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Cases of pseudocyesis in women convicted of murder are not uncommon, though most of them are imposters hoping for an extra lease of life. Croon speaks of a child seven years old on whom he performed ovariotomy for a round-celled sarcoma.
She had been well up to May, but since then she had several times been raped by a boy, in consequence of which she had constant uterine hemorrhage.
Shortly after the first coitus her abdomen began to enlarge, the breasts to develop, and the areolae to darken.
In seven months the abdomen presented the signs of pregnancy, but the cervix was soft and patulous; the sound entered three inches and was followed by some hemorrhage.
The child was well developed, the mons was covered with hair, and all the associate symptoms tended to increase the deception. Sympathetic Male Nausea of Pregnancy .-- Associated with pregnancy there are often present morning-nausea and vomiting as prominent and reliable symptoms.
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