Devilliers considers this question from both the obstetric and medicolegal points of view.

Hyneaux mentions forcible accouchement practised on both the dead and the dying.
Rogowicz advocates artificial delivery by the natural channel in place of Cesarian section in cases of pending or recent death, and Thevenot discussed this question at length at the International Medico-Legal Congress in 1878.

Duer presented the question of postmortem delivery in this country.
Kelly reports the history of a woman of forty who died in her eighth pregnancy, and who was delivered of a female child by version and artificial means.

Artificial respiration was successfully practised on the child, although fifteen minutes had elapsed from the death of the mother to its extraction.

Driver relates the history of a woman of thirty-five, who died in the eighth month of gestation, and who was delivered postmortem by the vagina, manual means only being used.