Thebault reports an instance of delivery in the erect position, with rupture of the funis at the placenta.

There was recently a rumor, probably a newspaper fabrication, that a woman while at stool in a railway car gave birth to a child which was found alive on the track afterward.
There is a curious instance on record in which a child was born in a hip-bath and narrowly escaped drowning.

The mother was a European woman aged forty, who had borne two children, the last nine years before.

She was supposed to have dropsy of the abdomen, and among other treatments was the use of a speculum and caustic applications for inflammation of the womb.

The escape of watery fluid for two days was considered evidence of the rupture of an ovarian cyst.