Dr. Garthshore’s Remarks , See. 345 
P. S. As one proof of its Angularity, I, many months 
ago, employed various friends at Peterfburg, Berlin, Vienna, 
Lyons, Paris, and Ghent, to collect for me well authenticated 
cafes of this kind, and I have not as yet been able to procure 
any. 
Copy of a letter from Dr. Blane, Phyfician to his Majefty’s 
Navy and to St. Thomas’s Plofpital, F. R. S. to Dr. Garth- 
flaore, Phyfician to the Britifh Lying-in Hofpital. 
D E A R S I R, * Sackville-Street, June 22, 1786. 
A few days ago, I received from the country an account of a 
woman who was delivered of five children at a birth in April 
lafl. As your extenfive experience and reading in this line of 
practice enable you to judge, how far this fa£t is rare or inte- 
refting, I fubmit it to you, whether it deferves to be commu- 
nicated to the Royal Society. Mr. Hull, the gentleman who 
fent me the cafe, is a very fenfible and ingenious practitioner of 
phyfic at Blackburn, in Lancafiaire. He attended the labour 
himfelf from beginning to end, and his character for fidelity 
and accuracy is well known to me, as he was formerly a pupil 
at the hofpital to which I am phyfician ; fo that no fact can* 
be better authenticated. He mentions alio, that he has pre- 
ferved all thofe five children in fpirits; and, if delired, he will 
fend them for the infpeftion of the Society *. 
I am, with great regard, &c. 
Gilbert BlAne. 
* They were accordingly lent ; and having been exhibited to the Society when 
this Paper was read, are now depolited in the Mule uni ol Mr John Hunter. 
d d d 2 
Margaret 
