Bonet tells of a woman, who died in Brussels in 1633, who, undelivered, expired in convulsions on Thursday.

On Friday abdominal movements in the corpse were seen, and on Sunday a dead child was found hanging between the thighs.

According to Aveling, Herman of Berne reports the instance of a young lady whose body was far advanced in putrefaction, from which was expelled an unbroken ovum containing twins.

Even the placenta showed signs of decomposition.
Naumann relates the birth of a child on the second day after the death of the mother.

Richter of Weissenfels, in 1861, reported the case of a woman who died in convulsions, and sixty hours after death an eight months' fetus came away.