ysicians by saying that he expected to find a
rudimentary fetus in a scrotal tumor placed in his hands for operation.
His diagnosis proved correct, and brought him resounding praise, and
all wondered as to his reasons for expecting a fetal tumor. It appears
that he had read with care a report by Fatti of an operation on the
scrotum of a child which had increased in size as the child grew, and
was found to contain the ribs, the vertebral column, the lower
extremities as far as the knees, and the two orbits of a fetus; and
also an account of a similar operation performed by Wendt of Breslau on
a Silesian boy of seven. The left testicle in this case was so swollen
that it hung almost to the knee, and the fetal remains removed weighed
seven ounces.

Sulikowski relates an instance of congenital fetation in the umbilicus
of a girl of fourteen, who recovered after the removal of the anomaly.
Aretaeos described to the members of the medical fraternity in Athens
the case of a woman of twenty-two, who bore two children after a seven
months' pregnancy. One was very rudimentary and only 21 inches long,
and the other had an enormous head resembling a case of hydrocephalus.
On opening the head of the second fetus, another, three inches long,
was found in the medulla oblongata, and in the cranial cavity with it
were two additional fetuses, neither of which was perfectly formed.

Broca speaks of a fetal cyst being passed in the urine of a man of
sixty-one; the cyst contained remnants of hair, bone, and cartilage.
Atlee submits quite a remarkable case of congenital ventral gestation,
the subject being a girl of six, who recovered after the discharge of
the fetal mass from the abdomen. McIntyre speaks of a child of eleven,
playing about and feeling well, but whose abdomen progressively
increased in size 1 1/2 inches each day. After ten days there was a
large fluctuating mass on the right side; the abdomen was opened and
the mass enucleated; it was found to contain a fetal mass weighing
nearly five pounds, and in addition ten pounds of fluid were removed.
The child made an early recovery. Rogers mentions a fetus that was
found in a man's bladder. Bouchacourt reports the successful
extirpation of the remains of a fetus from the rectum of a child of
six. Miner describes a successful excision of a congenital gestation.

Modern literature is full of examples, and nearly every one of the
foregoing instances could be paralleled from other sou