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George Gledjlanes, about a Mile from Clogher . This 
Man came to her the Sunday after her Mefiage, and 
found her in an expiring Condition. By this time 
the Impoftumation (which fhe apprehended to be a 
Boil) had broken, and an Elbow of the Child had 
forced itfelf through it, and appeared in View. At 
the Requcft of herfelf and Friends, he undertook to 
adminiftcr Relief to her, and made fo large an Inci- 
fion above and below the Navel, as enabled him, by 
fixing his Fingers under the Jaw of the Foetus , to 
cxtrad it ; in which Operation he met not with the 
lead Impediment. He afterwards looked into her 
Belly, and feeing fomething black, he put in his 
Hand, and extracted, by Pieces, a perfed Skeleton of 
a Child, and feveral Pieces of black putrefied Flefh. 
After the Operation, he fwathed her up ; and in Six 
Weeks flic purfued her domeftic Bufinels. 
She has been in good Health ever fince this won- 
derful Accident happened; only fhe has a Navel- 
rupture, owing to the Ignorance of the Man in not 
applying a proper Bandage. I am, &c. 
J. Copping . 
Clogher (Ireland) June 2. 1738. 
T Have feen the Woman, of whom I fent you 
the furprifing Account, with her Husband, 
and inquired more particularly into the Fad; but 
hope to be ftill a little more particular, when I fee the 
Man who extraded the Child. They are fo ignorant, 
that, with their bad Language, I could not make my- 
felf quite Mafter of what they faid ; but, if they fpcak 
true, there is fomething more furprifing than the 
former 
