The American journal of the medical sciences (1827)
[Thorofare, N.J., etc.] Charles B. Slack [etc.] · leaf 393
Duane's Case of Monstrosity. 377 Art. XV. Description of a Human Monster. By W. N. Duane, M. D. of New York. [With a Figure.] Elizabeth Williams, a white woman, aged thirty-one years, was admitted into the lying-in ward of the Philadelphia Alms-house, … symptom of life that it exhibited was a feeble respiration and spas- modic contractions of the muscles of the face, and especially of the eyelids; it survived its birth only about twenty minutes. The mother states that she has had three accouchemens previously, and each time was delivered of a male…
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