She had menstruated from this
bipartite uterus three times during the period between the
miscarriage of the twins and the birth of the child. Both the
mother and child did well.
In most cases there is rupture of the fetal sac into the
abdominal cavity or the uterus, and the fetus is ejected into
this location, from thence to be removed or carried therein many
years; but there are instances in which the conception has been
found in situ, as depicted in Figure 2. A sturdy woman of thirty
was executed on January 16, 1735, for the murder of her child. It
was ascertained that she had passed her catamenia about the first
of the month, and thereafter had sexual intercourse with one of
her fellow-prisoners. On dissection both Fallopian tubes were
found distended, and the left ovary, which bore signs of
conception, was twice as large as the right. Campbell quotes
another such case in a woman of thirty-eight who for twenty years
had practised her vocation as a Cyprian, and who unexpectedly
conceived. At the third month of pregnancy a hard extrauterine
tumor was found, which was gradually increasing in size and
extending to the left side of the hypogastrium, the associate
symptoms of pregnancy, sense of pressure, pain, tormina, and
dysuria, being unusually severe.
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