Information from India an this subject would be quite valuable.
The Ephemerides speak of bloodless abortion, and there have been
modern instances in which the hemorrhage has been hardly
noticeable.
Abortion in a twin pregnancy does not necessarily mean the
abortion or death of both the products of conception. Chapman
speaks of the case of the expulsion of a blighted fetus at the
seventh month, the living child remaining to the full term, and
being safely delivered, the placenta following. Crisp says of a
case of labor that the head of the child was obstructed by a
round body, the nature of which he was for some time unable to
determine. He managed to push the obstructing body up and
delivered a living, full-term child; this was soon followed by a
blighted fetus, which was 11 inches long, weighed 12 ounces, with
a placenta attached weighing 6 1/2 ounces. It is quite common for
a blighted fetus to be retained and expelled at term with a
living child, its twin.
Bacon speaks of twin pregnancy, with the death of one fetus at
the fourth month and the other delivered at term. Beall reports
the conception of twins, with one fetus expelled and the other
retained; Beauchamp cites a similar instance.
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