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shrunken eyeball with no packing.
On opening the head through the anterior fontanelle the cranial
cavity was found filled with linen apparently impregnated with
some saline material. The linen had been inserted through the
nose. A wire passed through the right nostril appeared in the
cranial cavity as seen through the fontanelle.
Umbilicus. There is no sign of the umbilical cord but the
appearance of the navel which is not retracted suggests that the
cord had been removed by cutting it off close to the abdominal
wall and that it had not dried up as it would had the child
lived.
The abdominal wall has been opened by an incision 18 mm. in
length on the left side immediately above the inguinal ligament
and parallel with it. The opening was closed with a