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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER III
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The infant lived for over a month, but eventually died of bronchitis.
Cowger reports labor at the end of the seventh month without rupture of the fetal sac.

Macknus and Rootes speak of expulsion of the entire ovum at the full period of gestation.

Roe mentions a case of parturition with unruptured membrane.

Slusser describes the delivery of a full-grown fetus without rupture of the membrane.
"Dry Births."-- The reverse of the foregoing are those cases in which, by reason of the deficiency of the waters, the birth is dry.

Numerous causes can be stated for such occurrences, and the reader is referred elsewhere for them, the subject being an old one.


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