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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER III
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She allowed her lover to have connection with her in the only possible way, by the rectum, which, however, sufficed for impregnation, and at term she bore by the rectum a well-formed child.
Hunter speaks of a case of pregnancy in a woman with a double vagina, who was delivered at the seventh month by the rectum.

Mekeln and Andrews give instances of parturition through the anus.

Morisani describes a case of extrauterine pregnancy with tubal rupture and discharge into the culdesac, in which there was delivery by the rectum.
After an attack of severe abdominal pain, followed by hemorrhage, the woman experienced an urgent desire to empty the rectum.

The fetal movements ceased, and a recurrence of these symptoms led the patient to go to stool, at which she passed blood and a seromucoid fluid.

She attempted manually to remove the offending substances from the rectum, and in consequence grasped the leg of a fetus.


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