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Fire and Ax ^ Inftances of which I will not here give, 
becaufe I have already exceeded the bounds of a 
Letter. 
IV. Part of a Letter from Sir Charles Holt, to tlye 
Publijhery concerning a ChiU ' who hgd its In- 
tefiifies^ Mefentery^ &c, in the Cavity of the 
Thorax, and a further account of the perfon 
vientioned to have fvpallowed Stones,, in No 
2%^. of ihefe Tranf^Mions. 
Sometime fince I was defir'd by a Friend of mine to 
be prefent at the opening of a Child of his, of a- 
bout 2 months old, which dyed (as he told me) after 
an unufual, and extraordinary manner* I found at the; 
houfe two Learned Gentlemen and very good Anato- 
mifts, invited oh the fame occafion. We enquired into 
the Circumftances of the Childs Sicknefs and Death, and 
from the Women received the following account. 
' That the Child was uneafie and reftlefs from its 
^ Birth, and conftantly laboured under a difficulty ot 
* Breathing. 
^ That its Illnefs was like nothing they had feen in 
* other Children 5 neither could they perceive it relieved 
* by any thing adminiftred to it, tho by the advice of a 
' Learned Phyfician 5 but it lay groaning and pining till 
' it dyed. 
* That they had always obferved, when the Child 
' was undreit an odd fort of working in its Breaft, and 
* could perceive a Crawling round the Ribs and Breaft; 
' on both fides, as if a Knot of fmall Eels, or large 
* Earth-worms had been penn'd up within the Cavity. 
This 
