After ten days there was a large fluctuating mass on the
right side; the abdomen was opened and the mass enucleated; it
was found to contain a fetal mass weighing nearly five pounds,
and in addition ten pounds of fluid were removed. The child made
an early recovery. Rogers mentions a fetus that was found in a
man's bladder. Bouchacourt reports the successful extirpation of
the remains of a fetus from the rectum of a child of six. Miner
describes a successful excision of a congenital gestation.
Modern literature is full of examples, and nearly every one of
the foregoing instances could be paralleled from other sources.
Rodriguez is quoted as reporting that in July, 1891, several
newspapers in the city of Mexico published, under the head of "A
Man-mother," a wonderful story, accompanied by wood-cuts, of a
young man from whose body a great surgeon had extracted a
"perfectly developed fetus." One of these wood-cuts represented a
tumor at the back of a man opened and containing a crying baby.
In commenting upon this, after reviewing several similar cases of
endocymian monsters that came under his observation in Mexico,
Rodriguez tells what the case which had been so grossly
exaggerated by the lay journals really was: An Indian boy, aged
twenty-two, presented a tumor in the sacrococcygeal region
measuring 53 cm.
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