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About Ten Years afterward a much more wonderful i 
and incredible one happen’d there, which puzzled thc^ 
Philofophers to apprehend, or believe. It comes very 
well attefted by Mr. Bayle, who firft publiihed an Hifto- 
ry of it in the JoHrnal'des Scavansy A. D. 167^. Soon 
after M. Nk, Blegny did the fame in a particular Tra6l 
with Figures, which I have by me: And afterward 
Mr. Oldenhnrgh put an Extract of it into the BhiUfophkal 
Tranfd&knsy No. 139. » 
‘ A Woman, A, D- 1652. came to her full time of 
‘ bearing, but altbo’ fhe had ail the Symptoms ufual 
‘ at that feafon, no Child came. She continued in that 
‘ Condition twenty Years, ftill feeling the' Child within 
‘ her. From that time fhe felt not any motion it had. 
‘ In June 1708. fhe died, and the next day was opened. 
‘ In her Belly, without the Womb, a dead Child was 
‘ found lapt up in thGOmentum: It weigh’d Eight pounds 5 
‘ and altho* it was kept in that hot Seafon' three Days 
^ out of the Mothers Belly, it did nor (link. Mr. Bleg^ 
ny was curious to Infped, and give a particular Account 
of this wonderful thing to the World, not only in the 
TraQ: above-mentioned, but alfo in the firft Volume of 
his Zodiacus Medicnsy Ohf, 9. with very remarkable, 
and learsed Animadverfions. 
Before either of thefe appeared in Frattce , 
there happen’d one in Holland to H. Rhoonhuys^- ‘ A' 
‘ Woman with Child, at her full time, was four Days 
‘ in Labour, and although (he had fo many Midwives, 
‘ could not be Deliver’d. Our Author was called, De» 
‘ cember 1658. found the Internum Uteri Ofadum dofe 
‘ (hut: Without Flowings, or other Fore-runners of 
‘ Delivery. He finding the common Paifage fo clofely 
‘ (hut up, and. a very painful Tumour above the Navel, , 
‘ pro- 
