Clericus cites an example of life for five days in a child without a cerebrum.

Heysham records the birth of a child without a cerebrum and remarks that it was kept alive for six days.

There was a child born alive in Italy in 1831 without a brain or a cerebellum--in fact, no cranial cavity--and yet it lived eleven hours.

A somewhat similar case is recorded in the last century.

In the Philosophical Transactions there is mentioned a child virtually born without a head who lived four days; and Le Duc records a case of a child born without brain, cerebellum, or medulla oblongata, and who lived half an hour.
Brunet describes an anencephalous boy born at term who survived his birth.