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lit ^« Ohfer^ation of an Infant^ where the 
Brain was deprejfed into the hollow iff the 
Vertebrae of the Ne€\: By Dr. Edward 
Tyfon, Fellow of the College of Fhyfitians^ 
and R. S* 
A Bout Years ago I was defired with Mr. Lay- 
field d. Chyrurgeon to fee a Birth in the Neigh- 
bourhood, which was reported to be very Monftrous 
and Surprifiog : vVhen I came I found it far different 
from the Report Good Women firft gave of it; But 
what i thought very extraordinary, and much like the 
Inftance lately given in the Philofophical Tranfaftioos, 
N*! 2x6, for the Month of March^ ^^97- In my De- 
fcription of it, I can t be circumftantial in all particu- 
lars as I would, not having the Notes by me I then 
took, they being at prefent mifplaced and indeed I 
had not an opporcunity of fully fatisfying my felf, the 
Child being to be Buried prefent !y . Yet what I chiefly 
defign to remark, was fo obvious that I can't miftake in 
the account of it. 
As firft the Midwife informed me, that ihe was ve* 
ry fenfible that the Child was alive, and that it died in 
the Birth, or a little before. When I obftrved it, I 
found it well grown'; all the Limbs and Body well 
Proportioned and Plump ; the Face ¥/€11 featured, on- 
ly from ths Eye-brows ; the Scull was perfeftly depref- 
fed down to the Os Sphsnoides, oi Bafts the Calvarta ; 
(b that it had no Forehead at all* 
I opened the Cranmm in feveral places, before I could 
find any Braio at all i the Cranium being every where 
fo depreffed and touching the Calvaria ^ but at length 
