Ruysch accompanies his description with an
illustrative figure. At Lyons, in 1782, Benoite Franquet was
unexpectedly delivered of a child seven months old; three weeks
later she experienced symptoms indicative of the existence of
another fetus, and after five months and sixteen days she was
delivered of a remarkably strong and healthy child.
Baudeloque speaks of a case of superfetation observed by
Desgranges in Lyons in 1780. After the birth of the first infant
the lochia failed to flow, no milk appeared in the breasts, and
the belly remained large. In about three weeks after the
accouchement she had connection with her husband, and in a few
days felt fetal movements. A second child was born at term,
sixty-eight days after the first; and in 1782 both children were
living. A woman of Arles was delivered on November 11, 1796, of a
child at term; she had connection with her husband four days
after; the lochia stopped, and the milk did not flow after this
intercourse. About one and a half months after this she felt
quickening again, and naturally supposed that she had become
impregnated by the first intercourse after confinement; but five
months after the first accouchement she was delivered of another
child at term, the result of a superfetation.
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