Lithopedion
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Lithopedion
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Published 2019-03-25T15:57:19+00:00
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A lithopedion, or stone baby, is a rare phenomenon which occurs most commonly when a fetus dies during an abdominal pregnancy, is too large to be reabsorbed by the body, and calcifies on the outside as part of a foreign body reaction, shielding the mother's body from the dead tissue of the fetus and preventing infection.
In 1720, 91-year-old Anna Müller insisted on her deathbed that she had been carrying a child for 46 years. She asked her pastor and the doctor to get it out after her death. The autopsy found a rock-hard structure. One opened it with a hatchet and found therein a dead fetus. The stone child was handed over to the ducal Kunstkammer in Stuttgart.
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| Date published | 25/03/2019 |
| Complessità | Very Difficult |
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| Title | Lithopedion |
| Date | 1720 |
| Artist | Unknown artist |
| Place | Museum of Ancient Cultures, MUT |
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