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dry, there being no manner of Moifture in the Bag 
(as he call’d it) in which the Bones were contain’d^ 
The fame Digeftive Humour, which difTolvM the Skin 
and Mufcular Parts of the Calf, might (“I prefume) 
reafonably enough be fuppos’d to dilTolve the Car* 
tilages, and ('for ought I know) even part of the Bones 
in a Foetus, I am pretty fure what I fend you is all 
the Butcher found, and I believe you will find them 
compleat 5 but of what Age the Fcetus was, or 
whether, if the Cow had not been kill’d, there 
would have been a total DifTolution, I mu(t leave to 
your more curious Judgment to determine. 
I am inform’d by fome Phyfitians to whom I have ■ 
(hewn thefe Bones, that there are many fuch In- 
‘fiances in Anatomical Writers 5 and particularly one' 
of a Woman, whofe Fcetus diflblv’d fo perfedly, that 
fome of the Bones digefted through her Abdomctr^ 
and (which I think is more ftrange) that the fame 
Woman had Children afterwards. 
Whether thefe Bones would in time have made 
their way through the Abdonjen of the Cow, I 
not able to judge^ all I can aifure you is, That thefe - 
Bones were found as is above exprefs’d, and that the - 
Fad may be proved by Witnefies of undoubted Cre^ 
dit. 
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? OSTS T. 
I Could not omit to fubjoyn^an Obfervation in my 
own Pradice, which aifo may not be unworthy 
your Obfervation; ’Tis of a Compound Fradure, which j 
happen^ on the Thigh of a Young Man about Se- 
venteen::- 
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