f *45 ) ... 
Operation. At laft Humanity fo far prevail’d with me, 
as to try a doubtful Method of preferving Life, rather 
than none. 
I told her Mother, and the other Perfons in the 
Room, that Death was inevitable, without making the 
Paffages wider by Incifion, and fo attempting a Deli* 
very , withal apprizing them of the Uncertainty of the 
Event of the Operation. When they few her (as they 
thought) juft expiring, they deliver’d her into my 
Hands, to do with her what I thought fit. 
I immediately thruft my Scalpel into the inferior ob- 
long Orifice, and diredly cut into the Orifice of the 
Vagina • fo brought them into one : Then prefently with 
my ScifTors, foipp’d the tranfverfe hlembrane. This 
being done, I eafily introduced my Hand, felt the 
Head of the Child, and with my Finger thruft into 
its Mouth, drew forth a Female Infant, living and well 
form’d, to my own Surprize and Admiration of all. 
Thus was this Gordian Knot, at laft, happily cut, that 
cou’d not be unty’d. 
Ever fince Ihe was deliver’d, in the Manner recited, 
fhe hath fuffer’d a Trolapfus uteri, , upon the leaft 
{landing or walking. I propos’d to remedy this by a 
Suture, as is pradis’d in the Cafe of the Vulva break- 
in 0- into the Anus ^ but (lie wou d by no means admit 
of it: So that file almoft continually labours under a 
procidentia uteri , and the Body of the Womb and 
Vagina are fo corroded by the Acrimony of the Urine, 
that there are four or five Ulcers form’d upon them. Be- 
fides this Inconvenience, feme of the thinner Parts of the 
Excrement aredifeharg’d at the Bottom of this largeClefr, 
and by introducing my Finger at the Bottom of the Cleft, 
I can eafily thruft the Top of it thro’ the Anus : which 
is an Argument that there cou’d not be 5 or 6 Inches 
between the oblong Orifice and the Anus , as is alien- 
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