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CHAPTER II
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Both the mother and child did well.
In most cases there is rupture of the fetal sac into the abdominal cavity or the uterus, and the fetus is ejected into this location, from thence to be removed or carried therein many years; but there are instances in which the conception has been found in situ, as depicted in Figure 2.

A sturdy woman of thirty was executed on January 16, 1735, for the murder of her child.

It was ascertained that she had passed her catamenia about the first of the month, and thereafter had sexual intercourse with one of her fellow-prisoners.

On dissection both Fallopian tubes were found distended, and the left ovary, which bore signs of conception, was twice as large as the right.

Campbell quotes another such case in a woman of thirty-eight who for twenty years had practised her vocation as a Cyprian, and who unexpectedly conceived.


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