III An ExtraB of a Relation Printed at Fatfr^ 
contain ing a remarkable Hijlory of a Faetus 
without the Womb^ made by Dr. Fern. 
IN the JournalJes Savans, of Monday the i6th of Nih 
vemher , there was an Account publiffied of this 
Fad from a Letter of M, Saviard^ which was Printed 
in the Tranfa^ions : But our Author finding that deficient 
in many Particulars, and not agreeable to Truth in divers 
others, thought himfelf able to oblige all Lovers of 
Natural Hiftory , by a more exaia Relation of (b 
remarkable an Accident. 
A certain Goldfmiths Wife, whole Husband had been 
reduced to Poverty by misfortunes in Trade, being near 
Nine Months gone with her Fifth Child, was coriitrain* 
ed to feek Relief in the Hotel Dieu^ where ftie was re- 
ceived the 20th of Septernier. 
This Unfortunate Woman was then about Thirty four 
Years of Age, of a tender Conftitution, had had Four 
Children before , all Vv'hich had done very well ; bur 
with the prefent fine had been very ill, and endured a 
great deal of Mifery. The Midwife who examined 
her Body, found a confiderable Rifing on the Right-fide 
near the Navel , which very much refembled a Childs 
Head, her Belly below that place bearing no Propor- 
tion to chat above ^ or to the time of her Pregnancy. 
On the Left fide there was nothing fingular. The Mid- 
wife thought fhe felt through the F<igi;/^, a thick Mem- 
brane filled and diflended with Water, and in it the Heel 
of a Child , bent towards the Thigh; but flie could 
not' be sflured whether this was within the Womb or 
S nor. 
