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III. An Ac count of a preternatural Tumour on the 
Loins of an Infant , attended with a Cloven 
Spine. Dy Dr. Rutty, Fellow of the Co'lege of 
Thyjtcians , and of the Royal Society. 
*TH H E curious Mr. Buyfcb, in an Obfervation on 
Jf the Spina Bifida , takes notice that other Writers 
have defcrib’d it to be cloven into two equal parts 
longitudinally, as Butchers fplit the Back-bone of an 
Ox or Sheep ; whereas out of ten Subjects, which he 
had an opportunity to examine, not one prov’d to be 
in that manner, the Body of the Vertebra being entire, 
and the Acute Ftoceffes only divided. Pretty near this 
Defcription, is the Spine to be treated of, and I the 
rather trouble this Society with it, becaufe it don’t 
appear by the Tranfadions, that it has as yet come 
before us, 
The Back-bone is of a female Infant fix Days old ; 
whole Mother, when (even Weeks gone with Child, 
upon a fright occafion’d by her Husband’s falling from 
a Horfe and very much bruifing his Loins, gave the 
Embryo this injury ; but notwithflanding (he went out 
her Time, and the Child was full grown. 
There appeared upon the region of the Loins, in 
the fame place where the Father receiv’d his hurt, a 
Tumour about the bignefs of a fmall Turnep, with a 
broad Bafis, around which the Skin was difcolour’d, 
as by an Ecchymcfis , but it grew immediately from 
thence pellucid, like a Veficle rais’d by Q&ntharides , and 
continued fb throughout, except juft at its Apex, where 
was a Subfiance like a Fungus. This Bladder was fill'd 
with 
