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Rogers mentions a fetus that was found in a man's bladder.
Bouchacourt reports the successful extirpation of the remains of a fetus from the rectum of a child of six.
Miner describes a successful excision of a congenital gestation. Modern literature is full of examples, and nearly every one of the foregoing instances could be paralleled from other sources.
Rodriguez is quoted as reporting that in July, 1891, several newspapers in the city of Mexico published, under the head of "A Man-mother," a wonderful story, accompanied by wood-cuts, of a young man from whose body a great surgeon had extracted a "perfectly developed fetus." One of these wood-cuts represented a tumor at the back of a man opened and containing a crying baby.
In commenting upon this, after reviewing several similar cases of endocymian monsters that came under his observation in Mexico, Rodriguez tells what the case which had been so grossly exaggerated by the lay journals really was: An Indian boy, aged twenty-two, presented a tumor in the sacrococcygeal region measuring 53 cm.
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