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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

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Delivery was effected by instrumental aid.

The tumor of 70 pounds was removed and death followed.

McGillicuddy mentions a case of ovarian cyst containing 132 pounds of fluid.

The patient was a woman of twenty-eight whose abdomen at the umbilicus measured 69 inches in circumference and 47 inches from the sternum to the pubes.

Before the operation the great tumor hung down as far as the knees, the abdominal wall chafing the thighs.


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