An Account of a Child Born Alive without a Brain, and the Observables in It on Dissection, by Dr. Charles Preston

An Account of a Child Born Alive without a Brain, and the Observables in It on Dissection,by Dr. Charles PrestonAuthor(s): Charles PrestonSource: Philosophical Transactions (1683-1775), Vol. 19 (1695 - 1697), pp. 457-467Published by: The Royal SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/102346 .

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( VS7 ) val of tie twot-gte.tter floods ; and the towwwater be ts,^teen the-arrival of ehe two leSer Floods And the Moon coqling to the ADquinoftial, and she alternate F.loods bemmag ;eqpal, . the Tide ccafes and the Water llagates: but when ffie has paXed to the other fide of tiw Equator, -thie FI0ods which in the former Order were the leaIl, now becoming the greateR, tha-t that bb -fore was thettme of highwater now-becomes theLow- waters a¢d-the-.ConverSe SoXthatthewholeappear- anCe of theSe fl;range Tidesy is with4ut.any forcing naturally deduced from thefe Prlnciples, md is a great Arw gument of the certaney at the whole 7Ptoyz

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r{. t Ascoxnt of $> C/oild Borx alive witht oxt a Brai* «nd tbe ObJertables in it oa Ditionj b9t Dr. C harles PreRont

S 1R,. IN obediena to your Commndss and 3,1dgiog.it- t will not be unacceptablet l have Colleded the beR Account- (in So far as I can remember) of; that extraordinary Birth, mentioned iz the fourth Journal of the Zrogres de la Medt, for the- Monthof ipfil, I69go of which I had the fortune to be-a Witnefs, and alfo the opportunity of examtning more particularly: Bx sa the firfi place, I thsk it not ami& to relate the Story as lt is given. sn by Movegr Le D¢, (wofo Chirurge onof tarx,famoousforhisPradtictinMidwifery-; and 1- hereafter Ihall proceed tO- give a farther Hiftory of the thing>. with all the. CircumItances about it, and- {how whereun they ate in a -MiAake.

( VS7 ) val of tie twot-gte.tter floods ; and the towwwater be ts,^teen the-arrival of ehe two leSer Floods And the Moon coqling to the ADquinoftial, and she alternate F.loods bemmag ;eqpal, . the Tide ccafes and the Water llagates: but when ffie has paXed to the other fide of tiw Equator, -thie FI0ods which in the former Order were the leaIl, now becoming the greateR, tha-t that bb -fore was thettme of highwater now-becomes theLow- waters a¢d-the-.ConverSe SoXthatthewholeappear- anCe of theSe fl;range Tidesy is with4ut.any forcing naturally deduced from thefe Prlnciples, md is a great Arw gument of the certaney at the whole 7Ptoyz

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r{. t Ascoxnt of $> C/oild Borx alive witht oxt a Brai* «nd tbe ObJertables in it oa Ditionj b9t Dr. C harles PreRont

S 1R,. IN obediena to your Commndss and 3,1dgiog.it- t will not be unacceptablet l have Colleded the beR Account- (in So far as I can remember) of; that extraordinary Birth, mentioned iz the fourth Journal of the Zrogres de la Medt, for the- Monthof ipfil, I69go of which I had the fortune to be-a Witnefs, and alfo the opportunity of examtning more particularly: Bx sa the firfi place, I thsk it not ami& to relate the Story as lt is given. sn by Movegr Le D¢, (wofo Chirurge onof tarx,famoousforhisPradtictinMidwifery-; and 1- hereafter Ihall proceed tO- give a farther Hiftory of the thing>. with all the. CircumItances about it, and- {how whereun they ate in a -MiAake.

