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separate on any pressure made against it, caused this opening, and the pro- 

 trusion of the foetus through it into the rectum, and so through the anus. 



There was a large discharge of grumous blood, and other substances, 

 through the anus, which continued coming away till the iSth of the aforesaid 

 month, when the woman died. 



It is to be observed, that there was a fulness and hardness very perceptible, 

 to be felt outwardly in the fore part of the belly, some distance below the 

 navel, from the time that the foetus came away to her death ; which, on open- 

 ing the body, he was well assured, was the uterus forced upwards and forwards 

 by a sacculus, which being large and distended, filled up the pelvis ; and by its 

 bulk pressed the uterus forwards. The foetus was perfect in all its parts ; but 

 much wasted and shrunk from its being some time dead ; and consequently 

 putrefied.' 



The vagina, uterus, ligamenta rotunda, left ovary. Fallopian tube, and liga- 

 mentum latum on that side, with the hypogastric and spermatic vessels on the 

 same side, were in a natural state. The Fallopian tube on the right side, was 

 traced from the fundus uteri, almost to the morsus diaboli ; where it was con- 

 fusedly united with, and opened into the sacculus described below. The ovary 

 on this side, with the ligamentum latum, was dilated into a large sacculus of 

 an irregular form, extending itself behind the uterus (to the posterior paries of 

 which it adhered) and passing on towards the left, was connected to that part 

 of the colon that terminates in the rectum, and to the rectum. In this sac- 

 culus were found great part of the placenta, and the remains of lacerated mem- 

 branes, besides the aperture of the Fallopian tube abovementioned ; and another, 

 about 4 inches in diameter, into the middle of the rectum. That part of the 

 ureter on the right side, which lies between the ovary and the kidney, was 

 dilated ; and so was that part of the rectum between the aperture into it, and 

 the end of the colon ; both which were caused from the contents of these 

 canals being obstructed in their passage. 



Of a Total Eclipse of the Moon, observed at Barhadoes, July 29, 1729. By 

 Mr. JVm. Stevenson. N" 4l6, p. 440. 



At the beginning of the eclipse, the moon was clouded. 



At 7^ \8™ Apparent time, 1 digits were eclipsed. 



8 1 1 The total immersion. 



9 3 1 The moon emerged. 

 10 50 End of the eclipse. 



In this and all the other observations Mr. S. made of both solar and lunar 

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