Anomalies and curiosities of medicine : being an encyclopedic collection of rare and extraordinary cases, and of the most striking instances of abnormality in all branches of medicine and surgery, derived from an exhaustive research of medical literature from its origin to the present day / abstracted, classified, annotated, and indexed, by George M. Gould and Walter L. Pyle ; with 295 illustrations in the text, and 12 half-tone and colored plates.

  • George M. Gould
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1898, ©1896
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Credit: Anomalies and curiosities of medicine : being an encyclopedic collection of rare and extraordinary cases, and of the most striking instances of abnormality in all branches of medicine and surgery, derived from an exhaustive research of medical literature from its origin to the present day / abstracted, classified, annotated, and indexed, by George M. Gould and Walter L. Pyle ; with 295 illustrations in the text, and 12 half-tone and colored plates. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ished. Evans a has an instance of a fetus expelled enveloped in its membranes entire and unruptured. The membranes were opaque and preternatural ly thickened, and were opened with a pair of scissors ; strenuous efforts were made to save the child, but to no purpose. The mother, after a short con- valescence, made a good recovery. Forman b reports an instance of unruptured membranes at birth, the delivery following a single pain, in a woman of twenty-two, pregnant for a second time. Woodsonc speaks of a case of twins, one of which was born enveloped in its secundines. Van Bibber d was called in great haste to see a patient in labor. He reached the house in about fifteen minutes, and was told by the midwife, a woman of experience, that she had summoned him because of the expulsion from the womb of something the like of which she had never seen before. She thought it must have been some variety of false conception, and had wrapped it up in some flannel. It proved to be a fetus enclosed in its sac, with the placenta, all having been expelled together and intact. He told the nurse to rupture the membranes, and the child, which had been in the unrup- tured sac for over twenty minutes, began to cry. The infant lived for over a month, but eventually died of bronchitis. Cowgere reports labor at the end of the seventh month without rupture of the fetal sac. Macknus f and Rootesg speak of expulsion of the entire ovum at the full period of gestation. Roe mentions a case of parturition with unruptured membrane. Slusser h describes the delivery of a full-grown fetus without rupture of the membrane. Dry Births.—The reverse of the foregoing are those cases in which, by reason of the deficiency of the waters, the birth is dry. Numerous causes can be stated for such occurrences, and the reader is referred elsewhere for them, the subject being an old one. The Ephemerides speaks of it, and Rudolph 696 discusses its occurrence exhaustively and tells of the difficulties of such a labor. Burrall ! mentions a case of labor without apparent liquor amnii, delivery being effected by the forceps. Strong J records an unusual obstetric case in which there was prolongation of the pregnancy, with a large child, and entire absence of liquor amnii. The case was also complicated with interstitial and subserous fibroids and a contracted pelvis, combined with a posterior position of the occiput and nonrotation of the head. Lentek mentions a case of labor without liquor amnii ; and Townsendl records de- livery without any sanguineous discharge. Cosentino m mentions a case of the absence of liquor amnii associated with a fetal monstrosity. Delivery After Death of the Mother.—Curious indeed are those a 252, 1852-3, i., 146. b 538, 1896, Feb. 1, 160. c 124, 1860, 569. d 510, 1879, iv., 303. e 538, xxv., 84. f 476, 1846, i., 186. g 476, 1845, ii., 474. b West. Lancet, Cincin., xii., 501. i 124, cxl., 446. J 218, ex., 30. k 124, clxi., 125. ] 124, 1854, 342. m Arch, di Ostet. e Ginec, p. 41, Feb.-March, 1894.