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delivered her, I again examined her, and found her not in
the least inflamed or lacerated.
“ Upon examining her breasts, I found milk in one of
them, but only a little yellowish serum in the other.
ee Her pulse was regular, but somewhat low ; her tongue
florid. She informed us, that in the intervals of her labour-
pains, she was tolerably easy, and had no inclination for any
sort of food but beef.
“About two hours after we had left her, they came again
to call Mr. Howard, she being at that time in violent labour-
pains; but he and myself were gone to see the mayor,'who
was then ill. The nurse that attended her had delivered her,
before our return, of the lower part of a male rabbit, which
we found to tally with the trunk, which I had before ex-
tracted. This was also stript of its skin, and completely
perfect in all its parts.
“ In the rectum of this animal, which remained affixed to
the body, we found five or six pellets, much of the same
colour and consistence as the common dung of a rabbit,
little bodies, like dried fragments, being matted together with
a mucous matter. The like was observed in some other
parts of those rabbits, which had come away before. In
the other bowels^there was a dirty coloured mucus, of the
nature of that which is constantly found in the bowels of
all foetus animals, and which in those that void their excre-
ments in pellets, is commonly hard and dry ; but the matter
in the guts of the first animal was of an entire different kind,
colour, and substance, from any of the rest, this being like,
little filaments of an animal substance. In the middle of
the gut ilium of this creature, I found a very slender, brittle,
white body, of the length of half an inch, which in shape
was like a very small fish-bone.
“Between six and seven the same evening, we again visited
her; we had not been there long, before she fell into violent
labour-pains, insomuch that four or five persons could hardly
confine her to an arm-chair. As soon as the violence- of
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delivered her, I again examined her, and found her not in
the least inflamed or lacerated.
“ Upon examining her breasts, I found milk in one of
them, but only a little yellowish serum in the other.
ee Her pulse was regular, but somewhat low ; her tongue
florid. She informed us, that in the intervals of her labour-
pains, she was tolerably easy, and had no inclination for any
sort of food but beef.
“About two hours after we had left her, they came again
to call Mr. Howard, she being at that time in violent labour-
pains; but he and myself were gone to see the mayor,'who
was then ill. The nurse that attended her had delivered her,
before our return, of the lower part of a male rabbit, which
we found to tally with the trunk, which I had before ex-
tracted. This was also stript of its skin, and completely
perfect in all its parts.
“ In the rectum of this animal, which remained affixed to
the body, we found five or six pellets, much of the same
colour and consistence as the common dung of a rabbit,
little bodies, like dried fragments, being matted together with
a mucous matter. The like was observed in some other
parts of those rabbits, which had come away before. In
the other bowels^there was a dirty coloured mucus, of the
nature of that which is constantly found in the bowels of
all foetus animals, and which in those that void their excre-
ments in pellets, is commonly hard and dry ; but the matter
in the guts of the first animal was of an entire different kind,
colour, and substance, from any of the rest, this being like,
little filaments of an animal substance. In the middle of
the gut ilium of this creature, I found a very slender, brittle,
white body, of the length of half an inch, which in shape
was like a very small fish-bone.
“Between six and seven the same evening, we again visited
her; we had not been there long, before she fell into violent
labour-pains, insomuch that four or five persons could hardly
confine her to an arm-chair. As soon as the violence- of
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