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time Hie told me, fhe had fome Reafon to believe 
fhe had conceived with Child. 
I then examined her, and found the Os 'Tinea 
intirely clofe. I was not very curious in my Exa- 
mination at this time; taking it for granted, from 
what fhe had told me, that Nature would, in a little 
time, difpofe the Uterus to difeharge its Contents, 
tho’ at prefent there was not the Jeaft Appearance of 
it. I order'd her an anodyne Clyfter, and a Parego- 
ric to be taken after it ; and the next Day I found 
her Pains continued, which now appeared like a Te- 
nefmus tho’ fo violent, as to prevent her Reft all 
that Night, I then ordered her a Repetition of fhe 
Clyfter and Paregoric ; and the next Day (finding 
her in great Pain, and ftili without any Reft, and 
beginning to be a little feverifh) 1 ordered 8 Ounces 
of Blood to be taken away, and continued the Pare- 
goric, which I like wife order’d her to repeat as fhe 
found Occafion ; from the Ufe of which fhe fome- 
times refted tolerably well; but as the Power of the 
Opiate went off, her Pains always returned. 
Several Days having now paffed without any Al- 
teration, I again examined her, and found the Os 
Tinea ftili as clofe as ever j but, on a ftrider Inquiry, 
I felt fomething, which feem’d to me to be the Head 
of a Child fluctuating in its Membranes. 
I told her my Thoughts of her Cafe, and that it 
was not in my Power to help her; but that Nature 
muft take its Courfe, or at leaft point out a Method 
how to ad. She feemed very much furprifed at my 
Opinion, and asked me, If ever I had met with fuch 
a Cafe before ? I told her, I had been engaged in the 
Pradice of Midwifry upwards of 20 Years ; in all 
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