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of a phyfician, I undertook, by making a circular 
incifion round the navel, to enlarge the orifice into 
the cavity of the abdomen , in order to extract th z fe- 
tus that way : but the woman being very weak, and 
much emaciated, I could now only take off the fca - 
The next day, I extracted one whole arm, fome 
ribs, part of the vertebra , &c. and, the day follow- 
ing, the greateft: part of the remaining foetus , except 
the cranium , which feem’d to adhere to the inteif ines. 
This determined me to proceed very cautioully, and 
not to attempt the removal of it at once, but piece- 
meal, and by degrees, as opportunity would give me 
leave ; which I did with my forceps : but, notwith- 
ftanding all my care, the fharp edges of the broken 
pieces of the cranium tore the intcfiines, fo that the 
faces iflued from the wound at every drefiing for 
feveral weeks together. 
The wound was daily drefs’d with dry lint, fpi- 
rituous fomentations, and cataplafms. Injections, 
made of fack and warm water, were found of 
great ufe, thrown in in large quantities; and (what 
is well worth obfervation) feveral parts of the bones, 
as the tibia, fibula , &c. were difcharg’d by the 
vagina. 
By the means above-mention'd, and proper band- 
ages, the wound was thoroughly deterged, incarned, 
and, by the ufe of epulotics, completely cicatrized ; 
and the woman is now perfectly recovered, and fince 
grown fat.” 
A r . B. 
