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but by stroking and pressing the abdomen witli his hands: an operation to 

 which she submitted in the presence of several women from among her neigh- 

 bours and acquaintance. This being done, she was ordered to provide herself 

 with a box, to receive whatever should come away from the uterus, and to pre- 

 serve the same therein. In about a fortnight a small bone came av.ay, not by 

 the uterine passages, but by the anus ; and a great many other small bones uere 

 voided at intervals in the same manner ; and this continued for as long a time as 

 the woman had gone beyond the natural period of gestation. They were all 

 carefully preserved in the box ; and from their number and appearance (espe- 

 cially those of the cranium which were very distinct) it was thought that there 

 must have been three dead foetuses retained all that length of time in the 

 womb. After the tedious and painful expulsion of the foetal bones in the 

 manner abovementioned, the patient got well by the efforts of nature, who 

 healed up the abcess she (nature) had made for the evacuation of the dead 

 offspring. But this woman about 2 years afterwards riding, very imprudently, 

 upon a jolting horse to Stirbitch fair, near Cambridge, a fresh ulceration was 

 thereby occasioned, and she died. 



A Discourse concerning ike Large Honu* frequently found under Ground in 

 Ireland, concluding from them that the great American Deer, called a Moose, 

 was formerly common in that Island : with Reniarhs on some other Things 

 natural to that Country. By Thomas Molyneux, M.D. F.R.S. N" 227, 

 p. 489. 



" By the remains we have of this animal, it appears to have been of the genus 

 cervinum or deer kind, and of that sort that carries broad or palmed horns, 

 bearing a greater affinity with the buck or fallow deer, than with the stag or 

 red deer, that has horns round and branched without a palm : this I lately 

 observed, having an opportunity of particularly examining a complete head, 

 with both its horns entirely perfect, not long since dug up, given to my brother 

 William Molyneux, as a natural curiosity, by Mr. Henry Osborn, of Dardistown, 

 in the county of Meath, about 2 miles from Drogheda, who wrote him the 

 following account of the manner and place they were found in. 



" I have by the bearer sent the head and horns I promised you ; this is the 

 third head I have found by casual trenching in my orchard ; they were all dug 

 up within the compass of an acre of land, and lay about 4 or 5 feet under 



* These hums (says Mr. Pennant,) diftev very much from those of the European or American 

 elk ; the beam, or part between the base and the pahu, is vastly longer : each is furnished with a 

 large and palraated brow antler, and the snags on the upper palms are longer. 



