36/99 The infant lived for over a month, but eventually died of bronchitis. 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. Numerous causes can be stated for such occurrences, and the reader is referred elsewhere for them, the subject being an old one. |