14 Mr. Barnham to Mr. Wray. 



not without much difficulty, ihe did fend me Yefter- 

 day, after many importunities. I hope God will for- 

 give me myCuriofky, being chiefly led thereunto by 

 an Opinion, or fecret Impulfe, that you with the 

 Advice and Information of what you may meet with- 

 al abroad, may be the Author of her recovery. She # 

 iays, in her own Letter, to me thus; That fhe 

 hath grown bigger and bigger this two Years, as I 

 told you before, and that her Belly is conftantly 

 very hard 5 llie did yvvouKobwou hoc eft per men fir ua. 

 furgare more debito^ until the beginning of laft Sum- 

 mer, when fhe was advifed to drink Epfom Wa- 

 ters 5 which ihe did for fome time, until fhe 

 found great inconveniences by them : for ever fince 

 £he hath had fupprejfionem men/turn^ and, moreover, 

 prefently after her coming from Epfom , fhe felt a 

 thing come down juft like a Bladder, and bigger than 

 her Fiii, and hath lain upon the Neck of her Womb 

 ever fince ^ and upon the leaft walking or ftraining 

 comes out fuller, and when ihe lies down goes in far- 

 ther than a Woman's reach 3 fo are her own Words. 

 She faith fhe is free from any Pain in thofe Parts, on- 

 ly fhe hath a great weaknefs, fo that Ihe cannot ftand 

 much, efpecially after Purging. Her Navel is pufFt 

 up bigger than a little Egg clear above the Skin. She 

 lays that the Doftors and Mid wives cannot determine 

 what it is that comes down fo, fome fay it is the Mo- 

 ther. She faith moreover, that Hie feels no Pain ei- 

 ther in her Belly or Back , only Stiches fly up and 

 down that are ready to take away her Breath. She 

 feldom or never breaks Wind downward. This is 

 all Ihe tells me in her Letter, and I do believe you 

 Jiave a larger Account of her Difeafe than her own 

 Phyficians 3 her Bafhfulnefs is fo much , that it will 

 not fuffer her to difcourfe with her own Sex in this 

 Matter freely. I have moft exaftly, according to the 

 meaning of her Letter, tranferibed her Senle, and 

 chiefly her Words, where Modefty will give me 



leave. 



