A system of obstetrics . ve and separate below the umbilicus,it receives the name of deradelphus and thora-delphus. The appended illustration of a de-radelphic monoeeplialus is from a specimenplaced in the museum of the College ofPhysicians by Dr. The womanwho gave birth was a multipara, and wastaken in labor about the time of the sup-pi ised end of her pregnancy, and Dr. War-ringtons pupil, Dr. J. Pembroke Thorn, ofStevensburg, Va., was sent for to attend T. shortly after his arrival found four feetpresenting in the vagina, and, thinking theybelonged to separate twins, en
A system of obstetrics . ve and separate below the umbilicus,it receives the name of deradelphus and thora-delphus. The appended illustration of a de-radelphic monoeeplialus is from a specimenplaced in the museum of the College ofPhysicians by Dr. The womanwho gave birth was a multipara, and wastaken in labor about the time of the sup-pi ised end of her pregnancy, and Dr. War-ringtons pupil, Dr. J. Pembroke Thorn, ofStevensburg, Va., was sent for to attend T. shortly after his arrival found four feetpresenting in the vagina, and, thinking theybelonged to separate twins, endeavored to push 11]) two of them ; in this effort he failed, Deradelphus* (Mutter Museunand SO did Dr. Warrington, who was called by CoUege of Physicians, Philada.).Dr. T. when this difficulty was manifested. Then traction was madeupon all four of the lower limbs, and delivery was made. 1 Summary of the Transactions of the College of Physicians, vol. i., New Series. 2 The name is from tiepfj, neck, and a6efyogf 782 ANOMALIES OF THE FORCES OF LABOR. ((jjJtalo-thoracojjagus.—Figs. 306 and 307 l are front and side viewsof a monstrosity occurring in the practice of Dr. J. B. Sterley—nowof Reading, Pa., then living in St. Marys, Elk county—February 23,1878. The mother was a German, eighteen years of age, and hadborne a child before this pregnancy; the labor, which was thought amonth premature, was protracted, the child living when it began, butdying during its course. The head presented and the delivery wasspontaneous: the child weighed six pounds ten ounces. It was a double female infant, united by head, neck, and thorax. Thoracesunited by anterior surfaces. Union of head and neck in a manner toshow a complete face with ears on one side; on the other two cars in Fig. 306.
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