370 ESSAYS anp OBSERVATIONS 
ART. XXIV. 
A Child brought forth at a Rent of the Belly*. 
N April 1736, Elfpet Grant, in the pa- 
i rifh of Moy, being’ with child, ‘took 
her labour-pains. After they had conti- 
nued three days with the child in ‘the 
birth, two cracks, as if the rafters of the 
houfe had broke, were heard about the — 
fick wife, and her belly was rent from 
near the navel, with a fquaint downwards. 
and to the left fide, to near the fhare- 
bone. At this rent the child came into 
the world, the after burthen was brought 
away, and the intrails were feen. 
THE rent was cured without any other 
application, than that of butter mixed 
white fugar, and its fcar was only as the 
fcratch of a big pin. 
THESE facts are attefted by eiccd 
oaths of Anna Kennedy a midwife, and ~ 
Mary Ogilvie a neighbour, who were pre- 
tig So 
fent 
* May i. 1755. 
