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enlarged to a prodigious Degree, and unite with each 
other, but leave a Dent between them which feels 
like a Suture. They are enlarged, I believe, to fix 
Inches long, and three broad : It is all offified ; the 
Midwife and Nurfe fay it was foft at firft : The reft 
of the Head appears very well. 
This Child is feven Days old : I have reduced the 
diflocated Bones, tho' fome with great Difficulty ; 
for the Ends of the Bones and Cartilages feemed to 
be all offifying 5 and there feems to be an univerfal 
Anchylofis coming on. I could not reduce the right 
Foot well; it*was ail offified, with the Bones difplaced, 
and the Extenjor Tedis ^Pollicis longus was con- 
traded, and had drawn the Foot almoft round. The 
Jaw-Bone was alfo diflocated, which the Midwife 
could eafily put in its Place, and the Chin- Stay fup- 
ported it very well ; that is, almoft well, only apt 
to flip out on one Side. The Midwife and Nurfe 
fay, they could eafily, for the two firft Days, put ail 
the Bones in their Places with Eafe, but they con- 
tinually fell out again. 
The Mother receiv'd a Fall a Fortnight before De- 
livery, and jhe fanfies the Bones were difplaced with 
the Fall, tho' fhe did not hurt herfeif: But whether 
it is from thence, or from fome Vice in the Fluids, 
I fhall not determine. If it were not for feverai Ex- 
oftofiss and Anchylofis s in feverai Parts, I ftiould 
have imagin'd the Child (tho' fo young) were rickety } 
but for the above Reafon it cannot be that. The 
Child feems at prefent lufty and ftrong, but I think 
will foon be other wife ; the Woman is lufty, and 
walks out about her Bufincfs, tho’ but a Week ago 
deliver’d ; >ancl fhe has fix Children befidcs, all very 
healthy. 
