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As to your communicating the above account to 
theRoyal Society, I beg that may be as you think pro- 
per : though, I fhould fiippofe it would not prove 
unacceptable to the medical members of that learned 
body; as it may fhew, that the cafe already recorded 
in the Philofophical Tranfadtions of laft year is not 
a Angular one. I wifli the glove, I fend you, was 
as perfect as 1 have feen fome of them ; but, as it is, 
I beg your acceptance of it. 
With the human glove, you will receive a curioflty, 
which I think not inferior to the glove ; to wit, a 
very fmall foetus, brought into the world at the fame 
time with a live child at its full growth. The wo- 
man was delivered before I came to her : on ex- 
amining the placenta, a fubftance appeared fome- 
what unufual ; and on walking it clean, I difeovered 
the foetus abovementioned. It had no vilible com- 
munication with the placenta, but was fqueezed flat, 
though net in the leaf! putrid, andieemed fhrivelled. 
I don’t remember a cafe like this mentioned, except 
in Smellie’s, vol. ii. p. 85, where he relates one from 
the Academy of Sciences at Paris, nearly flmilar to 
this. May we not fuppofe the woman to have been 
with child of twins ; and that this, dying, was not 
difeharged, as was mod likely to happen, but re- 
mained till the time of the natural birth, when they 
were both expelled together ? 
I am, very refpedt fully. 
Gentlemen, 
Your mold obedient, 
and verv humble fervant, 
* 
Jofeph Warner. 
XXXIX. 
Hatton Garden, 
Nov. 22, 1770. 
