imacy of an infant; the Scottish law, three hundred days; and
the Prussian law, three hundred and one days.

There are numerous cases recorded by the older writers. Amman has one
of twelve months' duration; Enguin, one of twelve months'; Buchner, a
case of twelve months'; Benedictus, one of fourteen months'; de Blegny,
one of nineteen months'; Marteau, Osiander, and others of forty-two and
forty-four weeks'; and Stark's Archives, one of forty-five weeks',
living, and also another case of forty-four weeks'. An incredible case
is recorded of an infant which lived after a three years' gestation.
Instances of twelve months' duration are also recorded. Jonston quotes
Paschal in relating an instance of birth after pregnancy of
twenty-three months; Aventium, one after two years; and Mercurialis, a
birth after a four years' gestation--which is, of course, beyond belief.

Thormeau writes from Tours, 1580, of a case of gestation prolonged to
the twenty-third month, and Santorini, at Venice, in 1721, describes a
similar case, the child reaching adult life. Elvert records a case of
late pregnancy, and Henschel one of forty-six weeks, but the fetus was
dead. Schneider cites an instance of three hundred and eight days'
duration. Campbell says that Simpson had cases of three hundred and
nineteen, three hundred and thirty-two, and three hundred and
thirty-six days'; Meigs had one of four hundred and twenty. James Reid,
in a table of 500 mature births, gives 14 as being from three hundred
and two to three hundred and fifteen days'.

Not so long ago a jury rendered a verdict of guilty of fornication and
bastardy when it was alleged that the child was born three hundred and
seventeen days after intercourse. Taylor relates a case of pregnancy in
which the wife of a laborer went to America three hundred and
twenty-two days before the birth. Jaffe describes an instance of the
prolongation of pregnancy for three hundred and sixty-five days, in
which the developments and measurements corresponded to the length of
protraction. Bryan speaks of a woman of twenty-five who became pregnant
on February 10, 1876, and on June 17th felt motion. On July 28th she
was threatened with miscarriage, and by his advice the woman weaned the
child at the breast. She expected to be confined the middle of
November, 1876, but the expected event did not occur until April 26,
1877, nine months after the quickening and four hundred and forty days
from the time of c