Gaetano-Nocito, cited by Philipeaux, has the
history of a taken with a great pain in the right hypochondrium,
and from which issued subsequently fetal bones and a mass of
macerated embryo. His mother had had several double pregnancies,
and from the length of the respective tibiae one of the fetuses
seemed to be of two months' and the other of three months'
intrauterine life. The man died five years after the abscess had
burst spontaneously.
Brodie speaks of a case in which fetal remains were taken from
the abdomen of a girl of two and one-half years. Gaither
describes a child of two years and nine months, supposed to be
affected with ascites, who died three hours after the physician's
arrival. In its abdomen was found a fetus weighing almost two
pounds and connected to the child by a cord resembling an
umbilical cord. This child was healthy for about nine months, and
had a precocious longing for ardent spirits, and drank freely an
hour before its death.
Blundell says that he knew "a boy who was literally and without
evasion with child, for the fetus was contained in a sac
communicating with the abdomen and was connected to the side of
the cyst by a short umbilical cord; nor did the fetus make its
appearance until the boy was eight or ten years old, when after
much enlargement of pregnancy and subsequent flooding the boy
died.
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