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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER VI
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The examiners displayed much desire to see her after puberty to note the disposition of the menstrual flow, but no further observation of her case can be found.
Fournier narrates that he was called by three students, who had been trying to deliver a woman for five days.

He found a well-constituted woman of twenty-two in horrible agony, who they said had not had a passage of the bowels for eight days, so he prescribed an enema.

The student who was directed to give the enema found to his surprise that there was no anus, but by putting his finger in the vagina he could discern the floating end of the rectum, which was full of feces.

There was an opening in this suspended rectum about the size of an undistended anus.

Lavage was practiced by a cannula introduced through the opening, and a great number of cherry stones agglutinated with feces followed the water, and labor was soon terminated.


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