After
the escape of this putrid mass her health returned, and in four
months she was again robust and healthy. Whinery speaks of a
young woman who at the time of her second child-birth observed a
tumor in the abdomen on her right side and felt motion in it. In
about a month she was with severe pain which continued a week and
then ceased. Health soon improved, and the woman afterward gave
birth to a third child; subsequently she noticed that the tumor
had enlarged since the first birth, and she had a recurrence of
pain and a slight hemorrhage every three weeks, and distinctly
felt motion in the tumor. This continued for eighteen months,
when, after a most violent attack of pain, all movement ceased,
and, as she expressed it, she knew the moment the child died. The
tumor lost its natural consistence and felt flabby and dead. An
incision was made through the linea alba, and the knife came in
contact with a hard, gritty substance, three or four lines thick.
The escape of several quarts of dark brown fluid followed the
incision, and the operation had to be discontinued on account of
the ensuing syncope. About six weeks afterward a bone presented
at the orifice, which the woman extracted, and this was soon
followed by a mass of bones, hair, and putrid matter.
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