fterward took the breast and began to cry feebly. At six weeks
it weighed 2 pounds 2 ounces, and at ten months, 12 pounds, but was
still very weak and ill-nourished. Evans has an instance of a fetus
expelled enveloped in its membranes entire and unruptured. The
membranes were opaque and preternaturally thickened, and were opened
with a pair of scissors; strenuous efforts were made to save the child,
but to no purpose. The mother, after a short convalescence, made a good
recovery. Forman reports an instance of unruptured membranes at birth,
the delivery following a single pain, in a woman of twenty-two,
pregnant for a second time. Woodson speaks of a case of twins, one of
which was born enveloped in its secundines.

Van Bibber was called in great haste to see a patient in labor. He
reached the house in about fifteen minutes, and was told by the
midwife, a woman of experience, that she had summoned him because of
the expulsion from the womb of something the like of which she had
never seen before. She thought it must have been some variety of false
conception, and had wrapped it up in some flannel. It proved to be a
fetus enclosed in its sac, with the placenta, all having been expelled
together and intact. He told the nurse to rupture the membranes, and
the child, which had been in the unruptured sac for over twenty
minutes, began to cry. The infant lived for over a month, but
eventually died of bronchitis.

Cowger reports labor at the end of the seventh month without rupture of
the fetal sac. Macknus and Rootes speak of expulsion of the entire ovum
at the full period of gestation. Roe mentions a case of parturition
with unruptured membrane. Slusser describes the delivery of a
full-grown fetus without rupture of the membrane.

"Dry Births."--The reverse of the foregoing are those cases in which,
by reason of the deficiency of the waters, the birth is dry. Numerous
causes can be stated for such occurrences, and the reader is referred
elsewhere for them, the subject being an old one. The Ephemerides
speaks of it, and Rudolph discusses its occurrence exhaustively and
tells of the difficulties of such a labor. Burrall mentions a case of
labor without apparent liquor amnii, delivery being effected by the
forceps. Strong records an unusual obstetric case in which there was
prolongation of the pregnancy, with a large child, and entire absence
of liquor amnii. The case was also complicated with interstitial and
subserous fib