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for about a months at length being exceeding painful, 
the NeighboLiring Gentlewomen took it for a great Boil 
or Apotteme, and apply ^ v^hatthey ufually do in fuch 
cafes, to affift its fuppuration^ and breaking, which had 
its tfFedi:, and it broke upon ("or rather under) the Navel , 
difcharged then (and after w ards) a great quantity of a 
thin F2!rid and difcoloured L^uor. The part about it 
mortified, and the Ulcer in larged to that bignefs, that a 
Mans hand might be introduced therein • it continued ex« 
ceeding painful, and emitted fuch an exceeding Oench, 
that neither herfeli (being, extreamly vvcak and faint) nor 
any body elfe could indure to look on it a (nialJ linie 
alter _ they found (bme little Bones wrought out of it, at 
which they were amazed, and fhewed them to me^l found 
them to be the boaeS ' of a Childs Finger, which made 
me curious of going to fee her, which was gladly ac- 
cepted, the Woman being very poor. When Texaminar 
k I perceived the Fxtus in a confus'd heap or mortified 
lump, for with my Probe I feit [even! Bones, and af 
that time extrafted (after I had fcparjtcd and dilated the 
mortification about it j abo^e half the Pvibs, feme Ver- 
tebres of the Back and other Hones, and cut out above, 
a pound of the Chiids mortified fubftance, as- black aS- 
Ink, with an extream naufcous fmeil, that every 2d or' 
3d day for a month (beginning on Eajier Su^idjj laft,) I 
extrafted what I could, being forced to do ic very deli be- 
rately, by reafon of the exceeding wcaknefs of the Wo- 
man, who had certainly dyed in the operation, had L 
forcibly extrafted it, and not given her time, for v^e' 
w-ere obliged every moment to fupport her wjth Cordi- 
als, and after every operation fne found hcrlclf light- 
fomer, and by degrees fweeter, which gave me hopes of - 
her recovery, which before I had no thoughts of. For 
not only the Lima Albd an.d Mufcles of the Abdomen, 
but the Peritcnmm and Qmeniiim was mortified to a- 
great breadth, and the- Inteftines lay fairly in view, and' 
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