of the Weilminfter General Difpenfary. 363 
One woman was delivered of a twin fee fig. 2. 
84 of the children, or i in 23 of the whole number, were 
dead-born +. Of thefe, 49, or nearly five-eighths, were boys, 
and 35 were girls. 
Of 1400 women who returned their letters, or of whom a 
certain account could be obtained, 85, or nearly 1 in 16, had 
There were two ftomachs, two fists of inteftines, which, at length uniting, ter- 
minated in one reflum and anus. There was but one urinary bladder. The 
drawing that accompanies this will give a more juft idea of its external figure ; 
and Dr. hunter, who diffe&ed it, will probably one day oblige the world with 
an exadl anatomical d'efcription of it. 
, * Of this Angular production, to which I have not ventured to give a name, 
the following is the hiftory and defcription. The woman who produced it is 
about twenty-feven years of age; this was her firft pregnancy. She was, after a 
labour, delivered of a female foetus, and its placenta, in which nothing' uncommon 
was obferved; and although the uterus remained of an unufual fize, yet the pains 
not recommencing, there was- no fufpicion entertained but that its bulk was occa- 
fioned by coagulated' blood. On the third day the pains became violent, and this 
monfter was born. Its fhape was fpherical, but fomewhat flattened. It mea- 
fured in its largeft diameter eight inches, and: weighed about eighteen ounces. It 
received its nourilhment by an umbilical chord, to which was attached a portion 
of membranes, and although no placenta was found, it is probable it had a fmall 
one, and that it was inclofed in its own involucrum. It was completely covered 
with a cuticula,. and a little above the part, where the navel-ftring terminated, there 
was a hairy fcalp covering a bony prominence, fomewhat refembling the arch of the 
cranium. On difiedlion it w r as found to be plentifully fupplied with blood veffels, 
proceeding from the navel-ftring, and branching through every part of it. It had a 
fmall brain, and medulla fpinalis continued into a bony theca, with nerves paffing 
from thence through the foramina of the bones ; but no refemblance of any 
thoracic or abdominal vifcera. The reft of its bulk was made up of fat, 
4 By dead-born children I mean; thofe that die after they have been perceived tO' 
move,, that is, generally after four months. Abortions, or deaths before that 
period, may reafonably be eftimated at double this number ; fo that, perhaps, 
x child in 8 dies in the womb,, or in the a£t of coming into the world. . 
' % ; 
burled. 
