266 ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



Art. XVI. 



7he defer iption of a monfiroiis Foetus j by Mr, 

 John Mowat Surgeon at Langholm, in 

 a Letter to Alexander Monro fenior, 

 M.D.^ P.A -*. 



SEVERAL learned men having of late years 

 difputed about the formation of mon- 

 gers, it is probable the hiftories of them may 

 be of ufe in accounting for fome phenomena 

 in nature ^ on this account, I fend you the 

 following defcription of one, vs^hich will be 

 better underftood by the figures which young 

 Profeffor Monro caufed to be drawn of it, of 

 half the natural dimenfions. See plate VI. 



fig' I- 



when fix months with child , 



had this abortion, which lived half an hour. 

 TAB.VI.y%-. I. A A The lower parts of the 

 bodies of two female y^^z//^j, with their low- 

 er extremities in a natural ftate. 



B The navel-firing common to both fee- 

 tufes. 



C The bodies joined Immedlatery above 

 the navel. 



DDThe 



* May I. 1755. 



