518 VHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNN0 1741. 



Two months after her second delivery, symptoms of pregnancy appeared 

 again, and increased in proportion to the time ; but at the end of g months 

 those symptoms began to abate, and in a little time she had no other reason for 

 thinking she was with child, but an absolute stoppage of her catamenia. Nor 

 had she, during the space of 6 years and some months, any one return of 

 them ; but for the greatest part of that time, especially the first 4 years, she 

 was perpetually afflicted with most violent pains in the middle region of the 

 abdomen. 



Some time in the 7th year after her last pregnancy, which ended in such an 

 unusual manner, a swelling in her belly, and other symptoms, made her con- 

 clude she was again pregnant. About 7 months after this uncertain account, a 

 boil, as she thought, appeared about an inch and a half higher than her navel. 

 During this time of her pregnancy she often found the symptoms of her being 

 quick with child, till about 6 weeks before this boil, as she called it, appeared. 

 It was attended with very great pain. 



She sent for one O Neill, a butcher. This man came to her the Sunday 

 after her message, and found her in an expiring condition. By this time the 

 imposthumation had broken, and an elbow of the child had forced itself through 

 it, and appeared in view. At the request of herself and friends, he undertook 

 to administer relief to her, and made so large an incision above and below the 

 navel, as enabled him, by fixing his fingers under the jaw of the foetus, to ex- 

 tract it ; in which operation he met not with the least impediment. He after- 

 wards looked into her belly, and seeing something black, he put in his hand, 

 and extracted, by pieces, a perfect skeleton of a child, and several pieces of 

 black putrefied flesh. After the operation, he swathed her up ; and in 6 weeks 

 she pursued her business about the house. 



She had been in good health ever after ; only she had a navel rupture, owing 

 to the ignorance of the man in not applying a proper bandage. 



Of a new Invention of expanding Fluids, by their being conveyed into certain 

 heated Vessels, where they are immediately rarefied into an elastic impelling 

 Force, sufficient to give Motion to Hydraulopneumatical and other Engines, for 

 raising Water, and other Uses, &c. By John Payne. N°46l, p. 821. 



To produce a great power at a small expence, is what every body desires in 

 moving machinery : and is what, by this new invention, we have proved by 

 experiments and practice, to be a great improvement, when applied to that 

 noble invention the fire-engine. The following is a short description of the 

 vessels and machinery contrived for that purpose ; viz. 



