504 PHILOSOPHICAL TKANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1741. 



The monkey had a hood on, which reached to his shoulders, of which the wo- 

 man took great notice; and all the time the monkey was playing his tricks, in 

 turning over a stick, &c. the woman could not keep her eyes off him. A short 

 time after, the woman met a man of a thin, pale, dismal aspect, on whom she 

 looked very earnestly, and thought his face exactly like the monkey's. When 

 the woman was quick with child, and the foetus began to move, the woman felt 

 it turn over and over, many times successively, just as the monkey turned over 

 the stick, and always in the same manner. In the 7th month of her pregnancy, 

 she was taken ill, with a vomiting, gripes, and looseness, which soon ceased 

 without the help of medicine; on which her belly decreased, and the foetus did 

 not move so often, nor so strong, as before. The woman began to be very 

 uneasy, thought her case dangerous, and that she was not with child; on which 

 she consulted Mr. G. who was of opinion that she was with child. After this 

 time, the child within her stirred always less and less, till at the end of 10 

 months from the time of her supposed conception, and when she had not felt 

 the child move for 6 weeks before, she was delivered of the foetus, having the 

 appearance abovementioned, and the navel-string twisted as if by the foetus 

 turning over. 



The Case of Mary Howell, who had a Needle run into her Arm, which came out 



at her Breast. N°46l, p. 767. 



Mary Howell, late of Oswestry, Shropshire, spinster, had, on the 3d day of 

 March 1732, a small needle, which she had stuck on the sleeve of her gown, 

 by her accidentally running against a door, driven, with some thread twisted 

 about it, into her left arm, about 6 inches below her shoulder; and a young 

 woman endeavouring to draw it out, broke off its eye, and left the needle in 

 her arm ; on which she directly applied to Mr. Tomkins, a surgeon, in the same 

 town, who endeavoured to extract it, but could not, without laying her arm 

 open, which she would not suffer. About a month after which, she felt a 

 gnawing pain above the place where the needle ran in, and up to her left 

 shoulder, which continued 3 or 4 days, and so returned by fits, till at length, 

 after about 7 years, she felt a gnawing pain at her stomach, which made her 

 very sick, and retching to vomit, and continued to afflict her, especially in the 

 mornings, for some days, after which she fancied a pin was got into her right 

 breast, in the under part: and 1 days after applied to Mr. Robert Nanney, sur- 

 geon, in Fetter-lane, who the same day lanced the breast, and extracted the 

 needle. 



