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propofed the C<efarean Scdion. The Woman hav- 
ing feen that dreadful Operation made at Paris^ earneft- 
ly defired him to perform it on her. But he,' to obferve 
fome unnecelTary Forms, delay’d it ’till the Woman 
was paft Life: Who he believes might with the Child 
have been preferved, if the Operation bad been done 
when he firft faw-her. 
Opening the Belly after death, he found a Child amidft 
the Intrals 5 and, as he faith, the PUcenta faftned to the 
Colon, and part to the Fundus Uteri 3 and that there was 
a Breach in the Womb capacious enough for the Infant 
to pafs thorough it into the Belly 5 and that Wound he 
thinks was made by a blow, altho* it hurt not the exter- 
nal Parts, nor made Impreffions on the tender Fmhryo, 
I can’t approve, nor will I cenfure the many things in 
his Report liable to exception, and which Criticks will 
-be apt to think abfurd. I prefume to believe he miftook 
the extended Tube for a Matrix, as Fefal did. Erranti 
fsullus termimus. 
A much more famous, and learned Man than he, 
(r. BartholinusC) did the Year after Rhoonhuyfe* s Explora- 
tion, meet fuch an extraneous Feetus lapt up in a Mola^ 
which he found in the Belly of a Woman 5 and thus con- 
jectures pojffum aliud divinare, quam quod feetus 
hlc primo fuerit in Fubis uteri conceptus. He imparted 
this Story iSrft to G. Horjiius, Ep. 58. FoL 4. Afterward 
to the whole World, in the ^id Obfervation of his fixth 
Century. 
jd. £).' 1662. In the City of Aurange, D. Bald- 
rein, and Mr. De la fort found — PuelUm Egregium, optime 
formatum extta uterum. The report of this Difeovery is 
made publick by the famous Sachs, with very learned Re- 
marks. MifeeJL Cur, Vol. i. Qbf no. which he con- 
cludes 
