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the otiier hand, he foresaw the danger and hazard of an incision, and the 

 nnavoidable censure of having killed the woman, if she should die under the 

 operation. At last humanity so far prevailed with iiim, as to try a doubtful 

 method of {^reserving life, rather than none. He told her mother, and the 

 other persons in the room, that death was inevitable, without making the pas 

 sages wider by incision, and so attempting a delivery. When they saw her, as 

 they thought, just expiring, they delivered her into his hands, to do with her 

 what he thought fit. 



He immediately thrust his scalpel into the inferior oblong orifice, and directly 

 cut into the orifice of the vagina, so brought them into one; then presently 

 with his scissars snipped the transverse membrane. This being done, he easily 

 introduced his hand, felt the head of the child, and with his finger thrust into 

 its mouth, drew forth a female infant, living and well formed. 



Ever after iier delivery she has suffered a prolapsus uteri, on the least standing 

 or walking. Mr. B. proposed to remedy this by a suture, as is practised in the 

 case of the vulva breaking into the anus; but she would by no means admit of 

 it. So that she almost continually laboured under a procidentia uteri, and the 

 body of the womb and vagina were so corroded by the acrimony of the urine, 

 that four or five ulcers formed upon them. Besides this inconvenience, some 

 of the thinner parts of the excreuient were discharged at the bottom of this 

 large cleft; and by introducing his finger at the bottom of it, he could easily 

 thrust the top of it through the anus. 



J partial ijgia of Objects. By Dr. Abraham Fater. N" 384, p. 147. Trans- 

 lated from the Latin. 



A middle aged woman, was in one night seized with a black cataract, or gutta 

 serena, by the retropulsion of a coryza, by bathing and a subsequent cold. 

 For, getting up in the morning, she found herself deprived of her sight, with- 

 out any external blemish in her eyes. After taking several laxative medicines 

 and purifiers of the blood, and at the same time applying vesicatories, and using 

 a regular diet, her sight gradually returned; yet with the following particular 

 phaenomena: at first, all the people she met appeared without heads, their 

 bodies only without the head presenting to view. In process of time she saw 

 objects entire, but through a mist or net, as it were; and after this, she ob- 

 served spots or motes before her eyes; at length this disorder degenerated into 

 a partial sight; and lastly, she saw an object entire, with both her eyes open 

 and directed towards it; but shutting either of them, part of the object seemed 

 to be covered with a round spot or mist, which appeared so much the larger, as 



