( 
* ancesl then concluded that 3 Mortification muH: have 
* begun in the UteruSy and fo from its Contiguity 
‘ be communicated to the Return-, fo that Nature en- 
* deavouring to expel what was contained, and forcing 
‘ it againft this Part already mortified, and confequent- 
* ly ready to give way and feparate upon any PrelTure 
‘ made againft it, produced this Opening, and the Pro* 
‘ trufion of the Foetus through it into the Re^uwy and 
* fo on through the ^nus. 
‘ There was a large Difcharge of grumous Blood 
‘ and other Subftances through the ^nusy which con- 
* tinued coming away until the twenty-fixth of the 
^ aforefaid Month, when the Woman died about three 
‘ of the Clock in the Afternoon, 
* I fhould have obferved that there was a Fulnefs 
* and Hardnefs very perceptible, to be felt outwardly 
< in the fore*part of the Belly, fome diftance below 
‘ the Navel, from the Time that the Foetus came away 
< to her Death ; which upon opening the Body, I was 
* well aflured, was the Uterus forced upwards and 
^ forwards by a Sacculus, which being large and di- 
‘ ftended filled up the Pelvis \ and by its Bulk prefied 
‘ the Uterus forwards. The Foetus was perfed in all 
* its Parts ; but much wafted and Ihrunk from its be- 
‘ ing fome time dead and confequently putrified.’ 
This we thought neceftary to premife an Examination 
of the Parts (which I have here brought) whofe Ap- 
pearances upon Diftedion, were as follow. 
The Vagina, Uterus, Ligament a Rotunda, left 
Ovary, Fallopian Tube, and Ligamentum Latum on 
that fide, together with the Hypogaftrick, and Sper- 
matick VelTeis on the fame Side, were in a natural 
State. Tile Fallopian fube on the right Side, we 
> traced 
