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she had discharged two waters, but nothing more: he then carefully examined 

 her again, and plainly felt a child through the integuments of the abdomen, but 

 could not give her any assistance. 



It was about this time that Dr. Bamber first acquainted Dr. M. with the case, 

 and desired that he would attend her as often as occasion might require, and that 

 he would acquaint him if any thing like labour, or other remarkable alteration 

 should occur. Accordingly Dr. M. made her a visit, and after a proper exami- 

 nation, was convinced of the certainty of the Doctor's assertion. 



Her pains now began to abate, and she became tolerably easy ; but about the 

 latter end of Jan. 1733-4, she conceived again with child, and was delivered on 

 the 28th of Oct. following by Dr. Bamber, who sent for Dr. M. to attend him 

 in her labour: the Doctor soon delivered her of a fine boy, and after having 

 brought away the placenta, he searched for the other child, which he had before 

 felt through the integuments of the abdomen, but found it was lodged in the 

 cavity of the abdomen, and beyond the reach of human art to relieve her. This 

 fact every one then present was made sensible of. 



October 22, 1735, Dr. M. was sent for to her in her labour, but before his ar- 

 rival she was delivered of a boy ; but he brought away the placenta, which gave 

 him an opportunity of examining for the other child, and found it in the same 

 situation as formerly. 



October Q, 1738, Dr. M. was again sent for to her when in labour, but she 

 was delivered of a boy before he arrived. On examining the womb, and the state 

 of the abdomen, the child appeared just as. before, without any alteration. 



June 17, 1741, Dr. M. was again sent for in her labour, but found her just 

 delivered of a girl; and on examining the parts, every thing appeared as before. 



October 14, 1747, being greatly emaciated by constant pains, &c. she was 

 admitted a patient in Guy's Hospital, where she died the 7 th of November fol- 

 lowing, after having laboured under the distresses and uneasiness of carrying a 

 dead child within her, in a manner loose, in the cavity of the abdomen upwards 

 of 16 years. 



The day after her death Dr. M. opened her, in the presence of Dr. Nesbit, 

 Dr. Nichols, and Dr. Lawrence, when the uterus, and the several other con- 

 tents of the abdomen appeared nearly in their natural state; but on the right 

 side within the os ilium a child presented itself, which was attached to the ilium 

 and neighbouring membranes by a portion of the peritonaeum, in which the 

 fimbria and part of the right Fallopian tube seemed to lose itself. 



The child seemed no-ways putrid; but the integuments were become so callous, 

 and changed from their natural state, that the whole seemed to resemble a car- 

 tilaginous mass, without form or distinction: the legs indeed were distinguish- 

 able, though they were much wasted and distorted. On opening the callous 



