The woman
had given birth to three still-born children, and always
menstruated easily. Coitus always seemed satisfactory, and no
suspicion existed in the patient's mind, and had never been
suggested to her, of her abnormality.
Harrison saw a fetus delivered by the anus after rupture of the
uterus; the membranes came away by the same route. In this case
the neck of the uterus was cartilaginous and firmly adherent to
the adjacent parts. In seven days after the accouchement the
woman had completely regained her health. Vallisneri reports the
instance of a woman who possessed two uteruses, one communicating
with the vagina, the other with the rectum. She had permitted
rectal copulation and had become impregnated in this manner.
Louis, the celebrated French surgeon, created a furore by a
pamphlet entitled "De partium externarum generationi
inservientium in mulieribus naturali vitiosa et morbosa
dispositione, etc.," for which he was punished by the Sorbonne,
but absolved by the Pope. He described a young lady who had no
vaginal opening, but who regularly menstruated by the rectum. She
allowed her lover to have connection with her in the only
possible way, by the rectum, which, however, sufficed for
impregnation, and at term she bore by the rectum a well-formed
child.
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