A narrative of the most extraordinary delivery of Mary Toft ... / With a preface by a man-midwife.

  • Nathaniel St André
Date:
1774
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Credit: A narrative of the most extraordinary delivery of Mary Toft ... / With a preface by a man-midwife. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( ,) them the ftrongefi: Marks of Fcetusty 6ven by fuch Parts as cannot* exift in an Adult, and without which a Fcetiis cannot poffibly be fuppofed to live. This, I think, proves in the ftrongefl Terms poffible, that thefe Animals were of a particular Kind, and not bred - in a natural May ; nor will there be any Doubt remaining (even with the leaft knowing in' thefe Watters) when thofe Parts* which are fubfervlent to the Circulation of the Blood, and Nourilhment between an-adult Creature, and \\.% Foetus are brought away, which I*am fully ■fatisfied muft fliortly happen, or, if retained, be the Gaufe of this Woman’s Death. . . All thefe Fads were verified before his Ma- jefty, on Saturday Nqv. the 26th, by the ana- tomical Demonftration of- the firft, the third, fifth, and ninth of thefe Animals, which were compared with the Parts of-two natural Rab¬ bets, the one of the Age of four Months, and the other of five Days, Dr. Steigerihal znd Dr. being’prefent. I fliall with all convenient Speed publilh the Anatomy of thefe prasternatural Rabbets, with • their Figures taken from the Life,' and com¬ pared with'^the Parts of Rabbets of the fame Growth,-that the Differences beforementioned •may be fully underlfocd. In the mean w^hile, I {hall relate w^hat ap- • peared in the Diffedion of two Rabbets, which 1 performed in the Prefence of Mr. Molyneux^ the very Day that w^e returned from Guilford;
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