Not as new

Usage examples of older.

Many of the older writers mention this form of fetation as a curiosity, but offer no explanation as to its cause.

Among the older naturalists, such as Pliny and Aristotle, and even in the older historians, whose scope included natural as well as civil and political history, the atypic and bizarre, and especially the aberrations of form or function of the generative organs, caught the eye most quickly.

For the rest, we doubt not that the modern reporter is, to be mild, quite as much of a myth-maker as his elder brother, especially if we find modern instances that are essentially like the older cases reported in reputable journals or books, and by men presumably honest.

In our collection we have endeavored, so far as possible, to cite similar cases from the older and from the more recent literature.

While some are simply examples of vicarious or compensatory menstruation, and were so explained even by the older writers, there are many that are physiologic curiosities of considerable interest.

Richter, de Fontechia, Laurentius, Marcellus Donatus, Amatus Lusitanus, and Bierling are some of the older writers who have observed this anomaly.

Many of the older books on obstetric subjects are full of such instances, and modern illustrations are constantly reported.

The older authors quoted several such instances, and Mehliss says that in the ancient days certain writers remarked that catamenial lustration from the penis was inflicted on the Jews as a divine punishment.

Such instances are numerous in the older literature, and a mere citation of a few is considered sufficient here.

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.

The older writers kept a careful record of the anomalous and extraordinary injuries of this character and of their effects.

There are several cases among the older writers in which odors are said to have produced abortion, but as analogues are not to be found in modern literature, unless the odor is very poisonous or pungent, we can give them but little credence.

This case recalls a somewhat similar one given by the older writers, in which a fetus was eaten by a worm.

Bartholinus, Wolff, Schenck, Horstius, Hagendorn, Fabricius Hildanus, Valerius, Rolfinck, Cornarius, Boener, and other older writers cite cases of this kind.

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