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VI* A Letter from Mr. John Bonnet, Surgeon 
at Fowye in Cornwall, to Claudius Amyand, 
Ef<fo Serjeant-Surgeon to his Majefty, F. R.S. 
concerning the preternatural Structure of the Pu- 
denda in a Woman , dejcribd in Phil. Tranfa<5t. 
N° 3 79 - 
A S there appears to be fome Difference in the Ac- 
counts of the remarkable Strudure of the Euden - 
da, <Scc. of the Woman of Lanteglafs , near Fowye , 
publifh’d in the FhilofofihicalTranfaffions N° 379. 
I take the Liberty of giving you a particular Ac- 
count of what I obferv’d, with refped to this Matter. 
This I am the rather embolden’d to do, as I repeatedly 
obferv’d the wonderful Strudure of the Parts, before 
the Birth approach’d, and before I was oblig’d to make 
the Incilion. 
This Woman was about 23 Years old when fhe was 
married, and fome time after conceiv’d. As fhe was 
confcious of the preternatural Strudure of the Parts, 
and her Mother apprehenfive of the Danger that wou’d 
attend the Delivery under fuch unhappy Circum fiances j 
they apply ’d to me about the 7th Month, in order to 
engage my A (lift a nee. 
On viewing the Abdomen , I made the following Ob- 
fervations ^ There was no Sign of the Umbilicus j but 
about three Inches lower, than that is regularly plac’d in 
Perfons naturally form’d, there was a fpongy, ffelhyEx- 
tuberance, nearly of the Shape and Bignefs of an Hen- 
Egg; Not, as is faid in Mr. O ... ds Account, compos’d 
of many Lobules invelop’d by diftind Membranes, 
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