Medicine: Uncommon Case

Dr. Clifford Frederick Bramer was receiving patients at the Pueblo (Colo.) Clinic when the nurse announced that a Mrs. Vernon Hawley wanted to see him. Mrs. Hawley was a big woman (220 Ibs.); awkwardly she got ready and lay on the examining table. A large mass protruded from her abdomen and hung down to her thighs. At first Dr. Bramer thought it was a tumor. Then he thought of hernia. Closer examination disclosed the outline of a baby. He asked why she had come to see him, and Izene Hawley calmly replied. "This thing...

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