onception. The boy was active and weighed nine
pounds. The author cites Meigs' case, and also one of Atlee's, at three
hundred and fifty-six days.

Talcott, Superintendent of the State Homeopathic Asylum for the Insane,
explained the pregnancy of an inmate who had been confined for four
years in this institution as one of protracted labor. He said that many
such cases have been reported, and that something less than two years
before he had charge of a case in which the child was born. He made the
report to the New York Senate Commission on Asylums for the Insane as
one of three years' protraction. Tidd speaks of a woman who was
delivered of a male child at term, and again in ten months delivered of
a well-developed male child weighing 7 1/4 pounds; he relates the
history of another case, in Clifton, W. Va., of a woman expecting
confinement on June 1st going over to September 16th, the fetus being
in the uterus over twelve months, and nine months after quickening was
felt.

Two extraordinary cases are mentioned, one in a woman of thirty-five,
who expected to be confined April 24, 1883. In May she had a few
labor-pains that passed away, and during the next six months she
remained about as large as usual, and was several times thought to be
in the early stages of labor. In September the os dilated until the
first and second fingers could be passed directly to the head. This
condition lasted about a month, but passed away. At times during the
last nine months of pregnancy she was almost unable to endure the
movements of the child. Finally, on the morning of November 6th, after
a pregnancy of four hundred and seventy-six days, she was delivered of
a male child weighing 13 pounds. Both the mother and child did well
despite the use of chloroform and forceps. The other case was one
lasting sixteen months and twenty days.

In a rather loose argument, Carey reckons a case of three hundred and
fifty days. Menzie gives an instance in a woman aged twenty-eight, the
mother of one child, in whom a gestation was prolonged to the
seventeenth month. The pregnancy was complicated by carcinoma of the
uterus. Ballard describes the case of a girl of sixteen years and six
months, whose pregnancy, the result of a single intercourse, lasted
three hundred and sixty days. Her labor was short and easy for a
primipara, and the child was of the average size. Mackenzie cites the
instance of a woman aged thirty-two, a primipara, who had been marri