Exhibition of an Acardiac Foetus

By A. E. Simpson, M.D. April 25, 1877. The monster which I have to bring under the notice of the Society was brought to me, on 23d March, by a midwife who is in the habit of attending parturient women of the poorer classes, with the following history:? Mrs C., aged 20, gave birth to her first child, a girl, on 25th December 1873, being then 16 J years of age, and to a second girl on 14th June 1875. The labours on both occasions were easy; the children, well-formed and healthy, were nursed by the mother. She fell in labour at the full term of her third pregnancy on 17th March 1877, and, as usual, after a labour which was not attended with any notable escape of liquor amnii or other special feature, a healthy, well-developed, but small-sized, girl was born. The umbilical cord was tied in two places, and divided between the ligatures. The child was laid aside, and the nurse was holding the cord, without, she