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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER III
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Stapedius writes to a friend of a fetus being found dead between the thighs of a woman who expired suddenly of an acute disease.

Schenk mentions that of a woman, dying at 5 P.M., a child having two front teeth was born at 3 A.M.

Veslingius tells of a woman dying of epilepsy on June 6, 1630, from whose body, two days later, issued a child.

Wolfius relates the case of a woman dying in labor in 1677.

Abdominal movements being seen six hours after death, Cesarean section was suggested, but its performance was delayed, and eighteen hours after a child was spontaneously born.


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