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FCETAL DYSTOKIA. 



body carried, that it is turned, as it were, outside in ; tlie skin forming 

 a kind of internal sac — the hair to the interior — and containing the 

 head and limbs of the foetus. With such a deformity, of course other 

 serious malformations or displacements co-exist : distorted pelvis, 

 wasted or undeveloped limbs, atresia of the anus, more or less complete 

 absence of the generative organs, etc. 



Fig. 108. 

 Ectopia Cordln : Schistocoi mus Jissisternalh. 



This kind of monstrosity will have to be specially noticed hereafter, 

 the eventration of the viscera of the foetus often considerably baffling 

 the obstetrist ; while the frequent distortion of the spine and limbs 

 renders delivery very difficult. 



Fig. 109. 

 PsEUDENCEPHALiAN MONSTROSITY ; Ptrocephalws pseuclccephaUis (Guult). 



The Exenccphalian monstrosities, belonging to Gurlt's third Order in 

 the first Class, are those which have the brain defective, deformed, and 

 external to the cranial cavity — itself more or less imperfect. 



The Pseiidencephaliau monstrosities belong to the third Order of 

 Gurlt's first Class, the encephalon being absent and replaced by a 

 variable-sized bright red tumour, composed of a multitude of small 



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