The hygienic surroundings for the operation were not of the best, as the woman lived in a cellar.

Tait's method of performing the operation was determined upon and successfully performed.

Convalescence was prompt, and in three weeks the case was dismissed.

The child was a female of 7 1/2 pounds which inherited the deformities of its mother.
It thrived for nine and a half months, when it died of angina Ludovici.
Figure 15 represents the mother and child.
Harris gives an account of an operation upon a rachitic dwarf who was impregnated by a large man, a baby weighing 14 pounds and measuring 20 inches being delivered by the knife.

St.Braun gives the account of a Porro-Cesarean operation in the case of a rachitic dwarf 3 feet 10 inches tall, in which both the mother and child recovered.