Prof. Dohrn. - Tonic muscle spasm in a stillborn premature fetus of one eclamptic. Caesar section on the dead. - (Centr. F. Gynaec., No. 19, 1895)

A 39-year-old patient with manifestations of severe eclampsia, at 28-29 weeks of pregnancy, was subjected to Caesar treatment immediately after her death. It was not possible to ascertain the heartbeat of the fetus shortly before death. The fetus represented a special state, namely: it was bent, numb, the mouth was tightly closed, the arms and legs were flexed, the fingers were curved like a bird's claw.