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labour. Accordingly, a midwife Was fent for j who, 
from the violence of the pains, expedted, that fhe 
would foon be delivered ; but, to her great fur- 
prize, nothing enfued but a lofs of blood, and the 
pains were confiderably abated. A fever immedi- 
ately came on, which call her into an exceftive 
faintnefs, and lofs of ftrength, accompanied with a 
naufea. 
On the 26 of May, I was defired by her husband 
to vilit her 3 and, by the account fhe gave me, I 
much fufpecfted, that fhe muft have mifcalculated 
with regard to her time j and I propofed to examine 
her : but fhe, out of a miftaken modefty, not com- 
plying, I contented myfelf with cooling inje&ions, 
mild cathartics, and cordial powders, &c. ; by the 
ufe of which medicines fhe grew better; and, on the 
26 of March following, undertook to walk a journey 
of 1 f miles. 
I heard no more of her for the prefent ; but, on the 
27 of April 1750, the pains returned, very much like 
thofe of labour ; which obliged her husband to call 
me out of bed. I immediately gave her an ano- 
dyne, which abated her pains, and compofed her to 
reft. 
On the 14 of May, fhe felt a pricking pain in her 
navel, with a fwelling and rednefs, which, in a few 
days, appear’d like a boil ; when, being defired to 
infpedb the tumour, I applied an emollient cataplafm. 
The next morning, upon removing my dreflings, a 
fetid matter enfued ; whereupon, dilating the fmall 
(inus with my fciflars, the fcapula of a foetus pre- 
fented itfelf. On the 25 of July., by the dire&ion 