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iIt)ril 3d. t69ff> -1 w8 calE to -a Wotan aged a- but zg Years, fis Monthsa0dSa half gerfein her thtrd C:hild, ihewasFeverilhX and tacd a little; on Examinab tion, I innd the OrtpAn gteri laterSkRyJ dilated aKut the larnefs of a Crown; fle cotnplained of Pains in thoX Parts;: ThisX joyned-with that ofr a Fafl from a Stair about eight days before, determined me to ailfl; Natre which^feellled ready to Relieve llerfelf of thst Burthm; I caured to be gtrn her tqome Alt- mentX to prepare her for a Work- ia which flle flood in need of brce, and one Hour afrer I delivered her hap- piiy of a Male Child, that lived half an Hour, and rv ceiered BaptiEm ; this Cbtld wa5 big and firong, and all the Parts of the Body well proportionedt as they ought tobe flaturally, except the Head, the hinder Par£ where o-f was-fl=, " if tt hadvbeen taken ofF with the Stroke of Some Weapon, eYen to the Qs Sphoides; there was neither Bmin CereSellgm, rJorSd/Ma oblotfgata; the Cavity which ought to contain theSe was very fi percial ; X found in- their place, a black and livid SubQ fiances covered with a- Membrane, which may be the Dgra and Pia Mater joyneds together; this SubRance had colourd the Os pctrofum and other Bones of a deep redColellr, I thruflc:a Stilet vr Probe into- the Cavity of the Vertebress - where out to be plved the Medta Spx#4X, but und no oppofiition ; for in efled5 it WkS fil}ed witlt a red (6>anking Liquor contained in the Mem esof theMFdxAla sCfltnaliW; the Vifageof this Child was a little deform, becallfi of the want of the CranF sm, which migh have -been communicated to- the Bones as yet tender,that fuflaind th¢ Skin ofthe Face

The great Mottonof the Eyes of thts Child, during the time it ! hied, gave me the Curiofity to fearch the Caure; I was aElflced by a skilful AnatomillX who was SurpriNed with me9 to find nothing in the place of Mutt

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( 4f9 ) s and- Nerves, but -Sktus and Filaments very f^nalt, andnot.capableof ContraAis misedina-rottenHu. mor, fo that this.great -Motion might r.ath.er proceed from the Motton of the Pa]bre.

There has paIDi under my Hands three..SubJe.ds like.unt.o this, all Males, and who livi {ome time.

Hauing given you the Story as it is relatsd by Mow jegr Le Dgc, I &all proceed - to give you-the fartherw Acgount.

Being Lodged with M§So*r Lk D fo£ the -Be0e&t of ilssoxh mens, this extraordinary Birth bappetds and finding it a very fsngulw and mre caSe, I propofed tbe sfending f-or Sothewr Da Dxier, OpArat to Mr l Zar to have it dilWeda whinh accord1ngly was perZ formed. Fir0, we examilled the External Parts, and found all well proportionedX except,< that it wanted the Cratigm, (Dereh and CerebeRm-; the ViW wZas a iWttle deform, it had Eyu arxd Ears like a Monkey, and all over the- Body was most haity then ordinary. ̂. We examined what there was in place of the Brain, bu-t could diScover nothing but a SubAance Iike conaled Blood, covered with a Membrane. We fearch'd alfio for the Optsick Nerves, it all we found in their place wasNfome- linzll Filaments. 3* We tlruS a Probe into tbe- Canal of the Vertebres, to &e whether there were any MP6Z#lla Spin2X, and linding fmall refiasnecb they noncluded ehere was none ; We went on to d-iScover the Ve«els of Communication, and fome other things, su- riOSlUS ip Anatomy; but l fhall paSs them overX --asnot re 3atidg to our prefent purpofe

This Examennot being At«faAory to me, and Several DifEcultiesoccurring, not only asto the Motion of the Pari6, but as to the Circulation of the Blood ;. whi-ch according to the Modern Opinioxls, depexlds upon the

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e (*s) $;nfiuxofffieAnimal *Wit-S MtO--ti Nerves *at were i parat@d in -the; Brain*^l carriedxthe Subje& to-hto#^egol9 XtrProf¢Sor of Anatomy;ien-theRoya-lGarden ar-Parx,to have it morecarefully-examne*who willtnglycomplicd wtth my dehre: And-fir he bearched for the Optick sNerves,but tteybeingruined by theabove-men-tion-edP¢r. fionsXhe could not -faywhetherthey-had bee¢there or nt. . -e tNCed tbe etghth and nintho pairs of Nerves and

