No. 1.] ORIGIN OF HUMAN MONSTERS. 207 
son sixteen months older; no other children nor miscar- 
riages.” 
[The woman aborted again on November 27, 1905 (speci- 
men No. 325), and the ovum proved to be decidedly path- 
ological. On December 31, 1906, after being pregnant for 
five months, she was taken with penumonia and aborted on 
January 4. The placenta was strongly adherent and was 
removed with difficulty. She died January 7, 1907. Appar- 
ently this foetus was normal, but it was not sent to the labora- 
tory. | 
After the abortion Dr. Ballard found that the woman had 
an interstitial fibroid, somewhat diffuse in shape, in the anterior 
uterine wall. During some years she had some otorrhcea. 
There is no reason to suspect that her husband has ever had 
gonorrhoea or syphilis. 
The specimen appears to be normal, but when I opened the 
amnion, which had not been torn, I found it filled with a mass 
of granular magma, some of which is shown in the illustra- 
tion. The cord is well tied around the arms, indicating that 
the fcetus had been doing some lively jumping. Sections of 
the placenta, at the point the cord enters it, show that the 
villi are fibrous (7?) and covered with-an active syncytium, 
which is imbedded in bloody mucus containing large num- 
bers of clumps of leucocytes with fragmented nuclei. The 
tissues of the cord appear to be normal; the blood-vessels 
contain but few blood cells. 
No. 309. 
Dr. Steensland, Syracuse, N. Y. 
Ovum, 23 x 20 x 20 mm.; embryo, 4 mm. 
The specimen, apparently normal, had been in alcohol for 
three or four years, but has been well preserved. The amnion 
filled the entire chorion, otherwise the interior also appeared 
normal. Section showed, however, that the dilated amnion 
was accompanied with marked changes in the embryo. All 
of the tissues of the embryo are infiltrated with round cells, 
obliterating, to a great extent, the organs and tissues. The 
