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The following symptoms generally precede a threatened miscarriage:
chilliness followed by more or less fever and bearing-down pains severe pains in the abdomen, or cutting pains in the loins, resembling labor pains; often the pains come from a point between the spine and the uterus, and come forward to the pubis
discharge of mucus and blood, sometimes [...]

German measles, otherwise known as rubella, is a mild but very infectious vital disease, with an incubation period of about 18 days. It is contagious from the first appearance of symptoms until the rash disappears, usually three or four days. It is similar to measles but is more trivial. One attack usually confers immunity for [...]