. Manual of antenatal pathology and hygiene : the foetus. rmation to be obtained regarding thecharacter of the pregnancy which ends in the birth of an infant withelephantiasis; but one of iloncorvos cases formed an importantexception. In 1895, Dr. Jloncorvo (Eio de Janeiro) kindly sent mea photograph of a little patient suffering from congenital elephanti- .302 ANTKNATAI. ^ AM) IIVCilKNK asis, which is repMiducLd liere (vide Fig. ?A); aiul I coimuuiiicatedthe details of the case to the Ediiiburgh Obstetrical Society at itsDecember meeting {Trans. Edinh. Ohst. Soc, xxi. 25, liSOG). Th
. Manual of antenatal pathology and hygiene : the foetus. rmation to be obtained regarding thecharacter of the pregnancy which ends in the birth of an infant withelephantiasis; but one of iloncorvos cases formed an importantexception. In 1895, Dr. Jloncorvo (Eio de Janeiro) kindly sent mea photograph of a little patient suffering from congenital elephanti- .302 ANTKNATAI. ^ AM) IIVCilKNK asis, which is repMiducLd liere (vide Fig. ?A); aiul I coimuuiiicatedthe details of the case to the Ediiiburgh Obstetrical Society at itsDecember meeting {Trans. Edinh. Ohst. Soc, xxi. 25, liSOG). Theinfant was a male, of mixed race, five months old. The father hadsuliercd from acquired syphilis, and on several occasions had liadlynipliangitic attacks affecting the limbs, and principally the mother, a half-breed like her husband, had had seven whom four (the first, second, fourth, and fifth) were already nursing her second last infant she had been attacked li\-lymphangitis in the left breast, going on to FlK. 34.—Congenital During the last pregnancy she had had several falls, followed by imore or less troublesome results. The fiist, a fall in the street, withbruising of the abdomen, at the fourth month, had been followed for eight days by abdominal pains; two months later, the abdomen Iwas bruised again by a second traumatism ; this was succeeded by ?abdominal pain, a rigor, and rise in temjierature ; at the seventh month she fell across the tramway rails in the street, agaiii bruisingthe hypogastrium, which became the seat of a lymphangitic attack,:going on to suppuration and fever of a remittent type, and lastingabout a week; again, at the eighth month, she received a I)low onthe al)domen. Labour took i)lace at the full term, and it was at oncenoticed that although the infant was alive and active, he had an ab- CONGENITAL ELEPHANTIASIS :,0:5 normally large right lower limb. He showed, also, signs of hered
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