horstius

Updated: January 11, 2026

Horstius in the sixteenth century relates the history of a woman who conceived for the third time in March, 1547, and in 1563 the remains of the fetus were still in the abdomen. Israel Spach, in an extensive gynecologic work published in 1557, figures a lithopedion drawn in situ in the case of a woman with her belly laid open.

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