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any way Torn : duc I do not think that any Person hitherto has been ableto fhew, that the Conception is made in the Testicle or Ovarium, as ic seemsto me that theFact which I have now related manifdlly Demonstrati,

y^thouttht vu 1 ' ^ vornan big with Child came to /' Hotel - Dien to Ly-in of her } d or

rus, .«w«Rjiiy; 4thChild : and aber exceflivc Pains about the Navel and the lower part of<yr m. Sivind. the Bclly by the different Motions ot the Child, .fiie dy’d there, l z OA. 1696.

” ,r + . gj ;ie was q.jickly open’d by M. Colignon and Joui, aihffed by the Chief Mid-

wife, Mad. de G< ue : They found the Child Dead, and not in the Matrixwhich was whole near it. They defer’d a further fearch till the next Day,and fern for many Eminent Physicians and Surgeons. We then cxa-min’d the Bady with Attention; and found that all the Parts that composc theMatrix, bo r h in ward and outward, as also the Vagina were very Sound: It wasas big as it uses to be in Women 10 or 11 Days aster they are brought roBed. The Internat Orifice was of a Livid Colour, occasion’d by the severaltouchingsof it, b-th before and aster her Death. There was no mark of aCicatrice ov Hole, but those of the Procelses call’d Tuba Fallopiana, whichyet were hardly wide enough to ad mit of a Hog’s Bristle. All the Companydid agrec, that the Child was never Conceiv’d in the Matrix, and that itnever had stay’d there. The Right Ttßicle, or Ovary, was very Sound, butthe Tuba und its Fringe were Rotten in the place where ’tis fasten’d to theMembranes of the Peritonaum, which form’d the Rag in which the Child waswrapt. The Lest Tefticle was of the bignesi of a Hen’s Egg, füll of a stinkingSerum, and the Ligaments large; the Tuba und its Fringe were Retten. TheRag was plac’d betwixt fne Matrix and the Straight Gut, in the Cavity whichisiornfd by thebendmg of the C’r Sacrum: The Child was on his Knees, ly-ing towards the Right Side, and sccm’d to have been Dead 7 or 8 Days;lor the Sc .tf-;.kin, or Epidermis did easily separate from the Pa ts under it.The Child had lefc irs Placenta, tho still tasten’d to it by the 'Umbilical Vesescis; and the Placenta being 1 ut of the Vag was on the Lest Side, whencewas voidtd a great Quantity os Blocd into the Capacity. Its Edges beingbrought near to oneanother, represented a Bowl, such as they play at Ntne-pins with. All the Membranes that form’d this Bag and those that en-compaff it, were Ciangreen’d.

1 believe that the Bigncfs which we obftrved in the Matrix proceeded onlyfrom a Rcflux of B ood, and the Spnrs which carryed ihe Nouiishment tothe Foetus when ir Llv.d.

jj, Dr , Ftrn , a. A Goldsmfh's Wifc, near 9 Months gone with her yth Ctild, wasn r.ctiv'd into the Hotd- Tieu. 20 Sept, 1696. She was then about 34 Ytars

of Age, of a Tender Constitution, had had 4 Children before, all which haddone very weH ; bat wirb thepreseiu Ihe had b en very III, and cndur’d agreat deal of Mifery. The Midwife whocxamin’d her Body, found acon-hderable Risingon the Right Sine near the Navel, which very much resem-bled a Child’s Head, her Belljr b.low that place bearing no proportion tothatabove, or to h : time of her Prtgnancj. O 1 the Lest Side there was no-thing fingular. The Midwife thought Ihe feit, through the Vagina, a

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