Jn SxtraB of Two Letters from Mr* 
Sampfon Birch, an JUermm and Jpo^ 
thecary i^r Stafford, Concerning an llx-^ 
traordinary Birth in StaffordfliiVe , 
mth %efleBions thereon by Edw. Tyfcn 
MJD^fellovp of the Coll .of Ph y fi tians, 
and of the K. Society. 
TT He wife of one Tdylorsi Taylor in Hejwood in Stafford^ 
Shek dihout 24. or 25. years of Age, being Married 
about ayear^ m January laftfell into Travd, and not being 
able to be delivered 3 after Five or Six days fent for 
Mr. Heilor a Chirurgeonat Lichfield^md M.r>BircI/s Wife : 
She perceived the Dead and in a wrong pofition for 
Birth; wherefore having placed it right* fhe appiyed fit In-* 
ftruments * and the Chirurgeon brought it away by ihength^ 
flie afterwards brought av^aythe Jfter-birth; but then 
perceived that their was ftill remaining fomething beildeSg 
which lay feparace from the Child and /afterbirth ; but 
did very firmly adhere andwasfixtto the Womb, in fo 
much that in feparating this , it was much more difBcalc. 
and painful to htr than bringing away the dead Child, sod 
occafioned a larg Flux of Blood. 
The Thing it felf being fent by Mr. Birch to Dr. Plot at 
Oxford^ and by him to the J^yal Society y and ib having 
an opportunity of obferving it , and fince of difcourGng 
Mr. Birch himfelf 5 I fliall here give not only a figure of 
this ftrange Body* but afdd to the accounts of it in the 
Let* 
