The eight months' child and the etiquette of birth : obsit omen / Ann Ellis Hanson.
Abstract:
Discusses the ancient Greek belief that a child born after an eight-month gestation period would certainly die, and the effects this belief had on the Greek methods of determining the gestational period. Special emphasis is given to Hippocrates' work, "De octimestri partu"
Bulletin of the history of medicine Vol. 61 (1987), p. 589-602