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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER II
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There is another observation of an accouchement terminating successfully twenty-three days after the loss of the amniotic fluid.

Campbell mentions delivery of a living child twelve days after rupture of the membranes.

Chesney relates the history of a double collection of waters.

Wood reports a case in which there was expulsion of a bag of waters before the rupture of the membranes.
Bailly, Chestnut, Bjering, Cowger, Duncan, and others also record premature rupture of the membranes without interruption of pregnancy.
Harris gives an instance of the membranes being expelled from the uterus a few days before delivery at the full term.

Chatard, Jr., mentions extrusion of the fetal membranes at the seventh month of pregnancy while the patient was taking a long afternoon walk, their subsequent retraction, and normal labor at term.


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