Mntercofial. 3. Havirlg cut -theCanal af the- Verto bres, diScosrered the MedWa i#;l"-all alotsg- the {la- >vsty,-: and traced ua-ll--ti vertFbral Nerves proceedtng therefrom; as SalrO tile feiatitktNerve conftderable er ;QOUg^': . It is truei the Mcdila- Spigalg was not h=e of tbat--confiPtence ias--sn -adult;^rXns ;- bb-t one couldwith fofne paxns obServe all-the four Tunicks, and theftwo NSubRances a$ in the Brain, id wg, the Cortical or Glan dulous Subfiance, and the Fibmus or White,; but wgh this difierencet that the BroWn SubRance-is aterior in the Brtinj but4interior xn-the A#&lla SpinaZg, for it is as it-swer a third Brain contained in the Canal of the Vertebres rO framed- for itS deFence; for there are h ninges as ia the;>Brain, Sin}s and Cavities which may paSs -for Ventricles :- In a word, one can &y aill- of it thatrthey -con of -tbe Braini and more, for it appears more inflble;aod neceffiary for the- Life, for you can take the Braia or .Cerebellum-Som an Animal, -and yet the Animal lhall li-ve-fometime thereaker, - but a Wound or Compreffil-on of the MeluXZa Spi#AIg wEill caute:fudden 3Death. And the Generatton, orkFiltration, and Di-flri- butionwof Animal Spirits, is performed the fame- way as in the Brain: And Mox*tur Dx htny has obServed that all the Subgeds of this Qature, that he ha$ bad occafion M diSedit, nearer one of theal was fiound wanting We Scita SWinaliu; So tbat ̂rom what-is aboYe -obferV-

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Wanting ia tlais8 ^;fi4 nec¢ffte fiMr the1* of Anumals,: aqd svit>gat ^which ie; ts im ceive hour-they cgnfiubEIt >Q is ¢?affrm: by feveraX Anotomical Expersmer; andtr}-partiXJgtt byoneof MX*r P* hr ,ierthe Y-eat x673.. wFhen he took tha Bra jn and CeXbel.lfum firm a Pigson, and in place thereofs 514ed the Sragw witb Flax, notwithfltanding which irlived fowne tim¢, fearched forAlment; dsd the ordingry Fun$onsx of-4Llfesand btdCthe* je of SenSe; and PMonj¢wr C;hirw¢* ProfeXorfl of Anatomy at Soxtptlxer, by fczweri E7¢p¢>ment$. he hxs made upon Dogs, has clearly provi an A{XmalXmay liveXome timewantin,g theBrau}} asxdsvenlawtstestheCtekl;tm;; as*:youl fie by the fiolIPstng.Ex.perinentsw - The 6rfic was upon a D f.rotn whom} be had tuken the ainX yet he Iivt ed fiome*XfnsK but wnsti<-6crAlX wa tWen-<t he; died i@ediatmly ,! but- be bas obits¢is* that by blowing into the Luns, the Anirntl hass Iived an Hour altho' was}tXng theCfe;e. -> fed Experiment was upon a Dogs fiom wOm hevtook halSof tbe-Ckro ;¢1i but Xhe died h immiiately. -Ti third- upon a DogX from whoq he took half of the;-Brain, aftsr he coatinued -to bave th Motion of all the Parts,. and could walk about.; sthxn he took a1} th>-Brain fit the fame Dog hx had yet SenSe and RtIpirations A fourth Experiment gpon a l:)ogi by - intriwng a pair of- S¢£* fars-"betwist;the f1rAMertebreand--the Os->O¢cap-ttiz, t0 feparate the Md.llJ Obhxgata -from th¢ lUed.*Zla Spgo 1bt the Animal.- had digdsiomediately, buN by blowiog into the .Lllngs; the: MoiWaof the*H"t£-continued, and the Animal could mov-6s B-ody. a fifth lisFrb ment upon a Dogt from whom he took th -Ceeb¢ati, but he lived.Tw¢aty four.Hours,^ and his Heart be?t -^ well.

