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by the Ufe of emollient Fomentations. He now is 
perfe&ly found, and in a good State of Health, walks 
ftrait, and his Thigh is not any fhorter than the other. 
This is the true State of the Cafe. I am, 
SIR , 
Bradford, Jan. 15 . 1 739- Tour humble Servant > 
William Wright. 
ILL An Account of a monjlrous Foetus, refem- 
bling a hooded Monkey: Communicated by 
Mr . William Gregory of Rochefter. 
A Woman, aged 44, of an athletic Body, con- 
ceived with Child a little before Chriftmas 
1730. upon which enfued all the ufual Symptoms of 
Pregnancy. Soon after Conception, fome Fellows 
who travel the Country, with a Bear and a Monkey , 
placed themfelves before the Woman's Door, in order 
to make Divcrfion for the Populace. The Monkey 
had a Hood on, which reached to his Shoulders, of 
which the Woman took prodigious Notice 5 and ail 
the time the Monkey was playing his Tricks, in turn- 
ing over a Stick, &c. the Woman could not keep her 
Eyes off from him. Some fmall time after, the Wo- 
man met a Man of a thin, pale, difmal Afpeft, upon 
whom fhe looked very earneftly, and thought his 
Face to be (to a Tittle) like the Monkey’s Face. 
When the Woman was quick with Child, and the 
Foetus began to move, the Woman felt it turn over 
and 
