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CHAPTER VI
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There would also be the possibility that one of the children was of protracted gestation or that the other was of premature birth.

Article 312 of the Civil Code of France accords a minimum of one hundred and eighty and a maximum of three hundred days for the gestation of a viable child.

(See Protracted Gestation.) Voight is accredited with having seen a triple uterus, and there are several older parallels on record.

Thilow mentions a uterus which was divided into three small portions.
Of the different anomalous positions of the uterus, most of which are acquired, the only one that will be mentioned is that of complete prolapse of the uterus.

In this instance the organ may hang entirely out of the body and even forbid locomotion.
Of 19 cases of hernia of the uterus quoted by Debierre 13 have been observed in the inguinal region, five on the right and seven on the left side.


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