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last, aster more than 3 Years from the timefhe thought her seif P regn ant,stte rcmov’d into the Air, wherc she had notcontinu’d long, before Ihe Lan-guifh’d and Dy’d.

The Corps being laid as advantagioufly as might be, we began our Inci-sion from the Umbilicus transverse the Abdomen to the Ilia : And from thefame Center another Incifion direct to the Os Pubis. Here was now an Ex-pectationon all handsof fömething Rare and Monstrous, when on a suddenone of the Disiecters (little thinking what was so near) in Cutting throughth zPeritonaum, accidentally thrust his Knife too far, and immediatdy therearose a Spring, as it were, of a Limpid Serum or Lympha, as ciear as Waterfrom a Fountain, rising up a very considerable height, and with great Im-petuosity. Having emptied the Containing Part of its Water, which inQuantity did somewhat exceed 2 Gallons, we found its Enclosure was athin transparent Membrane. And when I had tum’d this Membrane to theRight-side, I perceiv’d underneath this outward 7 imick, or (as I thoughtjadheringto it, a more Carnous Subfl ance. We then Divided the Os Pubis tand pafi'ed in a Probe through the Pudenda into the Vagina Uteri, and havingtraced it as far as it went, by loolcing into the Pelvis, and searching for thatCarnous SubstanceI have already spoken of, we found it to be nothing lessthan the Uterus it seif; when Cutring into irs Body we percciv’d the endof the Probe already entered in the Cervix or Neck thereof. So that (whatseem’d to us stränge) wa were at length ascertain’d of theTruth, and con-vinc’d, that the aforesaid Water was contain’d in the External Tunick of theWomb, whofe great Weight had thrust the Body thereof prrfectly on onelide, and hinder’d an admiliien of search from the Vagina, towards the Fun-dus Uteri, the Cervix thereof being kept close as in a True Concep-tion.

One of the great Indications of thisWoman’s Pregnancy, was a Fluxos aWhitifh or Pallid Humour to her Ereafis, which lhe could fqueezeout at plca-fhre, and thought it to be nootherthan Milk ger.erated t herein, in ordtr totheNutrition and Conservarion of a future Birth. She had likewife labour'd,the greatest part of the Time, under a Suppression of the Menses, whofeRefluxto ihe Breafis, when an A’teration had bren indue’d by its Glan-dults, might as I c injectare (ifluing from the Papille under a SubalbidForm ) be takcn for Milk, ar.dgive grounds of the Sufpicion that (he hadCcnceiv'd.

,. om:n TJ ,_ Civ. This Woman was about 50 Years Old ; had been Marry’d, but«ii Wii ‘m yl htd ntver born Child ; had been a Widow for ab.ait 1 o Years before her• h Death, in which time she was much cpprels’d with Gricf, and her Bell}, byson. - U ’i + S a ! mp ' Degrees, began t > 8 well yet not much, till about 4 Years btfore shep. iojo. D/d. In theYear 1A77, at which time fheWtigh’d 21 (> ftj. I advis’dher to Life of Catbartick Hjdragnger, and Diureticis , aster the Ufe ofwhhh for forne rime, she Weigh’d but 200 fo. But stili the MorbifickM *'ter was re-accumu!ated to the Difeafcd Part. St that resolving to sorbearfurther Medicinesj wiihin half a Year aster she Wcighd lyofe. Her Belly

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