Newman reports a curious case of twins,
in which the cord of one child was encircled by a knot on the
cord of the other. Among others, Latimer and Motte report
instances of the accidental tying of the bowel with the funis,
causing an artificial anus.
The diverse causes of abortion are too numerous to attempt giving
them all, but some are so curious and anomalous that they deserve
mention. Epidemics of abortion are spoken of by Fickius, Fischer,
and the Ephemerides. Exposure to cold is spoken of as a cause,
and the same is alluded to by the Ephemerides; while another case
is given as due to exposure white nude. There are several cases
among the older writers in which odors are said to have produced
abortion, but as analogues are not to be found in modern
literature, unless the odor is very poisonous or pungent, we can
give them but little credence. The Ephemerides gives the odor of
urine as provocative of abortion; Sulzberger, Meyer, and Albertus
all mention odors; and Vesti gives as a plausible cause the odor
of carbonic vapor. The Ephemerides mentions singultus as a cause
of abortion. Mauriceau, Pelargus, and Valentini mention coughing.
Hippocrates mentions the case of a woman who induced abortion by
calling excessively loud to some one.
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