The left testicle in this case was so
swollen that it hung almost to the knee, and the fetal remains
removed weighed seven ounces.
Sulikowski relates an instance of congenital fetation in the
umbilicus of a girl of fourteen, who recovered after the removal
of the anomaly. Aretaeos described to the members of the medical
fraternity in Athens the case of a woman of twenty-two, who bore
two children after a seven months' pregnancy. One was very
rudimentary and only 21 inches long, and the other had an
enormous head resembling a case of hydrocephalus. On opening the
head of the second fetus, another, three inches long, was found
in the medulla oblongata, and in the cranial cavity with it were
two additional fetuses, neither of which was perfectly formed.
Broca speaks of a fetal cyst being passed in the urine of a man
of sixty- one; the cyst contained remnants of hair, bone, and
cartilage. Atlee submits quite a remarkable case of congenital
ventral gestation, the subject being a girl of six, who recovered
after the discharge of the fetal mass from the abdomen. McIntyre
speaks of a child of eleven, playing about and feeling well, but
whose abdomen progressively increased in size 1 1/2 inches each
day.
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