This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896* edition. Excerpt: ...sometimes without hindrance to her future existence. I had an experience relative to such cases from my own observations while back in old Denmark. A woman there, my neighbor for many years, had always been a puny, sickly woman as long as I had known her, but never bed-fast. Two years previous to my ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896* edition. Excerpt: ...sometimes without hindrance to her future existence. I had an experience relative to such cases from my own observations while back in old Denmark. A woman there, my neighbor for many years, had always been a puny, sickly woman as long as I had known her, but never bed-fast. Two years previous to my leaving for Utah, she was afflicted seemingly more than before. She had a gathering in the lower part of the abdomen, a little to one side. By and by it made its appearance towards the surface in the form of a gigantic boil. It was poulticed and after a long treatment broke. Out from its cavity were expelled different pieces of bone together with pus and matter. By examination performed by the district doctor it was found to be remnants of a foetus. The history was proven to be true, when the woman explained that for eighteen years back, she had believed herself pregnant, and pregnancy progressed until full term. She did not suspect anything wrong, but to her entire surprise, she never took sick to be delivered and soon she did not "feel life" any longer. Gradually she got thinner and thinner, and people made fun of her for being so foolish as to imagine herself pregnant. She knew enough herself, she said, to be assured that she was pregnant, but the rest was a mystery to her until now, when the bursting boil revealed the whole history. By examination it was learned that her uterus was entirely disinterested in the case. It had been "abdominal pregnancy." We see the woman--if not entirely healthy and strong, though well enough to perform her housework--lived in that condition during those eighteen years. Though impaired in health, she was able to be around again when I left. LABOE. In studying this subject, we do not wish...
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