Brown speaks of protrusion of the membranes from the vulva several weeks before confinement.

Davies relates an instance in which there was a copious watery discharge during pregnancy not followed by labor.

There is a case mentioned in which an accident and an inopportune dose of ergot at the fifth month of pregnancy were followed by rupture of the amniotic sac, and subsequently a constant flow of watery fluid continued for the remaining three months of pregnancy.

The fetus died at the time, and was born in an advanced state of putrefaction, by version, three months after the accident.

The mother died five months after of carcinoma of the uterus.