13-pound

Updated: June 14, 2025

Schreiber gives an instance of rupture of the uterus occasioned by the presence of a 13-pound fetus, and there is recorded the account of a rupture caused by a 20-pound fetus that made its way into the abdomen. We find old accounts of cases of rupture of the uterus with birth by the umbilicus and the recovery of the woman.

George M. (George Milbrey) Gould - Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine