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    1. [DUR-NBL] "Abduction pregnancy"
    2. John Fisher
    3. I have thought further about this certificate: Premature separation of the placenta from the uterus is known as "abruptio placentae". Now this is something which could be transcribed from a doctor's handwriting by a registrar of deaths, and look very like "abduction". In modern obstetrics, this is a most dangerous condition, with a very low percentage of saved babies, and a high risk of maternal death, despite the availability of urgent caesarian section and blood transfusion. In the nineteenth century, I would expect death of mother and babe. John Fisher

    02/06/2007 05:01:53