Case of an extra-uterine foetus. Communicated in a letter to Dr. Simmons / [Michael Underwood].

  • Michael Underwood
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[1787]
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Credit: Case of an extra-uterine foetus. Communicated in a letter to Dr. Simmons / [Michael Underwood]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cover her ftrength in a great meafure, though Ihe never was fo eafy as before the accident. Towards the latter end of the year 1774 Ibe was become pretty eafy, and, by computation, it was found fhe had pafled, in the laft fifteen years, about three hundred fmall pieces of bone, and half as many larger, which laft were very thin. At the beginning of 1775 fire brought on a painful diforder of her bowels by an advertifed purging pill, and after this Ihe pafied feveral pieces of bone, and particularly one, which feemed to be an exfoliation of the ileum, near two inches long. In the courfe of the next year, 1776, many fmall bones were voided ; but after this fne re¬ mained upwards of a year without palling any* and again recovered her health and ftrength in great degree. * After this fhe no longer pafted any large pieces of bone, but fometimes IhiaMer ones, without any other trouble, however, than that of fome uneafinefs when Ihe allowed herfeif t© - become coftive. In 1778, when ftie had arrived at the age of feventy years, (he received a confiderable accefiion of fortune, which (owing probably io a frame enervated by forty years fbftering) &