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XXII. An Account of an extra-uterine Con- 
ception ; by Starkey Myddelton, M. 2). 
Loiidon-, March a8. 1745. 
Read March 28. A LTHO’ extra-uterine Conceptions 
l74v XJL have frequently appear’d from Cafes 
of undoubted Authority, many of which hand now 
upon the Records of the Royal Society neverthelefs I 
have thought a Doftrine of fo extraordinary a Nature 
cannot be toohrongly fupported, as it is of the highefi: 
Confcquence, as well in eftablifhing the received 
Opinions of Conception in general ; as in regulating 
the Judgment and Practice of thofe who are more 
particularly employed in the Bufinefs of Midwifry. 
I fhall therefore make no Apology for laying be- 
fore this Learned Society a Cafe which affords fuch 
convincing Proofs of this Do&rine, and comes at 
the fame time too well attefted to admit of any 
Doubt, either as to the Faft, or the Circumftances. 
On the 28th of O Bober laft, I was fent for to a 
Woman of about 42 Years of Age. When I came, 
1 was told by the Patient, that the had been taken 
with a Flooding the Day before 5 which a little fur- 
prifed her, as having been very irregular in her men- 
kraal Difcharges for near a Year before. 
At the fame time fhe complained of a great Pain 
in her Belly and Loins, with a continual Forcing both 
forward and backward 5 which hill continued, tho* 
Sier Flooding was then in a manner Bopp’d. 
I order’d her a gentle Paregoric for that Night, and 
the next Day I found her in great Pain j at which 
3 time 
