[397]. Tome viii.
[398]. Phil. Trans. A.D. 1741.
[399]. In Capuron’s work before cited many other cases are related, p. 126. See also Burn’s Midwifery, edition 4, p. 451. Diemerbroeck Anat. Lib. ii, c. 2. Cours de Medicine Legale, par J. J. Belloc. Blumenbach’s Institutions of Physiology, sect 42. (Appendix, Note H.)
[400]. The appearances of the uterus, in the celebrated case of Miss Burns, were explained by Dr. Carson, by supposing that a recent expulsion of an hydatid had taken place; we shall have occasion hereafter to dwell at considerable length upon the very extraordinary evidence which was given upon the trial of Charles Angus, esq. for the murder of Margaret Burns.
[401]. Principles of Midwifery. Edition 5, p. 557.
[402]. Gynæcologia.
[403]. “Finis gignendi, ut plurimum, viris quidem septuagesimus annus est, mulieribus autem quinquagesimus.” Aristot. Polit. Lib. 7, c. 16.
“Vidi Mares fertiles ad annum nonagesimum, et fæminas quæ ad annum quinquagesimum secundum fertiles mansere puerperæ.” Boerhaave Op. Omu. p. 514.
[404]. Plinii Hist. Nat. Lib. vi, c. 14.
[405]. Plott’s Nat. Hist. of Staffordshire, chap. viii, section 3.