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t 46^ ) ., Allthefe ExperlSnts let you See An Anlmalmay livw fome timeX tho' imperfebtly wanting the -Brain, and even the cerebellgm, but there is no Expgriment where ever tbey -lived wanting all; therefore I - humbly eanceive the Madgl>4 Spinal uZas not here -wanting,for- it has fupw plied the-defedLof theBrain and CerebetionSand thes4nimal Spirits have been feparated and diRributed for continu*- ing the Circulation of- the Blood : for it is to be confi dered, that altho' thelntercoRal Nerve and eighth pait have their Origine in the iMelta 0g4ta ,- yet after theirentry into the Cavity of theBrea*, theyare unitw ed with Branches from almoR ali the vertebral Nerves, and with them makeupSeveralPlexus's, and fromthoSe Plesus'-s, feveral-Branches are e-mitted that go-to the Heart aild other- Parts, fuicient-for contixuing t4e ci

culationof the Blood, which hasoccalioned fome to run into a mi§akes thinking the Circulation is to beexplasnZ ed fome other way, then by the lnflux of the Aniixal Sparits-intothe Nerves, whichthey endeavourto prove- by an Experiment on a Dog, of tying the [ntercoftal and eighth pair of Nerves, before they enter the Cavi- ty- of the -Brea*J and yet the Dogffiall live two or three Days thereafter. This Experiment they take for a fuf- ficient Demonfiration. but except they can tte all-the szertebral Nerves, or at lea(t tie ti Neryes at theiren trance into the Heart, their Experiment is not fO con- vincing ;--but if in this cafe the Animal thall- be found ro liveany cohlidgrable time thereafter. then the Gircu ation muIt be explained fome other way: But the Sympv toms that ordinarily happen, ieven otpon tying the InS tercoRal and eighth pairs is- an evidexxt Pmof of the contrary, fior the Animal is tgken- immediately with cOntillriONS

There are a Million of didiculties arifing from this little Subje@, obvious to every- one that reads the Sto

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( 463 ) ry; whtch it will be needleSs to name, and fat leE will I pretend to explain them: I Ihall only make a Q_te, Whethtr all the Parts of this Child were entire in thet 0vwm > Or, if the Brain and Cerebellgm have been caru ried of by eSe firong forceof Imsgtnationw or by Some Accident or Corruption whatever of thefe obrain; X -am tpt to believe all the Parts were once entirely framed for the tracing the eighth and ninth pair of Nerves and Intercofial, who take all their Origtnefrom the MedglZ la obloffgata feems to be a Proof of itX and how fir the force of Imaginatiotq goes, and what Influence it has upon Children, we haare feveral Jultances: and 1 ihall have occafion to ctte one or two Cafes below. The Learned Mwlpif i and others have compared the Seed of a Plant, with that of an Animal: And Laurexti3S5 Belti, in his lateTreatifie, Ad JrchibalAm PttcarZ xigm} deMotg cordis, &c. fipeaXing of Gcneratsons 11as thefe+UVordss Et fuxm viMeasst, at videretJ<bi videatar JentinaPlaararn, nibilaligd eJJoe qaam illa igasplAataw;

2xe es iisfemf7&ibuDnafcifi Germixare, Provexirc, prodgce, geterari dicxntgrs ita! tWt nil¢ in plaxta quz prodgctxrs qxod prig nonfavit ia femine f^¢od pradxcit @ plaaia dis senda fit fioltn femcn majg @ in majore magnitadinefin GXtenJwm, @ omnes partes-qrae contiteatars in plaxta contitentgr ia¢ Acmxne ES in 8tri0ffe fXt ejxJ2em ordxis eywfitem- perpef ioas, ej#¢m operandi nzadi hina cawRitxit etiam in Jenqtxiba Atinfalsm reg, eolem ?wodo concipi ewdam e9} ^Uemex eorgndem dik ndgm atX¢ exiJ?iman dxms nihil alixd fX4M3 parvgm corpuz SnimatJis coaCans^, es ozxihs &S iifidem parti;, eodent ntodo iXfpafitis pe7nv feAxs ate ope7ran4tib", AcX

fIence I inlCers tilat all tile Parts of tll£s ht wyere once entire and perfe&, whatever way they came to be wsanting afterward it being evident, that a F tg has nor the afe of the Senfies. LikewilE it is

