ing to twenty-one months; and 1 of one
hundred and thirty-five days' pregnancy surviving to eighty years.
Maisonneuve describes a case in which abortion took place at four and a
half months; he found the fetus in its membranes two hours after
delivery, and, on laying the membranes open, saw that it was living. He
applied warmth, and partly succeeded in restoring it; for a few minutes
respiratory movements were performed regularly, but it died in six
hours. Taylor quotes Carter concerning the case of a fetus of five
months which cried directly after it was born, and in the half hour it
lived it tried frequently to breathe. He also quotes Davies, mentioning
an instance of a fetus of five months, which lived twelve hours,
weighing 2 pounds, and measuring 12 inches, and which cried vigorously.
The pupillary membrane was entire, the testes had not descended, and
the head was well covered with hair. Usher speaks of a woman who in
1876 was delivered of 2 male children on the one hundred and
thirty-ninth day; both lived for an hour; the first weighed 10 ounces 6
drams and measured 9 3/4 inches; the other 10 ounces 7 drams, with the
same length as the first. Routh speaks of a Mrs. F----, aged
thirty-eight, who had borne 9 children and had had 3 miscarriages, the
last conception terminating as such. Her husband was away, and returned
October 9, 1869. She did not again see her husband until the 3d or 4th
of January. The date of quickening was not observed, and the child was
born June 8, 1870. During gestation she was much frightened by a rat.
The child was weak, the testes undescended, and it lived but eighteen
days, dying of symptoms of atrophy. The parents were poor, of excellent
character, and although, according to the evidence, this pregnancy
lasted but twenty-two weeks and two days, there was absolutely no
reason to suspect infidelity.

Ruttel speaks of a child of five months who lived twenty-four hours;
and he saw male twins born at the sixth month weighing 3 pounds each
who were alive and healthy a year after. Barker cites the case of a
female child born on the one hundred and fifty-eighth day that weighed
1 pound and was 11 inches long. It had rudimentary nails, very little
hair on the head, its eyelids were closed, and the skin much shriveled;
it did not suckle properly, and did not walk until nineteen months old.
Three and a half years after, the child was healthy and thriving, but
weighed only 29 1/2 pounds. At the tim