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ten years and who always had been regular in menstruation. The menses
ceased on April 28, 1888, and she felt the child for the first time in
September. She had false pains in January, 1889, and labor did not
begin until March 8th, lasting sixty-six hours. If all these statements
are correct, the probable duration of this pregnancy was eleven months
and ten days.

Lundie relates an example of protracted gestation of eleven months, in
which an anencephalous fetus was born; and Martin of Birmingham
describes a similar case of ten and a half months' duration.
Raux-Tripier has seen protraction to the thirteenth month. Enguin
reports an observation of an accouchement of twins after a pregnancy
that had been prolonged for eleven months. Resnikoff mentions a
pregnancy of eleven months' duration in an anemic secundipara. The case
had been under his observation from the beginning of pregnancy; the
patient would not submit to artificial termination at term, which he
advised. After a painful labor of twenty-four hours a macerated and
decomposed child was born, together with a closely-adherent placenta.
Tarnier reports an instance of partus serotinus in which the product of
conception was carried in the uterus forty days after term. The fetus
was macerated but not putrid, and the placenta had undergone fatty
degeneration. At a recent meeting of the Chicago Gynecological Society,
Dr. F. A. Stahl reported the case of a German-Bohemian woman in which
the fifth pregnancy terminated three hundred and two days after the
last menstruation. Twenty days before there had occurred pains similar
to those of labor, but they gradually ceased. The sacral promontory was
exaggerated, and the anteroposterior pelvic diameter of the inlet in
consequence diminished. The fetus was large and occupied the first
position. Version was with difficulty effected and the passage of the
after-coming head through the superior strait required expression and
traction, during which the child died. The mother suffered a deep
laceration of the perineum involving an inch of the wall of the rectum.

Among others reporting instances of protracted pregnancy are Collins,
eleven months; Desbrest, eighteen months; Henderson, fifteen months;
Jefferies, three hundred and fifty-eight days, and De la Vergne gives
the history of a woman who carried an infant in her womb for
twenty-nine months; this case may possibly belong under the head of
fetus long retained in the uterus