346 Dr. Garthshoke’s Remarks on 
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Margaret Waddjngton, aged twenty-one, a poor woman 
of the townfhip of Lower Darwin, near Blackburn in Lancaffiire, 
formerly delivered of one child at the full term of pregnancy, 
conceived a lecond time about the beginning of December 
1785, and from that period became affedled with the ufual 
fymptoms that attend breeding. At the end of the fir (l 
month, fhe became lame, complained of conliderable pains in 
her loins, and the enlargement of her body was fo remarkably 
rapid, that fine was then judged by her neighbours to be almoft 
half gone with child. At the end of the fecond month fhe 
found herfelf fomewhat larger, and her breeding complaints 
continued to increafe. When the third month was completed, 
fine thought herfelf fully as large as fhe had formerly been in 
her ninth month, and to her former fymptoms of hauled, vo- 
miting, lamenefs, and pain of the loins, fine had now added a 
diftreffing fhortnefs of breath. She continued to increafe fo 
rapidly in lize, that fhe thought fine could perceive herfelf 
growing larger every day, and file was under the frequent 
neceffity of widening her cloaths. When fire reckoned herfelf 
eighteen weeks gone, fhe firft perceived fomewhat indiftindtly 
the motion of a child. By the 20th of April, 1786, all her 
complaints were become much more diftreffing ; fhe had much 
tenfion and pain over all the abdomen, her vomiting was in- 
ceffant, and fhe now could not make water but with the utmofl 
difficulty. The fymptoms being palliated by Mr. Lancaster, 
fhe advanced in her pregnancy to Monday the 24th of April, 
when being fuppofed to have arrived at the twentieth week, 
fhe was feized with labour pains. Thefe continued gradually 
to increafe till the next day, about two in the afternoon ; at 
which time I was fent for, Mr. Lancaster being abfent, 
and 
