Case of an extra-uterine foetus. Communicated in a letter to Dr. Simmons / [Michael Underwood].

  • Michael Underwood
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[1787]
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Credit: Case of an extra-uterine foetus. Communicated in a letter to Dr. Simmons / [Michael Underwood]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    afterwards made its way through the integu¬ ments of the abdomen, or by the inteflines*. To'this clafs I think may be alfo referred the cafe of a woman communicated by Dr. Per- cival in the Medical Commentaries, (Vol. II. page 77,) where, from the circymftances of flooding and pain brought on by a fudden fright in the lixth month of pregnancy, there is great reafon to fufpedt that the child then efcaped into the general cavity, from which it was afterwards expelled, piecemeal, by the redtum, at the end of twenty-two years. This woman's body not having been examined af¬ ter death, leaves the fceptical room to doubt whether any adtual rupture took place ; but we have a more decilive proof of the poffibility of fuch an event in the cafe of the woman of Tou- loufe, mentioned by Aftruc who, during the pains of a very laborious birth, had her uterus burlt, and her child paffed into the cavity of ** In two of the four cafes of thkjdnd, which he mentions, the foetus made its way through the integuments of the abdo¬ men, and in the two others by the inteftines j three of the women recovered entirely, and the fourth furvived fome time, and paffed many of the bones of her foetus by flool, but did not live long enough to get rid of the whole. f L’Art d’Accoucher, Chap. iy. page z8,|*
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