VII. Description of an Extra-uterine Fcetus. -By Mr 

 T:homas Buzzard^ F. R. S. Edin. Leaurer on Anatomy 

 . and Surgery, and Surgeon to the London Hofpital. 



[Read Feb. 3. 1800.] 



MUCH light has been thrown xipon many of the moft im- 

 portant and intricate funcSlions of the animal machine, 

 by accurate inquiries into the procefTes of nature under extra- 

 ordinary circumflances. The dodlrine of conception, lately 

 advanced, owes its fupport, in no fmall degree, to obfervations 

 made on cafes, in which, from adventitious caufes. Nature has 

 been led out of her ordinary trait. The following cafe appears 

 to be of fuch a defcriptlon ; and, as tending further to elucidate 

 the fubjedlj may probably be not unacceptable to the learned 

 members of this Society. 



The woman, who was the fubjed; of the following invelliga- 

 tion, was aged twenty- eight, of a robuft form ; had been fix 

 times pregnant ; firfl at the age of nineteen, when fhe was de- 

 livered of a Uving child ; fhe then had two abortions ; of the 

 fourth pregnancy fhe was deUvered of a living child ; and of 

 the fifth fhe mifcarried, about five weeks before her death. 

 On the morning of the day flie died, at about half pafl eleven, 

 after having gone through confiderable fatigue in cleaning her 

 houfe, fhe was feized with a violent pain in the lower part of 

 the abdomen, which continued till her death j fhe gradually be- 

 came weaker; her abdomen became more and more fwollen, 

 and about nine in the evening fhe died. Having felt extraordi- 



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