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The extremity of the colon , or the redtum, pafled 
betwixt the bladder and the uterus as ufual. I dif- 
fered all thefe parts, and traced the bladder up to 
the umbilical cord, where it lengthened into a pipe, 
and formed an open urachus. It had not the pyri- 
form fhape of the common bladder. 
It was in making thefe difledions of the kidney - 
liver, and thofe of the pelvis , that I divided the 
principal veiTels, which I fhall mention in the fecond 
examination. 
All thefe inteftines, and efpecially the reSlum , con- 
tained excrements of a light afh colour, but no 
meconium. 
The bladder, although lengthened and continued 
by an urachus , as high as the navel, opened in the 
ufual place betwixt the nymphce. 
The anus was imperforate, and the return, im- 
mediately under the uterus , terminated in a blind 
pouch, attached to fome membranes that went to 
the anus. This pouch was quite full of that fort 
of excrement juft now defcribed. 
Second examination, made the next morning. 
I had confined myfelf, in the firft examination, to 
the Angularity of a want of head, lungs, and heart, 
and of the exiftence of nerves, notwithftanding 
thefe defeds. In this fecond review, the organs of 
the circulation in fuch a produdion, which had 
lived nine months, raifed my curiofity ; but it was 
rather too late for my intire fatisfadion, for I had 
not taken care enough to preferve the internal parts, 
imagining before-hand that they refembled thofe 
