She thought it must have been
some variety of false conception, and had wrapped it up in some
flannel. It proved to be a fetus enclosed in its sac, with the
placenta, all having been expelled together and intact. He told
the nurse to rupture the membranes, and the child, which had been
in the unruptured sac for over twenty minutes, began to cry. The
infant lived for over a month, but eventually died of bronchitis.
Cowger reports labor at the end of the seventh month without
rupture of the fetal sac. Macknus and Rootes speak of expulsion
of the entire ovum at the full period of gestation. Roe mentions
a case of parturition with unruptured membrane. Slusser describes
the delivery of a full-grown fetus without rupture of the
membrane.
"Dry Births."--The reverse of the foregoing are those cases in
which, by reason of the deficiency of the waters, the birth is
dry. Numerous causes can be stated for such occurrences, and the
reader is referred elsewhere for them, the subject being an old
one. The Ephemerides speaks of it, and Rudolph discusses its
occurrence exhaustively and tells of the difficulties of such a
labor. Burrall mentions a case of labor without apparent liquor
amnii, delivery being effected by the forceps.
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