PHYSICAL AND LITERARY. 339. 



bring away the after-burthen ; of Robert 

 Smith who faw the rent and intrails imme- 

 diately after this ; and of Jfobel barrel, who, 

 afterwards examined the fear: taken and 

 fubfcribed by James Macqueen younger of 

 Corribrough, Bailie to the Laird of Mackintojh^ 

 2XMoyhalh November 22. 1738 ; of which 

 the original fubfcribed copies are kept by the 

 Secretaries of the Philofophical Society of 

 'Edinburgh. 



A Child efcaping at a Rent of the Womb in- 

 to the Abdomen ; by Alexander Monro, 

 Senior, M. D. & P. A. 



IN March 1744, I was defired by Mr. 

 Ramfay Surgeon here, to witnefs the exa- 

 mination of the body of a woman who died 

 in child-labour without being delivered. The 

 account given me of this woman was, that 

 fhe was about 35 years of age, and had born 

 two dead children, and a living one. Being at 

 her full reckoning, her pains had begun on 

 Tuefday morning, and continued in a natural 

 way, the child advancing towards the birth, 



and 



