e of birth it was wrapped up in a
box and placed before the fire. Brouzet speaks of living births of from
five to six months' pregnancy, and Kopp speaks of a six months' child
which lived four days. The Ephemerides contains accounts of living
premature births.

Newinton describes a pregnancy of five months terminating with the
birth of twins, one of whom lived twenty minutes and the other fifteen.
The first was 11 1/2 inches long, and weighed 1 pound 3 1/2 ounces, and
the other was 11 inches long, and weighed 1 pound. There is a recent
instance of premature birth following a pregnancy of between five and a
half and six months, the infant weighing 955 grams. One month after
birth, through the good offices of the wet-nurse and M. Villemin, who
attended the child and who invented a "couveuse" for the occasion, it
measured 38 cm. long.

Moore is accredited with the trustworthy report of the case of a woman
who bore a child at the end of the fifth month weighing 1 1/2 pounds
and measuring 9 inches. It was first nourished by dropping liquid food
into its mouth; and at the age of fifteen months it was healthy and
weighed 18 pounds. Eikam saw a case of abortion at the fifth month in
which the fetus was 6 inches in length and weighed about 8 ounces. The
head was sufficiently developed and the cranial bones considerably
advanced in ossification. He tied the cord and placed the fetus in warm
water. It drew up its feet and arms and turned its head from one side
to the other, opening its mouth and trying to breathe. It continued in
this wise for an hour, the action of the heart being visible ten
minutes after the movements ceased. From its imperfectly developed
genitals it was supposed to have been a female. Professor J. Muller, to
whom it was shown, said that it was not more than four months old, and
this coincided with the mother's calculation.

Villemin before the Societe Obstetricale et Gynecologique reported the
case of a two-year-old child, born in the sixth month of pregnancy.
That the child had not had six months of intrauterine life he could
vouch, the statement being borne out by the last menstrual period of
the mother, the date of the first fetal movements, the child's weight,
which was 30 1/2 ounces, and its appearance. Budin had had this infant
under observation from the beginning and corroborated Villemin's
statements. He had examined infants of six or seven months that had
cried and lived a few days, and had found