Bartholinus is accredited with the
following: Three midwives failing to deliver a woman, she died,
and forty-eight hours after death her abdomen swelled to such an
extent as to burst her grave-clothes, and a male child, dead, was
seen issuing from the vagina. Bonet tells of a woman, who died in
Brussels in 1633, who, undelivered, expired in convulsions on
Thursday. On Friday abdominal movements in the corpse were seen,
and on Sunday a dead child was found hanging between the thighs.
According to Aveling, Herman of Berne reports the instance of a
young lady whose body was far advanced in putrefaction, from
which was expelled an unbroken ovum containing twins. Even the
placenta showed signs of decomposition. Naumann relates the birth
of a child on the second day after the death of the mother.
Richter of Weissenfels, in 1861, reported the case of a woman who
died in convulsions, and sixty hours after death an eight months'
fetus came away. Stapedius writes to a friend of a fetus being
found dead between the thighs of a woman who expired suddenly of
an acute disease. Schenk mentions that of a woman, dying at 5
P.M., a child having two front teeth was born at 3 A.M.
Veslingius tells of a woman dying of epilepsy on June 6, 1630,
from whose body, two days later, issued a child.
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