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XXX. An Account of an extraordinary acephalous Birth, 
By W. Cooper, M, D. in a Letter to William Hunter, 
M. D. F, R. S. 
Redde, April 27, 
1775 - 
DEAR SIR, 
TAKE the liberty to remit you an ac- 
count of the delivery of a very curious 
acephalous moniler, accompanied with a fhort defcrip- 
tion of its anatomical ftru^lure. If, after a perufal of it, 
you Ihould apprehend it may be acceptable to the Royal 
Society, I beg that you will do me the honour to lay it 
before them. 
Mrs. BRACKETT, of Clerkenwell Clofe, aged twenty- 
three years, was, at the end of her firft pregnancy, by 
a natural labour, delivered of a perfed: female child, 
on Friday the 8th of October, 1773, at feven o’clock in 
the morning. The attending midwife, Mrs. ay res, foon 
perceived by the abdominal tumour that there was ano- 
ther child. After waiting about three hours, a flooding 
came on ; but without pain, or any advancement of the 
fecond delivery . The hemorrhage producing faintnefs, 
debility, and danger, the attendants and midwife were 
alarmed, and I was fent for. When I came, I found 
her in the fituation above defcribed; and therefore 
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