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feems too in different ways ; for fome came by the 
Navel, others from the Womb the natural Way. She 
had great Pain at each time. 
The former Account fays, fhe purfued her do- 
meftic Bufinefs: She might be about the Houfe, but 
fhe was i y Months confined to the Houfe. I have 
examined the Rupture, and can put a Finger a pretty 
Way up into the Body. Mr. Dobbs, I hear, an emi- 
nent Surgeon at Dublin , thinks there may be Relief, 
and that the Rupture may be much helped, and the 
Guts reduced. I queftion whether he will think fo, 
when he fees her. However, I have colle&ed about 
Four Pounds for her among the Gentlemen that vifit 
my Lord Bilhop, (hall buy her fome Cloaths, and 
fend her to Dublin about io Days hence, to the 
Infirmary. She was fond of going, but her ignorant 
Prieft, and fome other ignorant Neighbours, told her 
they would keep her till fhe dies: But, upon my 
anfwering thofe Difficulties, fhe confents to go $ her 
Husband will carry her j and they are fo thankful to 
me for entering fo much into their Condition, that 
they now fay fhe fhall go to London , or where-ever I 
pleafe. Iam forry the feveral Bones extracted were 
carried away by different Phyficians, that I cannot 
procure one to be fent to you; which, with the 
Account, might find a Place in your furprifing Col- 
lection. 
I have wrote fo long a Letter, that, by way of 
Apology, and to make fome Amends, I muft make 
it hill longer by another Account, which a worthy 
Clergyman gave me by Strength of Memory, from the 
Letter of a Phyfician to him. 
William 
