In 1860 Schuh reported an instance
before the Vienna Faculty of Medicine in which a fetus was
discharged at the third month of pregnancy and the other twin
retained until full term. The abortion was attended with much
metrorrhagia, and ten weeks afterward the movements of the other
child could be plainly felt and pregnancy continued its course
uninterrupted. Bates mentions a twin pregnancy in which an
abortion took place at the second month and was followed by a
natural birth at full term. Hawkins gives a case of miscarriage,
followed by a natural birth at full term; and Newnham cites a
similar instance in which there was a miscarriage at the seventh
month and a birth at full term.
Worms in the Uterus.--Haines speaks of a most curious case--that
of a woman who had had a miscarriage three days previous; she
suffered intense pain and a fetid discharge. A number of maggots
were seen in the vagina, and the next day a mass about the size
of an orange came away from the uterus, riddled with holes, and
which contained a number of dead maggots, killed by the carbolic
acid injection given soon after the miscarriage. The fact seems
inexplicable, but after their expulsion the symptoms immediately
ameliorated.
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