. Manual of antenatal pathology and hygiene : the foetus. Fig. 34,—Congenital Elephantiasis. During the last pregnancy she had had several falls, followed bymore or less troublesome results. The first, a fall in the street, withbruising of the abdomen, at the fourth month, had been followedfor eight days by abdominal pains; two months later, the abdomenwas bruised again by a second traumatism ; this was succeeded byabdominal pain, a rigor, and rise in temperature ; at the seventhmonth she fell across the tramway rails in the street, again bruisingthe hypogastrium, which became the seat of a ly
. Manual of antenatal pathology and hygiene : the foetus. Fig. 34,—Congenital Elephantiasis. During the last pregnancy she had had several falls, followed bymore or less troublesome results. The first, a fall in the street, withbruising of the abdomen, at the fourth month, had been followedfor eight days by abdominal pains; two months later, the abdomenwas bruised again by a second traumatism ; this was succeeded byabdominal pain, a rigor, and rise in temperature ; at the seventhmonth she fell across the tramway rails in the street, again 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 blow onthe abdomen. Labour took place at the full term, and it was at oncenoticed that although the infant was alive and active, he had an ab- CONGENITAL ELEPHANTIASIS 303 normally large right lower limb. He showed, also, signs of hereditarysyphilis. There was marked hypertrophy of the right lower limbfrom groin
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