The American journal of the medical sciences (1827)
[Thorofare, N.J., etc.] Charles B. Slack [etc.] · leaf 121
houlder-joint and the patient thus aided. Duration of labour, three and a half hours. Se- cundines soon followed. The child was born dead, and was of a perfectly natural colour. Attempts to resuscitate failed. It had evidently not been dead long, as the mother had felt its movements two hours… … Post-mortem twenty-seven hours after birth. Body well developed and very large; the lungs were not inflated, and the other organs of thoracic and abdominal cavity appeared healthy. The head (Fig. 1) was small compared with the body. The face had an idiotic expression, which was made quite hideous…
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