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upon to perform the operation. As the mother was very 
irritable and nervous, and the child unusually fractious, I 
used every means of soothing the child previous to the opera- 
tion ; but after it was performed, the child never ceased from 
crying for three days, and died at the end of that period. 
A lady of an unusually nervous habit, who had several 
healthy children perfectly well formed, during a state of 
pregnancy, was opening the hall door of her house in the 
country, when a Newfoundland dog rushed upon her, and 
jumped up in play, putting his two fore paws upon her sides ; 
the alarm and surprise was very great, but she soon reco- 
vered herself: when the child was born there was a claret 
mark upon the two parts of the belly that corresponded with 
the places on which the dog's paws had been placed. These 
I afterwards removed, and the parts readily recovered. 
An Italian woman, twenty years of age, when by her 
reckoning three months and three weeks gone with her third 
child, was travelling in a caravan with the baggage of the 
Duke of Wellington's army, in the middle of the night, in a 
violent storm, while she was fast asleep, a small monkey with 
a long chain upon the roof of the caravan took refuge in it, crept 
under her loins, and fell asleep ; she awoke, feeling uneasy 
from the pressure of the monkey, and put her hand dowm to 
scratch the part, but came upon the monkey's head, by which 
it awoke and bit her fingers, and in its alarm got fast hold of 
her loins. The woman went into fits, and was some minutes 
before she recovered herself: it was expected she would 
miscarry, but she went her full time. When the child was 
born it measured between seven and eight inches in height, 
and weighed one pound. This was in France. The child 
