The
children died shortly after birth.
Pregnancy often takes place in a unicorn or bicorn uterus,
leading to similar anomalous conditions. Galle, Hoffman, Massen,
and Sanger give interesting accounts of this occurrence, and Ross
relates an instance of triple pregnancy in a double uterus.
Cleveland describes a discharge of an anomalous deciduous
membrane during pregnancy which was probably from the
unimpregnated half of a double uterus.
CHAPTER II.
PRENATAL ANOMALIES.
Extrauterine Pregnancy.--In the consideration of prenatal
anomalies, the first to be discussed will be those of
extrauterine pregnancy. This abnormalism has been known almost as
long as there has been any real knowledge of obstetrics. In the
writings of Albucasis, during the eleventh century, extrauterine
pregnancy is discussed, and later the works of N. Polinus and
Cordseus, about the sixteenth century, speak of it; in the case
of Cordseus the fetus was converted into a lithopedion and
carried in the abdomen twenty-eight years. Horstius in the
sixteenth century relates the history of a woman who conceived
for the third time in March, 1547, and in 1563 the remains of the
fetus were still in the abdomen.
Israel Spach, in an extensive gynecologic work published in 1557,
figures a lithopedion drawn in situ in the case of a woman with
her belly laid open.
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