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former Account mentioned : For the feveral Parts of 
the latter, or rather the former, Fcetus t were ex- 
trading by Degrees, from July to Chriftmas. 
She had, by their Account, been married about 
Eight or Ten Years before her firft Pregnancy. 
As well as I could apprehend them, fhe had a Mid- 
wife at the proper Time, in her firft Pregnancy, for 
Eight Days, Day and Night: When the Symptoms 
difappeared, the Swelling decreafed, and People con- 
cluded there was no Child. 
This Child was carried for Seven Years, till fhe had 
been again pregnant for Nine Months ; about which 
time there was a Swelling in her Navel about the 
Bignefs of a Goofe-egg, which broke in a fmall Ori- 
fice, of itfelf, and difcharged a watry Humour. 
She had a Midwife, and Three or Four Phyficians, 
who gave her over, and left her as a dying Woman. 
From this Orifice ftarted the Elbow of a Child, which 
hung fome Days by the Skin, vifible to abundance: 
At length fhe cut it off for her own Relief, 
When O Neile came, (whom I have not yet feen, 
but (hall foon) fhe begged him to help her. The 
Man was frightened, and went to fleep ; but, when he 
got up, gave her a large Draught of Sack, and, I fup- 
pofe, took onehimfelfj when he opened the Place, 
and made fuch a Hole as the Man deferibes to be as 
large as his Hat. He put in his Hand, took hold of 
the Second Bone of the Child, and, pulling it back- 
ward and forward to loofen it, in a little time ex- 
traded the Child. After this, looking into the Hole, 
and feeing fomething black, he put in his Hand, and 
extra&ed other Bones. Some Bones ftiil remained, 
which, as I faid, were extraded at different times, it 
feems 
