with child by her master, in order to hide her knavery
came to London in September, where she lay in by stealth, and being
recovered, returned home. In December of the same year she was
unexpectedly delivered of another child, a product of superfetation,
which proclaimed the crime that she had so cunningly concealed before.

Marcellus Donatus, Goret, Schacher, and Mauriceau mention
superfetation. In the Academie des Sciences, at Paris, in 1702, there
was mentioned the case of a woman who was delivered of a boy; in the
placenta was discovered a sort of bladder which was found to contain a
female fetus of the age of from four to five months; and in 1729,
before the same society, there was an instance in which two fetuses
were born a day apart, one aged forty days and the other at full term.
From the description, it does not seem possible that either of these
were blighted twin pregnancies. Ruysch gives an account of a surgeon's
wife at Amsterdam, in 1686, who was delivered of a strong child which
survived, and, six hours after, of a small embryo, the funis of which
was full of hydatids and the placenta as large and thick as one of
three months. Ruysch accompanies his description with an illustrative
figure. At Lyons, in 1782, Benoite Franquet was unexpectedly delivered
of a child seven months old; three weeks later she experienced symptoms
indicative of the existence of another fetus, and after five months and
sixteen days she was delivered of a remarkably strong and healthy child.

Baudeloque speaks of a case of superfetation observed by Desgranges in
Lyons in 1780. After the birth of the first infant the lochia failed to
flow, no milk appeared in the breasts, and the belly remained large. In
about three weeks after the accouchement she had connection with her
husband, and in a few days felt fetal movements. A second child was
born at term, sixty-eight days after the first; and in 1782 both
children were living. A woman of Arles was delivered on November 11,
1796, of a child at term; she had connection with her husband four days
after; the lochia stopped, and the milk did not flow after this
intercourse. About one and a half months after this she felt quickening
again, and naturally supposed that she had become impregnated by the
first intercourse after confinement; but five months after the first
accouchement she was delivered of another child at term, the result of
a superfetation. Milk in abundance made its appearanc