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I. Jn Account of the prteternatural Delivery of a 
Foetus at the Anus ^communicated hy iir.Nourfe, 
one of the AJftflant Surgeons to St. Bartholo- 
mew VHofpital 5 Dcmonftrator of Anatomy at 
Surgeons- Hall, and F.^ S. 
T H E kind Invitation I had from Mr. Gijfard 
the Surgeon, to afllfl: at the Opening of a Pa- 
tient of his, gives me an Opportunity to lay 
before this Society, a Cafe as extraordinary, and I 
believe very like what Monf. Littre has given us in 
the Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences at 
PariSy Ann, lyox*, (w^.) where a Foetus had no 
other Nidus than the Ovary ^ and was brought forth 
through the Return, The Symtoms previous to this 
prasternatural Birth, the forementioned Gentleman has 
very faithfully drawn up j be pleafed therefore to take 
them in his own Words. 
‘ I was fent for about the middle of Augujt laft, to 
‘ a Woman who then judged herfelf to be between 
‘ three and four Months gone with Child j fhe had all 
‘ the Symptoms preceding a Mifcarriage, and upon 
‘ touching, I found the Oj fomewhat dilated and 
< fpread, from whence I concluded a Mifcarriage would 
‘ enfue, and therefore ordered what I thought proper 
« to promote it^ but I was fometime after informed by 
‘ her Husband, that although Ihe before believed that 
‘ {he had mifcarried, yet that fhe now thought herfelf 
‘ Quick ; as feeling fomewhat to move within her Belly, 
‘ agreeable to what fhe had perceived after former 
‘ d^ickenings. Thus it-paffed on for about fix or feven 
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