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< more clearly appear in the Purfuit of this Account, 
‘ I ordered her anodyne and quieting Medicines to re- 
* lieve her Pain, which Ihe was obliged to repeat at 
« Icaft every twelve Hours, with proper Cordials to fup* 
* port Nature; and fometimes Clyfters. Thus matters 
* continued to the twentieth of the faid Month, 
‘ that for fome Days before, a Water tinged with Blood 
* came away, as fhe imagined, through the u4nus^ and 
« which fhe believed proceeded from the Piles, with 
‘ which fhe was fometimes troubled. 
‘ On the twentieth, her Husband came to me about 
« fix of the Clock in the Morning, telling me that the 
« Midwife had brought away a Foetus^ but could not 
< compleat her Bufinefs-, whereupon I immediately 
« went to the Midwife, who upon my coming told me 
« that a Foetus was protruded through the Anusj, and 
« to confirm it, defired me to examine, which I did im- 
‘ mediately, and found the Funis UMhilicalis\i^x\^\Vi^ 
« out about two or three Inches beyond the Anus^ 
‘ and palling up through the fame : I therefore paffed my 
< two fore Fingers by the String into the Anus ; when 
< I found about three Inches up, an Opening, as I then 
< judged, into the Uterus, wide enough to admit the 
‘ Ends of three or four Fingers, and the Funis Urn- 
4 hilicalis palling into it ; from hence I was allured that 
^ the Foetus came out that Way. I endeavoured, with 
c Fingers palled into the Opening, to bring away 
< the Placenta ; but as it was very rotten, it tore a- 
c way between my Fingers, fo that I was forced to 
< bring it in fmall Pieces, and was at laft obliged to 
‘ leave a large Part of it. The Septum or Partition 
‘ between the Anus and Fagina was entirely whole, 
‘ and no Perforation through it. From thefe Appear- 
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