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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER III
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She was removed to a hospital, where a fetus nine inches long was removed from the rectum.
The rectal opening gradually cicatrized, the sac became obliterated, and the woman left the hospital well.
Birth Through Perineal Perforation .-- Occasionally there is perineal perforation during labor, with birth of the child through the opening.
Brown mentions a case of rupture of the perineum with birth of a child between the vaginal opening and the anus.

Cassidy reports a case of child-birth through the perineum.

A successful operation was performed fifteen days after the accident.

Dupuytren speaks of the passage of an infant through a central opening of the perineum.

Capuron, Gravis, and Lebrun all report accouchement through a perineal perforation, without alteration in the sphincter ani or the fourchet.


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