The girls
were still-born. One of the boys had two front teeth when born.
Dr. Dawson of Rothes is the obstetrician mentioned in this case.
The following recent instance is given with full details to
illustrate the difficulties attending the births of quintuplets.
Stoker has reported the case of a healthy woman, thirty-five
years old, 5 feet 1 inch high, and of slight build, whom he
delivered of 5 fetuses in the seventh month of pregnancy, none of
the children surviving. The patient's mother had on two occasions
given birth to twins. The woman herself had been married for six
years and had borne 4 children at full term, having no difficulty
in labor. When she came under observation she computed that she
had been pregnant for six months, and had had her attention
attracted to the unusually large size of her abdomen. She
complained of fixed pain in the left side of the abdomen on which
side she thought she was larger. Pains set in with regularity and
the labor lasted eight and three-quarter hours. After the rupture
of the membranes the first child presented by the shoulder.
Version was readily performed; the child was dead (recently).
Examination after the birth of the first child disclosed the
existence of more than one remaining fetus.
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