( V* ) 
She mended apace to the Admiration of every body 
thereabouts, recovered furprizingly, and lived in perfed 
Health from that time, which was in Auguft 1701, 
till October 1714. when (lie died in ten Days Sicknefs. 
That this Tumour, or rather Dropfy of the Ovari- 
um, proceeded from the Midwife’s Rafhnefs in pulling 
away the Placenta , not knowing how to feparate it 
from the 'Uterus (kilfully, feems to me plain from 
what the Woman herfelf told me, and what fell out af- 
terwards. 
The 'Placenta adhering fad to the 'Uterus , required 
more Art to bring it away than (he was Midrefs of, 
which probably induc’d her to ufe Violence } by which 
(he forc’d down the Fundus 'Uteri ^ fo overdrain’d the 
Ligaments, and all that’s appended to ’em ^ efpecially 
the Ligamentum latum of the left Side and its Ovari- 
um, which may be reafonably allow’d to have been 
hurt in the Relaxation with the red. Hence the Ela- 
dicity of thefe laded Parts was not only impair’d, but 
the fmall Lymphaticks ruptur’d, fo that the extra vafa- 
ted Lympha rufhing out, thicken’d, and not being able 
to recirculate, dilated the injur’d Ovarium , and thus 
increas’d the Tumour, and the Parts being already ex- 
ceflively didended, and being no longer able to refid the 
new Influx of frefh Secretions, ruptur’d alfo, and by 
Degrees augmented to that huge and enormous Bulk. 
Cyprianus in his Letter to Sir Thomas Millington , 
gives feveral Indances of the Mifchiefs committed by 
Midwives, and other ignorant Perfons. When a Pla- 
centa adheres, then (fays he) they tear all before ’em, 
by pulling rudely, they force down the Fundus 'Ute- 
ri, confequently do Violence to the Ovaria and other 
Parts, whence follow Inflammations, &c. 
For eft us\, /. z 8. Obf. 80. fays, that an over-bold 
Midwife pulled out the Placenta too hadily, and that 
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