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i woman the perineum was lacerated to the fphin&er 
ani. A future was 1 attempted, but without effeft ; fhe 
recovered, but is troubled with prolapfus uteri. 
5 had large and painful fwellings of the' legs and thighs. 
but. recovered. 
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105- therefore of thefe, or 1 in 18, had preternatural or labo- 
rious births, or fuffered in conlequence of labour. 
Of this number of cafes 43, or 1 in 44, were attended 
with particular difficulty or. danger; and 7 only, or 
1 in 270, died. The remaining 62 were delivered 
and recovered with little more than the common 
affifhnce : and 
1792 had natural labours, not attended with any particular 
accidents. 
Of two women the uterus was retroverted in the third or 
fourth month of their pregnancy ; but in both the uterus was 
replaced, and the women went to their full time, and brought 
forth live children. 
Befides the accidents above enumerated, it feems right to 
obferve, that many of the women were afflicted with fevere 
after-pains, or had what is called the milk-fever; but as thefe 
complaints were generally relieved in three or four days, and 
-did not feem to have any influence in retarding their recovery. 
Or to affett their future healths, no notice is taken of them. 
Some women alfo had fymptoms of incipient prolapfus uteri, 
who had not before been troubled with that complaint ; but as 
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