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were i<5, yet differing in fiz?» The reft vs^cre irery fmail to 
the number of 22. The bladder being difplay'd, we found 
not a drop of Urin in it, but it had already made, on the fide 
of the orifice of the bladder, an opening of a confiderable 
bignefs 5 upon which , death ncceffarily enfued. In the 
Kidneys and Ureters there could not be iound the leaft grain 
or niark of fand. 
J/t ExtraB of a Lener^ written by Monftmr Denys Novemb, 
lyJaJifrom ?ms concerning an fetus lately born there 5 
Englijh't out of French. 
SIR, 
Few days fince, I was called to a fick woman, brought 
to bed that very day I wcDt to fee her. After I had prc- 
fcribed the phyfick I judged neceflary for the motherj asked 
forthechild, which died, I hcard,asibon as'twas boro.The 
Body of ic appeared outwardly very well form'd and very 
fat s but the head was fodeform'd, that it frighted all that 
were prcfcnt. It had no front 5 the two eyes were on the 
top of thcface^ very big, and almoft without an orbite to 
lodge them in. The upper and hind-part of the Head wa-s 
red like coagulated bloody and refembled thebottooa of a 
Calves-head when cut and fever'd from the Vertebra's of the 
neck, I had thecuriofity to examine this red fleflij and I 
found under it aBonc, that was not a hollow skul^ but a 
Iblid bone in the form of a fmall oyfte r. 1 had it opened eve- 
ry way > but I found oo hollownefs nor brains in it. This 
bone was only fafta'd before to the bones of the face^ and not 
behind to the vertebras of the neck 5 fo chat the marrow of 
the back bone had nocommuaication with the head. I pour- 
fued the Optic nerves, and loft them in this bone, which was 
in lieu of tht cranium^ and was not at all fpuDgy, but very 
hard* It feems to me fomewhat extraordinary, that a child 
fliould be able to live nine months without brains 5 for I was 
iaform^dj that it was very lively and brisk in the mothers bel* 
ly, but died as foon as it came into the Air^. 
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