

long.

Artificial labor had been induced at the thirty-fifth week in the hope of delivering a living child, the three preceding infants having all been still-born on account of their large size.

Although the mother's pelvis was wide, the disposition to bear huge infants was so great as to render the woman virtually barren.
Congenital asymmetry and hemihypertrophy of the body are most peculiar anomalies and must not be confounded with acromegaly or myxedema, in both of which there is similar lack of symmetric development.