an speaks of the case of
the expulsion of a blighted fetus at the seventh month, the living
child remaining to the full term, and being safely delivered, the
placenta following. Crisp says of a case of labor that the head of the
child was obstructed by a round body, the nature of which he was for
some time unable to determine. He managed to push the obstructing body
up and delivered a living, full-term child; this was soon followed by a
blighted fetus, which was 11 inches long, weighed 12 ounces, with a
placenta attached weighing 6 1/2 ounces. It is quite common for a
blighted fetus to be retained and expelled at term with a living child,
its twin.
Bacon speaks of twin pregnancy, with the death of one fetus at the
fourth month and the other delivered at term. Beall reports the
conception of twins, with one fetus expelled and the other retained;
Beauchamp cites a similar instance. Bothwell describes a twin labor at
term, in which one child was living and the other dead at the fifth
month and macerated. Belt reports an analogous case. Jameson gives the
history of an extraordinary case of twins in which one (dead) child was
retained in the womb for forty-nine weeks, the other having been born
alive at the expiration of nine months. Hamilton describes a case of
twins in which one fetus died from the effects of an injury between the
fourth and fifth months and the second arrived at full period. Moore
cites an instance in which one of the fetuses perished about the third
month, but was not expelled until the seventh, and the other was
carried to full term. Wilson speaks of a secondary or blighted fetus of
the third month with fatty degeneration of the membranes retained and
expelled with its living twin at the eighth month of uterogestation.
There was a case at Riga in 1839 of a robust girl who conceived in
February, and in consequence her menses ceased. In June she aborted,
but, to her dismay, soon afterward the symptoms of advanced pregnancy
appeared, and in November a full-grown child, doubtless the result of
the same impregnation as the fetus, was expelled at the fourth month.
In 1860 Schuh reported an instance before the Vienna Faculty of
Medicine in which a fetus was discharged at the third month of
pregnancy and the other twin retained until full term. The abortion was
attended with much metrorrhagia, and ten weeks afterward the movements
of the other child could be plainly felt and pregnancy continued its
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