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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER IV
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The Elgin Courant (Scotland), 1858, speaks of a woman named Elspet Gordon, at Rothes, giving birth to 3 males and 2 females.
Although they were six months' births, the boys all lived until the following morning.

The girls were still-born.

One of the boys had two front teeth when born.

Dr.Dawson of Rothes is the obstetrician mentioned in this case.
The following recent instance is given with full details to illustrate the difficulties attending the births of quintuplets.

Stoker has reported the case of a healthy woman, thirty-five years old, 5 feet 1 inch high, and of slight build, whom he delivered of 5 fetuses in the seventh month of pregnancy, none of the children surviving.


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