374. ESSAYS anv OBSERVATIONS 
ART. SKVe | 
A preternatural Collection of Waters in the 
Womb with Twins ; by STEPHEN FELL 
Surgeon in Ulverftone *. . 
i? November 1747, I was called to Han- 
nah Salthoufe, mother of feveral chil- 
dren, then, according to her reckoning, 
in the firft week of the eighth month of 
her pregnancy. She had obferved her 
belly increafing in bulk very faft during 
the preceeding month, and particularly in 
‘the two laft weeks, in every day of which 
a fenfible difference was faid to have been 
obferved. At my firft vifit her abdomen 
_ appeared to me much more diftended than 
ever | had feen in a woman with child, 
efpecially from the navel to the upper part 
of the epigaftric region, where 1t was more 
tenfe than towards the offa pubis, and the 
moft ftretched part had little fenfe of feel- 
ing. Her pulfe was high and quick, her 
breathing was difficult, her face was ca- 
daverous’ 
* February 6. 1755+ 