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( 444 ) anch contravuted, -ssrhetlier a Ftat does refp£re while £rt gtero mattrSow t-ln.ere joeing orlly a co-ntinued CirculaZ £ion fron the Mother to the Cllild, and from the Child to the lM-otlwcr, bs! meaes of tlle Plart7¢ta and Cordvn, fo-tllat rhe Ibungso-f the Motter lerve for botb, a**8 tuat the Blcxod CircllIa-teS a rnucla fahotr£er way b37 the Ganal of Communication and ForamenOvale without paSlng the Lungs, then it does afxr the Birt-h, the Child having then the proper uSe of its own Lungs, the former Pa(; fage bWing Co Mcchinically ftopt by a galtule) that the Blood quite alters its former Channel or Gaurfe, as I have fi:en it tQ my great Pleafure and Satisidion, de mor{irate on [everal Ftg's difleded on that account in the private LeEtures of MoJafegr Dg Versfy. And tuat the thing may appear more clear, I fhall nacatxon two Opinions that obtain moIl as to the Nourifhment of a Fzft44.

The tirR is That there area number of Glandsin the Internal Tunick of the Matrix, which ali thfi time of Child bearing tSlter and feparate from the Blood. a white Liquor, like unto Chile, that is received by the Glands of the Placenta (which is norhing but a heapof Glands and VefEels) that are joyned with thofe of the Marrix; hence in Briltes they can feparate the Placenta from the trix without theeSutioxl of Blood. but only of that white Liquor, the umbilicaf Veins and Arteries being diRrzabuted itO aI] ei Glands of the Placenta; fo that the capillary Vetns receive that Liquor with the Bloodw and carry it to the Mena Porta of the ChildX from thence to the Heart, to be diRributed through the whole Body; and what is fiuperfluous is carried back tQ the Placenta by the umbilical Arteries, and fo- continues to circulate from the Placenta to the Child, @ vice verfa,

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( 46s ) 1h1 tefEeIs xre di-lWperfed throu the:PlaceSa, nd tht the Capillary Veins of the Placenta are analntomofed witb the willary Arteries of the Matrix, from whom they receisre the Blood that is carried to the ChiEd for itS Nourifhment, and the remainder is carried back by the Umbilical Arteries -which are- anaomoSed with th¢ Veins d the Matrix ; SO ehat th: Circulation is made from the Mother to the Cbild, and from -the Ghild tO the Mother, by means of the Placenta gnd UmbiJical Veilsv

Which of theNe Opinions are the mo{t probable, de- pends upon the Anatomy ofthe Parts; but any ofthem will fierve my taxrn, Kz. tQ prove ebere is a continued Circulat-;on from the Mother eo the Child, and from the Cbild to the Mother: And eo confirm it} I 11la11 produce Two or Three Experiments which I had occaw fion to fee perfornzed. The firll was on a F:rtusJ by Monfileur dg Vernt, where by blowing into the UmE lixl Vein-and tying the Arteries; a little after the Umbilical Arteries were diRended. The fecornl Expe riment performed alfo by Mr. dg hry, W8S upon the DiffieEtion of the Uterus of a Woman newl) brought to Bed, by blowing into- the Hypoga(trick Artery, the wholeV-eSelswere-6lled, and the Matrix blown up; and for a farther Tryal he made an inEpeAiots, by which the Liquor came forth at the Orifices of the little &lands, which are difiperfed through the MatrixW This Experimene carlnot be performed but onJy in fuch cafes. The third Experiment I fee performed by Monfieur BidZoo, ProfieXor of Anatomy at Leydea- on a Fxtus, whereby an lnJe*ion of Wax into the Umbili cal Yeio, the -whole Vetlels -were tilled both Veins and Arteries, at which he was a Jittle 6urprized, bEing contrary tO his DoEtrine. I could infiance feverat other ExperimentsX but this ts fuSene -to prove there is

