Note of a Case in Which the Fœtal Heart Was Heard at an Early Period of Pregnancy

On 6th September 1874,1 was asked by my brother, a medical student, to see a woman, Mrs M'G., set. 30, multipara, who was ill with fever, in the High Street. I found her a very spare and thin person, suffering from a moderately severe attack of typhus fever. She said she was several months pregnant?about three or four, but could not tell exactly. The abdominal wall was thin and lax, as she had had