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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    continued for near nine months, and then gra¬ dually difappeared. * She had, after this, three more enlargements of the abdomen, of a ffiorter continuance, du- * ring the above thirteen years, but had no milk in her breafts, as in the two: former of three and feven years. At the expiration of thefe thirteen years from the fecond fuppofed pregnancy, after fuf- fering pains for feveral days, ffie was feized, while fitting on the clofeftool, with one more violent than ufual, and pafled fomething with great difficulty by the anus, which was found to be the rib of a foetus. This was in the year 1759, about twenty-one years from her fright dftring pregnancy. The menfes had then left her about twelve months. From this time fome bones came away every two or three days for feveral weeks, but with more eafe than the fir ft, and ffie was able in about five weeks to walk about the houfe, but could not for three years walk half a mile. During all this time fome bones came away every two or three weeks; but after that time ffie re- l mained eafy for a quarter or half a year, with¬ out parting with any, and then gradually re¬ covered a confiderable degree of ftrength. The