Other cases of anal
discharge of the product of extrauterine conception are recorded
by Winthrop, Woodbury, Tuttle, Atkinson, Browne, Weinlechner,
Gibson, Littre, Magruder, Gilland, and many others. De Brun du
Bois-Noir speaks of the expulsion of extrauterine remains by the
anus after seven years, and Heyerdahl after thirteen years.
Benham mentions the discharge of a fetus by the rectum; there was
a stricture of the rectum associated with syphilitic patches,
necessitating the performance of colotomy.
Bartholinus and Rosseus speak of fetal bones being discharged
from the urinary passages. Ebersbach, in the Ephemerides of 1717,
describes a necropsy in which a human fetus was found contained
in the bladder. In 1878 White reported an instance of the
discharge of fetal remains through the bladder.
Discharge of the Fetus through the Abdominal Walls.--Margaret
Parry of Berkshire in 1668 voided the bones of a fetus through
the flesh above the os pubis, and in 1684 she was alive and well,
having had healthy children afterward. Brodie reports the history
of a case in a negress who voided a fetus from an abscess at the
navel about the seventeenth month of conception. Modern instances
of the discharge of the extrauterine fetus from the walls of the
abdomen are frequently reported.
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