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he might happen to difcovcr in his further Enqui- 
ries. 
According to his Defire, about Two a Clock in the 
Afternoon, M. Hmmerer^ Doftor of Phyfick, M. Du 
Ferney, Profeflor of Anatomy and Chirurgery in the 
Rt>yal Garden , M, Mauriceau a famous Man-Midwife, 
and M. Merry^ Surgeon and Anatomift of the Acade- 
my of Sciences came to the Hctel Dieu, and the Womb 
being carefully Differed in the Prefenccof thefe Gen- 
tlemen, together with the Senior Surgeons of that 
Houfe, and divers others, whofe Curiofity had drawn 
them thither ; it was unanimoufly agreed, that the Fog- 
tus had never been in it, Qt being as was noted abovc^ 
in the fame ftate as in Women, who are not with Child, 
except the fmall Dilatation of its Bulk , which might 
arife from a Compreffion of the Veflels, and intercep- 
tion of the Refluent Blood , by the unnatural Pofition 
of the Z'^/i^.] 
In thrufting a long and flender Probe through the 
Right Horn of the Womb, it eafily paft into the Tube 
of the fame fide, for Three Fingers breadth in length, 
but it could not be thruft further by reafon of the Con- 
ftriftion of the Tube in that part. The Capacity of 
the Tube could not be diftingui(hed, the Pariete^ of 
it , ^ by their Coalition with the Chorion and Am- 
nios of the Child , forming the Bag in which the jChild 
was included, which extended from the Tubjr on the 
Right fide to that on the Left, and w^as^ggfutinated to 
the Fifcera of the lower Belly, the Reilum, and to the 
back part of the Womb, as appeared by fome Frag- 
ments remaining on thofe Parts after the Separa- 
tion. 
Our Author Annexes fome Refledions on this extra- 
ordinary Subjed , which we (hall not here Recite ; 
however it muft not be omitted what this Gentleman 
informs 
