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This laft labour, in which floe was attended by the 
widow Mauger , a midwife of the fame town, be- 
gan with fo conliderable a difcharge of water, that it 
was judged, not without reafon, that her pregnancy 
was attended with a dropfy of the uterus. 
The firfh child was a girl, well formed, who died 
in the birth, folely from the obflacles which were oc- 
cafioned, during thecourfe of the labour, by the fe- 
cond child, or monfter, which I am going to defcribe. 
All the lower part of this child, from a finger’s 
breadth above the navel, was likewife a female, to- 
lerably well formed, except that on her left foot the 
had but four toes, joined together by a membrane, 
like the web of a duck’s foot. 
But all the parts of this foetus, above the navel, 
compofed a perfect mold, a fhapelefs nrnfs, reprefented 
in the two following figures, of which it will be 
neceftary to read the explanation, in order to have 
a juft idea of the external appearance of this 
monfter. 
The drawings are reduced to almoft half the na- 
tural fize, both as to length and breadth ; from whence 
it may be obferved, that each of the children, who 
had lived to their full time, had acquired, in this 
dropfical womb, a bulk pretty near equal to that of 
other children, born at full time, when twins, and 
not very thriving. The full lize of our monfter 
was twelve inches fix lines, and the navel was in the 
middle of this fpace. 
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