ed with the
mother by the umbilical cord. The interment was stopped, and Mayer was
called to examine the body, but with negative results, though the signs
of death were not plainly visible for a woman dead fifty-eight hours.
By its development the body of the fetus confirmed the mother's account
of a pregnancy of twenty-one weeks. Mayer satisfies himself at least
that the mother was in a trance at the time of delivery and died soon
afterward.

Moritz gives the instance of a woman dying in pregnancy, undelivered,
who happened to be disinterred several days after burial. The body was
in an advanced state of decomposition, and a fetus was found in the
coffin. It was supposed that the pressure of gas in the mother's body
had forced the fetus from the uterus. Ostmann speaks of a woman
married five months, who was suddenly seized with rigors, headache, and
vomiting. For a week she continued to do her daily work, and in
addition was ill-treated by her husband. She died suddenly without
having any abdominal pain or any symptoms indicative of abortion. The
body was examined twenty-four hours after death and was seen to be
dark, discolored, and the abdomen distended. There was no sanguineous
discharge from the genitals, but at the time of raising the body to
place it in the coffin, a fetus, with the umbilical cord, escaped from
the vagina. There seemed to have been a rapid putrefaction in this
ease, generating enough pressure of gas to expel the fetus as well as
the uterus from the body. This at least is the view taken by Hoffman
and others in the solution of these strange cases.

Antepartum Crying of the Child.--There are on record fabulous cases of
children crying in the uterus during pregnancy, and all sorts of
unbelievable stories have been constructed from these reported
occurrences. Quite possible, however, and worthy of belief are the
cases in which the child has been heard to cry during the progress of
parturition--that is, during delivery. Jonston speaks of infants
crying in the womb, and attempts a scientific explanation of the fact.
He also quotes the following lines in reference to this subject:--

"Mirandum foetus nlaterna clausus in alvo Dicitur insuetos ore dedisse
sonos. Causa subest; doluit se angusta sede telleri Et cupiit magnae
cernere moliis opus. Aut quia quaerendi studio vis fessa parentum
Aucupii aptas innuit esse manus."

The Ephemerides gives examples of the child hiccoughing in the uterus.
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