cordseus

Updated: May 25, 2025

In the writings of Albucasis, during the eleventh century, extrauterine pregnancy is discussed, and later the works of N. Polinus and Cordseus, about the sixteenth century, speak of it; in the case of Cordseus the fetus was converted into a lithopedion and carried in the abdomen twenty-eight years.

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