A textbook of obstetrics . Transactions of Meeting Bd. xxx, S. 401. S. 500. 3 fb;d. f Bd. x. of German Naturalists and Physicians, 1886. Berlin, 5 Grafe, loc. cit. Virch Archi Bd. c, S. 256. THE DISEASES OF THE FETUS. 165 Anasarca.—General anasarca of the fetus is occasionally distention of the fetal skin may reach such dimensions thatthe expulsion of the child becomes exceedingly Suchchildren are, however, usually born prematurely from the fourthto the eighth month, and are, as a rule, still-born, although casesare recorded in which death only occurred some little time af
A textbook of obstetrics . Transactions of Meeting Bd. xxx, S. 401. S. 500. 3 fb;d. f Bd. x. of German Naturalists and Physicians, 1886. Berlin, 5 Grafe, loc. cit. Virch Archi Bd. c, S. 256. THE DISEASES OF THE FETUS. 165 Anasarca.—General anasarca of the fetus is occasionally distention of the fetal skin may reach such dimensions thatthe expulsion of the child becomes exceedingly Suchchildren are, however, usually born prematurely from the fourthto the eighth month, and are, as a rule, still-born, although casesare recorded in which death only occurred some little time afterbirth. The causes of this condition must be various. It hasbeen attributed to anasarca of the mother, to syphilis, to absenceof the thoracic duct; 2 in one instance to leukemia of the fetus,3in another to obstruction of the umbilical The serousinfiltration of the skin is usually accompanied by a collection offluid in the abdominal and pleural cavities, and the membranesand placenta are often markedly Congenital cystic elephantiasis. Congenital Cystic Elephantiasis.—In this disease there is agreat overgrowth of the subcutaneous connective tissue all overthe body, and at intervals in the hypertrophied tissue there arecysts varying in size. Malformations of a grave character arecommonly associated with the disease. On this account, andbecause the subjects of the disease have all been born prema-turely, the infants scarcely ever survive their birth. One child,however, lived thirty minutes and another was twenty months 1 Keiller, Edinburgh Med. and Surg. Jour., April, 1855. 2 The Diseases of the Fetus, Ballantyne, Edinburgh, 1895, 2 vols. Com-plete bibliography. 3 Klebs, Prager med. Wochens., 1878, No. 49. 4 Breslauer Klin., Bd. i, S. 260. 166 PREGNANCY. old when the case was reported. Ballantyne l has collected morethan eighteen cases of this very rare disease. Spontaneous Fractures in Utero.—The fetal bones may bebroken by external violence, or a child
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