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the Child is ufed to lye in its Mothers Womb, and alfo 
very like a Wound received long fince. But now ' 
which is moft woiwthy of Reflexion is, that the Wound 
after three or four Days Dreffing, begining to come to 
Suppuration and Mundtficationy began to bleed very faft 
with Streams when drefled and wiped ; and it plainly, 
in all ^ its Circumftances , was very like a frefli cut, 
Wound; only that the ends of the Cut VelTels were fo 
covered with Slime , that the Circulation could not 
force the Blood through it. Befides, That the Contu- 
fion fore- mentioned, while that the Wound was heal- 
ing, began too to come to Suppuration, and made a 
gathering, and drew down the Matter and Blood to- 
wards the Back; for the Scituationof the Child was fuch^ 
that the Matter could not afcend to the Wound ; out 
of which Swelling, when it was open d, Matter and 
^Ibod run out in the fame manner we ufed to fee in a 
Contufion made fome Days , and that wherein this 
Wound is moft like to a frefh Wound is, that it being 
iimply handled asa new received Wound, it Cured; fc 
that I judged this Wound wholly, even at Birth of 
the Child in that State (as I fuppoft it was) at that ve- 
ry moment when the Mother was terrified, except that 
it was covered with Slime as above-faid. 
To prevent a qusftion, which undoubtedly you wijl 
ask, why this Wound, two Months before the Birth in 
the Mothers Body received did not Putrefie, and the 
Gontufion that was befides that, did not prefently come 
to change into an AlfceJJe; I will give my Confldera- 
tions therein, and fay , that this Accident remained in 
the fame Condition, becaufe no Air could come to 
it, and the Child lay all over in its Water, which has 
a preferving Virtue, infomuch that it excludes the 
:^rJ^'-4 ^to which , t^ prove, I could joya here feveral 
-Examples, ^ TgurSy &ic. , 
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