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VII. Remark of the Cafe of a poor Woman 
who had a Foetus in her Abdomen jor 
HIS poor Woman, about Nine Years fince. 
was with Child, and, at the Expiration of the 
ulual Time, was attempted to be delivered. The 
Child was fo far advanced in the Paflage, that the 
Midwife declared, that in lefs than Two Minutes the 
Child would be in the World 5 but, on the Woman's 
fuddenly turning herfelf, the Child dipt from the 
Midwife, and could not be found by her again. 
Previous to her being pregnant, fhe had been 
afflidted with the Venereal Difeafe, and had had a 
violent Difcharge of a fetid Matter from the Uterus , 
and was then under the Care of Mr. Balgay ? Surgeon, 
who favoured me with being prefent when he opened 
the Body. — She had been lalivated once or twice 
in our Hofpitals, but to no Purpofe. After the 
Time of attempting to deliver her, to the Hour of her 
Death, (be had prodigious Difcharges of a fetid Gleet, 
and frequently indigefted Matter with Blood from the 
Uterus. There appeared a Tumour on the Right 
Side, which was moveable to the other, though its 
Attachment was chiefly to the Right. She was 
troubled with a Suppreflion of Urine, ever flnee the 
Attempt of Delivery, and within this Twelvemonth 
went to Stool in a Cloth infenftbly, and what Faces 
defeended into the Return, were immediately dif- 
charged.- — She gradually wafted from a hale lufty 
Woman, 
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