It had an incessant, wailing, low cry, always of evil augury in new-born infants.
The child died shortly after.

The daily discharge was about 5 ounces, and had lasted sixty-eight days, making 21 pints in all.

The same accident of rupture of the membranes long before labor happened to the patient's mother.
Bardt speaks of labor twenty-three days after the flow of the waters; and Cobleigh one of seventeen days; Bradley relates the history of a case of rupture of the membranes six weeks before delivery.

Rains cites an instance in which gestation continued three months after rupture of the membranes, the labor-pains lasting thirty-six hours.

Griffiths speaks of rupture of the amniotic sac at about the sixth month of pregnancy with no untoward interruption of the completion of gestation and with delivery of a living child.