34? ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



Art. XXV. 



A preternatural ColleBmi of Waters in the 

 Womb with Twins j hy Stephen Fell 

 Surgeon in Ulverflone *. 



IN No'vember 1 747, 1 was called to Hannah 

 Salthoufe^ mother of feveral children, 

 then, according to her reckoning, in the 

 firfl week of the eighth month of her preg- 

 nancy. She had obferved her belly increa- 

 ling 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 I had feen in a wo- 

 man with child, efpecially from the navel 

 to the upper part of the epigaftric region, 

 where it was more tenfe than towards the 

 cffa pubis y and the moft ftretched part had 

 little fenfe of feeling. Her pulfe was high 

 and quick, her breathing was difficult, her 



face 



* February 6. 1755. 



