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of nerves in the placenta. 
was reared with great difficulty ; it was carried afterwards 
to Ireland, and there was affiicted with a hacking cough ; it 
was brought to England, in expectation of the cough being 
relieved, but died soon after, just before it completed its ninth 
year. I saw it before its death ; at that time it was much 
emaciated, and measured exactly twenty-two inches. After 
death it was found that the fontinelle of the head had closed ; 
no fat was any where met with but at the bottom of the 
orbits. The uterus was as small as in a foetus between three 
and four months, not being at all developed, whereas in a 
new-born child it has acquired a considerable size ; it was 
closely attached to the posterior surface of the urinary bladder, 
apparently by inflammation : the bladder was distended 
with urine, and the size of a turkey's egg. As the child had 
never passed its water freely from the time of its birth, this 
affection of the bladder must have taken place at the same 
time with the injury produced by the monkey's gripe upon 
the loins of the mother. 
I examined an abortion, which was considered by Mr. 
Clarke, Teacher in Midwifery, to be about three months and 
a half after impregnation ; and on comparing the ovaria with 
those of the dwarf, they were nearly of the same size, but 
not quite so long ; the difference however was scarcely ob- 
servable. 
The child when I saw it could walk alone, but not more 
confident in itself, or firm on its legs, than an healthy infant at 
sixteen months. Its sight was very quick, particularly in 
seeing bright objects ; was delighted with every thing showy, 
much pleased with ornaments in its own dress, could speak 
in a very low tone and shrill voice, and had some taste for 
