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and_a living one. Being at her full rec= 
koning, her pains had begun on Tuefday 
morning, and continued in a natural 
way, the child advancing towards the 
birth, and feme of the waters coming away 
all that day and Wednefday, till Wed- 
nefday evening, when fitting in a chair 
in labour, fhe gave a fudden {pring from 
the chair, complaining of violent pain in 
her belly. The child never was felt after- 
wards by thofe who attempted to aflift 
her delivery. She conftantly complained 
of violent pain in her belly, with her fen- 
fes and judgment intire, till Friday morn- 
ing, when fhe died. On Saturday her 
body was opened. 
ArTer cleaning away with fpunges a 
confiderable quantity of blood floating 
in the abdomen, we faw a ripe child and 
its fecundines lying in the lower part of 
it, a little to the right fide. The child, 
placenta, and umbilical rope were intire, 
and the membranes were as ufual after 
birth. ‘Fhe woman's uterus had its fun- 
dus raifed as high as the navel, with its 
fubftance foft and fpongy as is common 
in 
