. Manual of antenatal pathology and hygiene : the foetus. was the result of the seventh pregnancy of a woman, age thirty-two,who had enjoyed good health, but who had been married when onlyfifteen years old. All her pregnancies had gone to the full term, allthe infants had been born alive, and all had been fed at the child had died at thirteen months from convulsions, and oneat one month from bowel-hives. During the pregnancy whichended in the birth of the diseased foetus, the mother had suileredmore from vomiting than on any other occasion, and had not felt. FCKTAL BOXE DISEASE 339
. Manual of antenatal pathology and hygiene : the foetus. was the result of the seventh pregnancy of a woman, age thirty-two,who had enjoyed good health, but who had been married when onlyfifteen years old. All her pregnancies had gone to the full term, allthe infants had been born alive, and all had been fed at the child had died at thirteen months from convulsions, and oneat one month from bowel-hives. During the pregnancy whichended in the birth of the diseased foetus, the mother had suileredmore from vomiting than on any other occasion, and had not felt. FCKTAL BOXE DISEASE 339 fcetal movements so strongly. There was hydramnios; the infantwas dead when born, but must have died during delivery, as foetalmovements were felt at the beginning of the labour. Tlie umbilicalcord was only a foot in length. There was partial placenta pnuxia,which caused considerable haemorrhage during labour, and wasprobably the cause oi the infants death. The father was a healthyman, but much addicted to the use of alcohol in There wasno family history of bone disease. The fcetus, a female, weighed2160 grms., and its length with the lower limbs in the position seenin Fig. 47 was 38 cms.; the distance from finger-tip to finger-tipwith the arms extended was 32 cms. The occipito-frontal circum-ference of the head was 33 cms., and the occipito-mental, 37 was evident at a glance that the infant was abnormal. The lowerlimbs were fixed in an unnatural position; the thighs were sharplyabducted and passed outwards almost at right angles to the pelvis,t
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