i82 M E M O I R S of tbe 
Mr. Cowper was apt to think, that fuch like cafes arc often ta- 
ken to proceed from (tones in the kidneys or Ureters 5 but he 
thinks, that unufual pofture of keeping the body ereft, may dif- 
tinquifh It, together with a weaknefs of drawing the thigh and 
leg forwards j if i"hefe fymptoms do not conjointly occur, yet by 
this we may underftand, that nephritic dilorders are not, as is 
commonly thought, owing to ftones, either in the kidneys or 
Ureters. 
A Foetus lying 'without the Uterus in the Belly 5 by Jlf. Sa- 
viard. Phil. Tranf. ]SI° 222. p. 314. 
A Woman big with child came to V Hotel jDieu to lie in of 
her third or fourth child, and after exceffive pains about 
the navel and the lower part of the belly, by the different mo- 
tions of the child, fhe died there ^ upon opening her, the child 
was found dead, and not in the Alatrixy which was entire, but 
near it ^ having examined the body with attention, all the parts 
of the Uterus both internal and external, as alfo the Vagifja^ 
were very found ; the Uterus was as large as it ufes to be in wo- 
men 10 or 12 days after they are brought to bed 3 the internal 
orifice was of a livid colour ; there was no fign of a Cicatrix or 
hole, but thofe of the procefles, called 'Jubee Fallopiande^ which 
yet were hardly wide enough to admit of a hog's briftle. All 
the fpe^lators agreed, that the child was never conceived in the 
Uterus^ and that it never had ftaid there. The right telticle, or 
ovary, was very found, but the \tuba and its fringe were rotten in 
the place where it is faftened to the membranes of the 'Perito- 
fKeum^ which formed the bag in which the child was wrapt 5 the 
left teflicle was of the bignels of a hen's egg, full of a fetid 
Serurrjy the ligaments were large, and the 7uba and its fringe 
were rotten j the bag was placed betwixt the Alatri^ and the 
ftraight gut, in the cavity formed by the bending of the Os Sa- 
crum 5 the child was on its knees, lying towards the right fide, 
and feemed to have been dead 7 or 8 days j the child had left the 
^lacema^ tho* Aill faftened to it by the umbilical vefTels^ and 
the 'Placenta, being out of the bag, was on the left fide, whence 
was voided a great quantity of blood into the cavity ; its 
edges, being brought near to each other, reprefented a bowl, 
fuch as they play at nine pins with 5 all the membranes, that 
formed this bag, and all ihole that encompafled \t were gangrened. 
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