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repeated ftrokes of the child's head in that place where the in- 
teguments were fo thin, by reafbn of their great extenliDn, that 
the hardnefs of the Crauium could plainly be felt thro' them : In 
this condition the patient was, when received into the hofpitalj 
till her affliction encreaiing, ihe could not lie upon her fide or 
back, being forced to fit in a chair, or kneel in bed, with her 
head rcfting on her brcaft 5 from thefe llrange and unaccountable 
lymptoms, the phyfician and mafter chirurgeon of the houfe, 
thought it was beft to leave the work to nature, and prepare the 
woman for her labour by opening a vein in her foot 5 the evacua- 
tion was ordered to be Imall, in which, regard was had to the 
weaknels of the patient, and the delicacy of her conftitution 5 
however, after this time the child made no efforts, the tumour 
fiibfided, and there remained only an hydropic indifpofition, 
which might be perceived by the flu(ftuation and a great quan- 
tity of water came away, for feveral days, from the orifice of the 
vein 5 infbmuch, that (lie, who leemed to have her lower belly 
and thighs extremely diftended, was very much wafted before 
her death. 
After her deceale, her body was opened by M. Joiiey\ and upon 
the firll incifion thro' the integuments, there came away two or 
three pints (^'Taris mealurej of water and blood, and there 
appeared the head of a child naked 5 and when the parts were all 
laid open, there was found an entire female Fc^tuSy contained in 
a fort of cover or bag, which at once ferved it both for a womb 
and membranes 5 M. jfouey took the child with the umbilical 
firing out of the mother's belly, tracing the firing to the Tla- 
cenUly into which it was inferted ^ this laft appeared like a great 
round lump of Hefh, and adhered fo firmly to the Mefentery and 
Colon on the left fide, that it could not be feparatcd from them 
without fome difficulty 5 on one fide of this lump was a lefler, 
about the fize of a kidney, which principally adhered to the 
Mefentery y and received leveral branches of the firing into it ; 
the larger lump was round, and the greateft part of it adhered 
to the bag, or cafe, which contains the child ^ this cafe, or bag, 
was corrupted and mortified in part, which probably might pro- 
ceed from the frequent flrokes of the infant's head j it fprung 
from the edges of the 'iiib\ or Flmhi'ia of the right ovary, which 
was more entire than the left, and proceeded obliquely to the left 
fide, terminating at the bottom of the 'Pelvis-^ m its defcent it 
lent out a fmall" portion between the womb and ReEium-^ this 
bag, by compreffing the parts, had gained a confiderable fpace in 
the above-mentioned cavity, in fuch manner that a great parr of 
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