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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    / [ 35 ] term of pregnancy there is always an effort to expel the child, which, in fome cafes, is fre^* quently and violently repeated. And it has been alfo obferved, that at whatever of the later months the child dies, there commonly follows a flow of milk to the breafls. From the cafes I have adduced, I think it ■ ;/// r . ... appears clearly that a child, remaining in the cavity of the abdomen, is fo far from being neceffarily a fatal accident, that it does not even prevent future pregnancies, and confer quent natural births; nay, we farther know, from a cafe communicated by Dr. Steiger- tliall, in the Philofophical Tranfadtionsthat a woman has lived in good health to the age of ninety-four with a full grown foetus in her abdomen for the laft forty-fix years of her life, during which period fhe bore two other children. But what is flill more extraordi- nary, we have good reafon to be affured that women have not only for a confiderable time furvived, but even fometimes recovered, by the powers of nature, after the child has efcaped through a rupture of the uterus. I am, there¬ fore, much inclined to believe, that when this z & t & t Vol.XXXL p. 126, accident