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Usage examples of records.

Deever records an instance of a child two years and seven months old who, with the exception of three months only, had menstruated regularly since the fourth month.

It has been our purpose to briefly summarize and to arrange in order the records of the most curious, bizarre, and abnormal cases that are found in medical literature of all ages and all languages--a thaumatographia medica.

Judging from the records of early writers, when Medicine began to struggle toward self-consciousness, it was again the same order of facts that was singled out by the attention.

Barham records a case similar to the foregoing, in which the menstruation assumed the character of periodic purpura.

Tarenta records the history of the case of a woman who menstruated and bore children when past the age of sixty.

Staples records a case of pregnancy and parturition with congenital stricture of the vagina.

Verdile records an instance of imperforate vagina in which rectovaginal wall was divided and the delivery effected through the rectum and anus.

The older observers thought this woman must have had two orifices to her womb, one of which had some connection with the stomach, as they had records of the dissection of a female in whom was found a conformation similar to this.

Elvert records a case of late pregnancy, and Henschel one of forty-six weeks, but the fetus was dead.

Journal records the history of a case of a woman of thirty-two, who had been married ten years, who acquired a strong taste for charcoal, and was ravenous for it.

Milner records an instance of remarkable tolerance of injury in a pregnant woman.

The Ephemerides records a birth as having occurred during asphyxia, and also one during an epileptic attack.

Strong records an unusual obstetric case in which there was prolongation of the pregnancy, with a large child, and entire absence of liquor amnii.

Cesarean section is quite copious, it is very seldom that we find authentic records in the writings of the older medical observers.

The works of Hippocrates, Aretxeus, Galen, Celsus, and Aetius contain nothing relative to records of successful Cesarean sections.