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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER XIV
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There is mentioned, as from the Leicester Assizes, the trial of George Baggerly for execution of a villainous design on his wife.

In jealousy he "had sewed up her private parts." Recently, before the New York Academy of Medicine, Collier reported a case of pregnancy in a woman presenting nympha-infibulation.

The patient sought the physician's advice in the summer of 1894, while suffering from uterine disease, and being five weeks pregnant.

She was a German woman of twenty-eight, had been married several years, and was the mother of several children.

Collier examined her and observed two holes in the nymphae.


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