514 Dr. Granville on a mal-conformation of 
which one of the foetuses came into the world at the sixth, and 
the other at the ninth month of pregnancy, owing to the ova 
being quite distinct and separate ? Had this not been the 
case, the distressing circumstances, which brought on the pre- 
mature contraction of the womb, so as to expel part of its 
contents in November, as in the simplest cases of premature 
labour, would have caused the expulsion of the whole, or 
in other words, of both ova, in that same month ; and we 
should not have heard of the second accouchement in the fol- 
lowing February ; which led the author of the paper in 
question to bring the case forward as one of superfetation, in 
opposition to what he has called “ the scepticism of modern 
physiologists.” Had it been proved that the child, of which 
the Lady in question was delivered, had reached its full term 
of uterogestation in November, and that she had brought 
forth another child one, two, or three months afterwards, of 
equally full growth ; then a case something like superfetation 
would have really occurred, and scepticism would have been 
staggered. 
I have now under my eyes a recent preparation from Mr. 
Chapman, at Windsor, destined for Mr. Clarke's collection; 
but which through the kindness of Dr. Baillie I have been 
allowed to examine for my private information ; where the com- 
plete ovum is seen, such as it was expelled at the seventh month 
of pregnancy; the Lady being safely delivered of another child 
alive, two months afterwards. Although the first foetus was 
expelled at the seventh month, it was evidently of a growth of 
a shorter period, and had remained in the uterus dead for three 
months. When the case was read before the Medico Chirur- 
