Ten months after marriage she showed signs of
pregnancy and was delivered at full term of a living child; the
second child was born ten months after the first, and the second
month after the second birth she again showed signs of pregnancy.
At the close of nine months these symptoms, with the exception of
the suppression of menses, subsided, and in this state she
continued for six years. During the first four years she felt
discomfort in the region of the umbilicus. About the seventh year
she suffered tumefaction of the abdomen and thought she had
conceived again. The abscess burst and an elbow of the fetus
protruded from the wound. A butcher enlarged the wound and,
fixing his finger under the jaw of the fetus, extracted the head.
On looking into the abdomen he perceived a black object,
whereupon he introduced his hand and extracted piecemeal an
entire fetal skeleton and some decomposed animal-matter. The
abdomen was bound up, and in six weeks the woman was enabled to
superintend her domestic affairs; excepting a ventral hernia she
had no bad after-results. Kimura, quoted by Whitney, speaks of a
case of extrauterine pregnancy in a Japanese woman of forty-one
similar to the foregoing, in which an arm protruded through the
abdominal wall above the umbilicus and the remains of a fetus
were removed through the aperture.
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