338 ESS AYS and O BS E R VAT ION S 



Art. XXIV. 

 jri Child brought forth at a Rent of the Belly *i 



IN April 1736, Elfpet Grants, in the pari fh 

 of Moy^ being with child, took her la- 

 bour-pains. After they had continued 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 bel- 

 ly 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 

 eame into the world, the after-burthen was 

 brought away, and the intrails were feen. 



The rent was cured without any other ap- 

 plication, than that of butter mixed with 

 white fugar, and its fear was only as the 

 fcratch of a big pin. 



These fadls are attefted by the judicial 

 oaths of An7ia Kennedy a midwife, and Mary 

 Ogilvie a neighbour, who were prefent when 

 the rent was made and the child came out 

 of it i of Margaret Dallas^ who affifled to 



bring 



May I. 1755. 



