292 ESSAYS aNp OBSERVATIONS 
A aka Da XVI. 
The Defcription of a monftrous Fetus; by Mr — 
Joun Mowat Surgeon at Langholm, iz 
a Letter to. ALEXANDER Monro /fenior, 
M: D. & P.. A. * 
ca learned men having of late 
x» years difputed about the formation 
of monfters, it is probable the hiftories of 
them may be of ufe in accounting for 
fome phenomena in nature; on this ac- 
count, I fend you the following defcrip- 
tion of one, which will be better under- 
ftood by the figures which young Profef- 
for Monro caufed to be drawn of it, of 
half the natural dimenfions. See plate 
VI. fig. I- 
eS as re 
when fix months with 
child, had this abortion, which lived half 
an hour. 
TAB. 
* May ie 1755. 
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