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to fubmit that to the Credit of my Opinion, who 
had before frequently felt it. 
Thus (he continued for about a Fortnight after this 
Vilitj when, calling on her one Day, file told me, 
fhe was much eafier than {he had been j and that 
fomething came conftantly draining away by the 
Anus , of a very offenfive Smell, which, upon Exa- 
mination, appeared to be true Pus. I now began 
to think Dr. Nichols’s Opinion of her Cafe the mod 
eligible, and the rather, as it was not inconfiftent 
with my own Sentiments, that there had been a 
Child ; which, being now dead, might have given 
Occafton for the forming fuch an Abfcefs. 
In this State of violent Pain (he continued to the 
Time of her Death, which happen’d on the 28th of 
January, being thirteen Weeks from the firft of her 
Illnefs; when, by her particular Defire, I open’d her, 
in the Prefence of Dr. Bamber , Dr. Nicholls, Dr. 
Eaton , and Mr. Jones Surgeon, &c. 
After having divided the Integuments of the Abdo- 
men, every thing, at firft View, appeared in a healthy 
State. On turning afide the Inteftines, I found the 
Uterus found and perfeft, and of a Size common to 
Women who have had Children; but, in the Place 
of the Right Fallopian Tube, there appeared a large 
Tumour, formed by the Expanfton of the Tube ex- 
tending itfelf from the Os Ilium towards the Extre- 
mity of the Sacrum. Upon opening it, we difco- 
ver’d a Mafs of fetid Pus, in which the Bones of a. 
Foetus , of about 5 or 6 Months old,, were buried. 
Thefe Bones were, for the moft part, wholly divefted 
of their Flefla } fo that the Edges of the thin Bones 
muB, of Neceffity, cut and irritate from every Morion 
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