?isfdriqat JJftyimr. A FREAK OF By Dr. S. 0. Moses
.
NATURE.
l.r.c.s.
(Ed.),
l.f.p.s.
(glas.)
Mrs. W., residing at Howrali in her tenth pregnancy, had menstruated on the 4th or 5th February last for five or six days as was usual On the 4th or 5th June she had a with her. ' ' shew for a day, and again in June she saw an4 other shew' for a day. All went well with her till the morning of 29th September about 7i months from conception when, while attending to her household duties she felt something come This away from her, there was no discharge. The whole of that day she comshe preserved. plained of labour pain. By 3 a.m. of the 30th the pains died away I saw her at 7-30 a.m. The pains had returned and were of the 30th.
vigorous. On examination the second stage of labour was completion, and an hour later she gave birth The child was fully developed, well to a girl. nourished, and healthy.
near
what was passed the previous I a foetus about 5 or found morning, 5^ inches long, flattened with mouth open and genitals sufficiently developed to declare it a male, the cord was twisted round the neck. On
examining
This
was a
and probably the the later date in June
blighted foetus,
'shew' on the 5th marked its death.
or
Here was a blighted foetus undeveloped retained from June to September, while the mother carried the other foetus alive. This is a case which the theorists of superfoetation would hold as conclusive, but the points which militate against such a theory in this case arc, that the mother
was
in her ninth pregnancy
delivered of twins? the 'shew' in June
probably
dating the death ?of one foetus corresponding as closely as can be judged with the age of that foetus 3^ to 4 months; the flattened appearauee of the
blighted foetus born at the same time as a developed one, which is characteristic of the blighted foetus in cases when one foetus is undeveloped, while the other is fairly well or fully well
developed. I reported the geon of Howrali, saw
the
case.
to Dr. Purvis, Civil Surand he very kindly called and
case
.
NATURE.
l.r.c.s.
(Ed.),
l.f.p.s.
(glas.)
Mrs. W., residing at Howrali in her tenth pregnancy, had menstruated on the 4th or 5th February last for five or six days as was usual On the 4th or 5th June she had a with her. ' ' shew for a day, and again in June she saw an4 other shew' for a day. All went well with her till the morning of 29th September about 7i months from conception when, while attending to her household duties she felt something come This away from her, there was no discharge. The whole of that day she comshe preserved. plained of labour pain. By 3 a.m. of the 30th the pains died away I saw her at 7-30 a.m. The pains had returned and were of the 30th.
vigorous. On examination the second stage of labour was completion, and an hour later she gave birth The child was fully developed, well to a girl. nourished, and healthy.
near
what was passed the previous I a foetus about 5 or found morning, 5^ inches long, flattened with mouth open and genitals sufficiently developed to declare it a male, the cord was twisted round the neck. On
examining
This
was a
and probably the the later date in June
blighted foetus,
'shew' on the 5th marked its death.
or
Here was a blighted foetus undeveloped retained from June to September, while the mother carried the other foetus alive. This is a case which the theorists of superfoetation would hold as conclusive, but the points which militate against such a theory in this case arc, that the mother
was
in her ninth pregnancy
delivered of twins? the 'shew' in June
probably
dating the death ?of one foetus corresponding as closely as can be judged with the age of that foetus 3^ to 4 months; the flattened appearauee of the
blighted foetus born at the same time as a developed one, which is characteristic of the blighted foetus in cases when one foetus is undeveloped, while the other is fairly well or fully well
developed. I reported the geon of Howrali, saw
the
case.
to Dr. Purvis, Civil Surand he very kindly called and
case
