Storok also speaks of
birth during unconsciousness in an epileptic attack; and Haen and
others describe cases occurring during the coma attending
apoplectic attacks. King reports the histories of two married
women, fond mothers and anticipating the event, who gave birth to
children, apparently unconsciously. In the first case, the
appearance of the woman verified the assertion; in the second, a
transient suspension of the menstrual influence accounted for it.
After some months epilepsy developed in this case. Crawford
speaks of a Mrs. D., who gave birth to twins in her first
confinement at full term, and who two years after aborted at
three months. In December, 1868, a year after the abortion, she
was delivered of a healthy, living fetus of about five or six
months' growth in the following manner: While at stool, she
discovered something of a shining, bluish appearance protruding
through the external labia, but she also found that when she lay
down the tumor disappeared. This tumor proved to be the child,
which had been expelled from the uterus four days before, with
the waters and membranes intact, but which had not been
recognized; it had passed through the os without pain or
symptoms, and had remained alive in the vagina over four days,
from whence it was delivered, presenting by the foot.
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