eration, May 2d:
Uterus found empty, cavity 14 1/2 cm. long. Median incision in
abdominal wall; cyst walls exposed; seen to be very slight and filled
with enormous vessels, some greater than the little finger. On seizing
the wall one of these vessels burst, and the hemorrhage was only
rendered greater on attempting to secure it, so great was the
friability of the walls. The cyst was therefore rapidly opened and the
child extracted by the foot. Hemorrhage was restrained first by
pressure of the hands, then by pressure-forceps and ligatures. The
walls of the cyst were sewn to the margins of the abdominal wound, the
edge of the placenta being included in the suture. A wound was thus
formed 10 cm. in diameter, with the placenta for its base; it was
filled with iodoform and salicylic gauze. The operation lasted an hour,
and the child, a boy weighing 5 1/2 pounds, after a brief period of
respiratory difficulties, was perfectly vigorous. There was at first a
slight facial asymmetry and a depression on the left upper jaw caused
by the point of the left shoulder, against which it had been pressed in
the cyst; these soon disappeared, and on the nineteenth day the boy
weighed 12 pounds. The maternal wound was not dressed till May 13th,
when it was washed with biniodid, 1:4000. The placenta came away
piecemeal between May 25th and June 2d. The wound healed up, and the
patient got up on the forty-third day, having suckled her infant from
the first day after its birth."

Quite recently Werder has investigated the question of the ultimate
fate of ectopic children delivered alive. He has been able to obtain
the record of 40 cases. Of these, 18 died within a week after birth; 5
within a month; 1 died at six months of bronchopneumonia; 1 at seven
months of diarrhea; 2 at eleven months, 1 from croup; 1 at eighteen
months from cholera infantum--making a total of 26 deaths and leaving
14 children to be accounted for. Of these, 5 were reported as living
and well after operation, with no subsequent report; 1 was strong and
healthy after three weeks, but there has been no report since; 1 was
well at six months, then was lost sight of; 1 was well at the Last
report; 2 live and are well at one year; 2 are living and well at two
years; 1 (Beisone's case) is well at seven years; and 1 (Tait's case)
is well at fourteen and one-half years. The list given on pages 60 and
61 has been quoted by Hirst and Dorland. It contains data relative to
17 cases