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upon examining *he Parts, every thing appear’d as 
before. 
October 14. i/47« being greatly emaciated by 
conftant Pains, &c. fhe was admitted a Patient in 
Guy’s Hofpital, where fhe died the 7th of Novem- 
ber following, after having labour’d under the Dif- 
trefles and Uneafinefs of carrying a dead Child 
within her, in a manner loofe, in the Cavity of the 
Abdomen upwards of 1 6 Years. 
The Day after her Death I open’d her, in the Pre- 
fence of Dr. Nesbit, Dr. Nichols , and Dr. Law- 
rence, when the Uterus , and the feveral other Con- 
tents of the Abdomen appear’d (nearly) in their na- 
tural State, but on the right Side within the Os 
Ilium a Child prefented itfelf, which was attach’d 
to the Ilium and neighbouring Membranes by a Por- 
tion of the Teritonreum , in which the Fimbria and 
Part of the right Fallopian Tube feem’d to lofe 
itfelf. 
The Child feem’d no-ways putrid; but the Inte- 
guments were become fo callous, and chang’d from 
their natural State, that the whole feem’d to refera- 
ble a cartilaginous Mafs, without Form or Diftinc- 
tion : The Legs indeed were diftinguifhable, though 
they were much wafted and diftorted. 
Upon opening the callous Integuments of the 
Head and Face of the Child, the Bones appear’d per- 
fectly form’d, with a few Spots of tophous Concre- 
tions on them. 
This Account may ferve to convince thofe who 
are of Opinion that Boys are conceived on the 
right Side, and the Girls on the left > as this Wo- 
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