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when (he had again the Signs of Labtfur, and the fame 
Midwife afTur’d her as before, and ihe perfifting in her 
former Refolution, her Pains, after a Day or two went 
off Soon after her Belly fwell’d to a furprizing Size, by 
which (he got Subfiftance for her Family by being fecn 
as a Shew. I faw her firft above twenty Y ears fince, when 
.her Belly was almoft even with her Chin, the Weight of 
it fogreat, that file was oblig’d to fupport it with a Stool. 
She could not {land without the help of a Rope from the 
Cieling, which afiifled her in changing her Pofiureof fit<- 
ting She flept commonly with her Arms folded on her 
Belly, and her Head relied between them. She had no 
fwelling in her Legs .* every other Part emaciated as ufuat 
in the like Cafes. Thus this poor Creature liv’d without 
any other confiderable Complaint above Thirty Years, 
the molt remarkable Circumllance, 1 think, irs her C-ife. 
She died in Ma.) t 1 7 1 f, when this appear'd to be an A '{cites. 
I need not mention the State the common Teguments 
mud neceflarily be in from fo great a Diflenfion, which had 
diflorted many of her Ribs, and forc’d the Diaphragm fo 
high, that it was furprizing to find her breathing could be 
fo long continu’d. The Water was all contain’d in the Du- 
plicature of the Peritoneum, 13 Gallons befides a Quart 
that was fpilc .* it was faltilh, with feme little fat upon 
it, and towards the latter Running ting’d with Blood as 
ufual. There was not any Water in the Cavity of the 
Abdomen , except what was contain’d in a kind of Bladder 
of the Shape 1 have fent, Fig 3 r . which lay a -crofs the Fun- 
dus Uteri . This was divided by a Cartilaginous Subfiance 
into two Cavities ; in one there was a Pint and a half, in 
the other three Parts of a Pint of Water. I believe it was 
this (I know not how,) impos’d on the Midwife. The Ute- 
rus was of the natural Size without any Alteration, except 
that the Os Tinc<e and Collum minus were fill’d with a gritty 
Subfiance, hard as Stone, which 1 take to be the Humour 
fepair 
