Paper, 'Observatio casus non vulgaris de hydrope intra uteri tunicas contento' by Daniel Turner This paper describes the autopsy of a 44-year-old woman with a distended abdomen, who appeared pregnant as a result. It was found that she had suffered from a hydrops uteri, with the outer tunicles of the uterus distended by water. The autopsy was witnessed by Dr N, Thomas Lichfeild, John Lichfeild, and Daniel Turner. Subject: Medicine Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Observatio casus non vulgaris de hydrope intra uteri tunicas contento'. Read to the Royal Society on 7 February 1694. [1690s]