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whereof, though full of Hair, was a little redder than 
the reft of the Body. 
The Midwife laid , the Child came alive out of 
, thtVterus ; but tho' we cannot truft fuch Report, yet, 
'tis certain, the Mother affureth, that (he felt him ftir* 
ring very often, but chiefly an Hour before (he was ta- 
ken ill for her Delivery , he was fo troublefome to her 
"by his Motion, that (he could fiiid no eafe and quiet, 
but by her Husbands keeping his Hands faft upon her 
Belly, who afifirmeth he felt plainly the Child s motions; 
and indeed the good Condition of this Child's Body, is 
methinks> fufficient enough to prove, that he was alive ^ 
in the Belly of his Mother. 
I was fent for to open this Child's Head, and here is 
what was found in it. 
The Skin which did cover the Skull being ta- 
ken off, the CoronaliS'hone did appear lying flat up- 
on the S^henoideS'hone , which was the Caufe the 
Eyes did look, as if they had been at the top of the 
Forehead, 
The Squammofa part of theTemporal Bones was want- 
ing, there being but the Os Petrofum, which was in its 
natural pbce, and in which the Organs of the fenfe of 
hearing were in the ordinary Order. 
There was no Parietal Bones, nor any thing equiva- 
lent, which likely was the Caufe that the Coronal Bone, 
was fet upon the Sphenoides. 
Of the Occipital Bone, there was but the Bafis which 
joineth to the Sphenoides, in the middle whereof was 
the great hole, through which the Medulla chlongata 
commonly pafleth, all the upper part of this Bone 
being wanting, without any mark of having been 
corroded or gnawn , the edges of which were ve- 
ry finootb. 
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