The principles and practice of obstetric medicine and surgery : in reference to the process of parturition / by Franics H. Ramsbotham.

Francis Henry Ramsbotham

Date:: 1865

Credit: The principles and practice of obstetric medicine and surgery : in reference to the process of parturition / by Franics H. Ramsbotham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Plate 82, I pr< ssmne tha t tin which ought t o have em with each oth( of the foetus, other, and the parts bee ime would coalesc b, providei 1 th< that sometime they lay for a oy length of ti the two bodiei Richerand [Elem of Phyi vessel the fee formed, not h ived and they ire may believ. inceptions, but that the membranes inseparable barrier between them, allowed to come into close contact ,ver existing in the vascular system -hut from one to the ii. in the same wav that two finger3 vere kept in :i],position. We know nluain's. ami in such case, provided . ! lite i ssible fur a junction of ells us, By placing in a confined le numerous young ones which are sre to each other, and fishes truly t is not very unusual for two fruits, X. Plural Births.—Besides the instance mentioned in the text — putting out of the question the extravagant stories related by Ambrose Pare. Shenekius Petrus Poreli, and others—there are a few more well-attested eases of five children at a birth. One will be found in the Gen- tleman's Magazine for 1730: the patient lived in the Strand ; another, in the same periodical, 1739, at Wells. Somersetshire; one occurred in Upper Saxony; one near Prague in Bohemia. (Garthshore. Philusoph. Trans. 1787.) Chambcui relates a case of five, which lived long enough to be baptized. (Campbell's Mid. p. LV.U.) In the British and Foreign Med. Review for 1839, a notice is given of a woman at Naples being delivered of five children at seven months; in the Dublin Med. Journal for January, 18 Hi, there is an account given of Dr. Evory Kennedy having shown to the Dublin Patholo- gical Society five ova of between two and three months, which were expelled at once under the super to Mr. Wardlewr hey , ce of Dr. Thw •th's case at p. 499. And if :—The wife of a c e all male childl lould relit founder at Luginski, in Rul about half an hour after tl months, on May 20, 1840. Wright, the wife of a shoei delivered of five boys at a 1 vanced; but the foetuses w< name of Roberts; and Mr. The children are preserved The lost 1 •Ulo, that Dr. Hull's case is by nc > of supposed fecundity in i a marble tablet, which still ie monument bears the follov (Satirist, Aug. safely delivered, on June 21, on of'half an hour. (Times, a, near Mitweida, in Saxony, l their conformation, died in A \. ■ ican in New Hampshire g of the year 1841. (Times, daughters at a birth at six at my house in 1841.) Mrs. ■he-tcr-row. Westminster, was i.-cd herself seven months ad- attended liv a midwife of the is called to her in her labour. eans without a parallel. mman female is that of the or at least was, in the church ; announcement: — After which lines follows a pm<e accou llennan, Earl of ileimeberg. and daught land (then we are favoured with her \ years old, upon Easter-day, 1276, at 9 a. were baptized in two brazen basins by Gi getherwith their mother, died on the -an of Lonsdunen. This supernatural infli< justice; for we are informed that the Co was carrying twins, shook her off with c one father; whereupon the poor woman were days in the whole year ; which c: perpetual recollection, testified as well b\ (For a brief notice of this fact, up> Medals, fol. 1097, p. 207.)$