110 " PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO I696. 



Of a Foetus lying without the Uterus, iyi the Belly. By M. Savard, Surgeon at 



Paris. N° -222, p. 314, 



A woman big with child came to rHotel-Dieu, to lic-in of her 3d or 4th 

 child ; and after excessive pains about the navel and the lower part of the belly, 

 by the different motions of the child, she died there. 



On opening her, the child was found dead, not in the matrix, which 

 they found entire, but near it. Having examined the body with attention ; 

 all the parts of the matrix, both inward and outward, as also the vagina, 

 were very sound. The uterus was as large as it uses to be in women 10 or 12 

 days after they are brought to bed. The internal orifice was of a livid colour, 

 occasioned by the several touchings of it, both before and after death. There 

 was no mark of a cicatrice or hole, but those of the processes, called tubae 

 fallopianae, which yet were hardly wide enough to admit of a hog's bristle. 

 All the company agreed, that the child was never conceived in the matrix, and 

 that it never hud staid there. The right testicle or ovarium was very sound, 

 but the tuba and its fringe were rotten in the place where it is fastened to the 

 membranes of the peritonaeum, which formed the bag in which the child was 

 wrapped. The left testicle was of the size of a hen's egg, full of a fetid serum, 

 and the ligaments large; the tuba and its fringe were putrid. This bag was 

 placed between the matrix and the straight gut, in the cavity formed by the 

 bending of the os sacrum ; the child was on its knees, lying towards the right 

 side, and seemed to have been dead 7 or 8 days. The child had left its pla- 

 centa, thougli still fastened to it by the umbilical vessels ; and the placenta, 

 being out of the bag, was on the left side, whence was voided a great quantity 

 of blood into the capacity : its edges being brought near to each other, repre- 

 sented a bowl, such as they play at nine pins with : all the membranes that 

 formed this bag, and those that encompassed it, were gangrened. 



Part nf a Letter from Mr. Halley, at Chester, Oct. 26, 1696; giving an Ac- 

 count of an Animal resembling a Whelp voided per ylnum by a Male Grey- 

 hound ; also of a Roman Altar found there, &c. N° 222, p. 31 6. 



The account the Society had from Dr. VVallis, about a year since, of a grey- 

 hound dog that voided an animal resembling a whelp per anum, as strange and 

 incredible as it may seem, is yet here stedfastly believed ; and the creature was 

 kept for some time in spirit of wine, having lived for some short time after it 

 came into the world : and it was seen alive by Mr. Roberts of the society, then 

 in Chester. 