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a contlnued Gralatiols froul thg Mother to the Child, and from the Cbild to the Mother; fio that a htus Seems not to refpire but by the Mother As nfieur Mv in the Memoires de # 1¢ Srensc has xn- tirmed by feveral Experiments - The tSrR was upon Two Tortoilis, by tying theit Jaws llrongly together, and fealing their NoSe and Throat witl< Spaniffi -Wax, to try xhow Jong they could live without breathing: The frR ived One and thirty dways, the other Thirtywtwo.

Another Experiment was by l-aying open the Stcr num of a Dog, who died a little after a but having lift- ed that of a Tortoife, it lived yet Seven days.

titi' their Reafonsfeem tQ be Frong, tha£ a ToF to;fe can live fO long w-i£hout breathing, baving theCa nal of Com-munication and F%tamen ovale al-ways open} yet Monfieur Mery pretends they are not concluding, but by uther reaSons que diffirent; and that is by the continued circulatiotl, as we have faid above. as he has Xvera] times obServed in Scvo¢bamexs: That the Cor. don by which the Fztus ls tied to the P]acenta, was lso preflEdy thar the Blood could "9e pa& from the Mother to the Fxtus; and tllat the head of the Fztus ts enga ged in the pEages the Fztus is choaked sn a very little tame ; butt if the head is come forth, the Fxtus dies not althK she Cordon be Rronbly compreed by the-relt of the Body.

To conclude thas lliScour(eX I all mention a few Obtervalvions of the like Qfes.

The firPK is by Mon&eatr Mwriveatw in the 4th Edit. of Whxs BookX Des Maladxes dWs Eemmes, p, T r . where he gives an accollnt of one estraerdinary Birth that happened in the Year s6s, it 11ad ncither Cragwm Ccrebrxm nor DreSellum, but in place of theReX a 1ump itfleShy fibRance very redw about the thicknefs and largneX of a Placenta cov-ered with a fingle Membrane

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( 467 ) very firong, all- 0ther Parts were found- and well pro portioned.

The Second happened in the Year t671* when he was called joyntly witb Monfieur Lamy to the HouSe of a Midwife- in the FSxboowrg St Gcrmai0f, whers there was a Girl brought to bed ot a Ghild like unto the for mer. they beingvealled to give their repor-t, what was the cauSe of the Childs death} and having exa mined all CircumRances} and among& others, that dE a fiuddenfrightaSer nle was a Month Conceived, by feeing her Lover fall from a Window Two Storaes hxghs and by which the imagined his head- was all bruiSed They made their reportthat the FrigIlt was the caalfie.

- Pag II6 He mentions another of the fame nature that llappened in the Year x67z, whsh he was brought to fee by Monfilellr Apry ill the;CloiRer of No^trc ̂oic

Monf1eur Pcg alto - in his - Book DF la p- ra e Dcs Jsc"chemexs, p. 67 & 68* rtlates one of the fame naZ turc that happened in the Year x68Xs The Chilt-Iived abut a quarter of an Hour-.

1v. ExtraS of 4 Letter fitog Jean Marie LanZ cGl} - Prof. Anat Rom. Io Mr Bourdelots givtag dn Absoiont of Mt. Malpighi, tbe Cirsumflances of bit deatbX and- whFt was foznd resarpble at the otning of his Bod Being Art. . ofthc 3d. Journal of Brunets Prtrew de la Medecint

THE Incomparable Malpxgbx, who naturally ap a eplsi htmSelf only to rous Studies, w-hich- he

feldom interrupted, and that againA his will, to take Some

( 467 ) very firong, all- 0ther Parts were found- and well pro portioned.

The Second happened in the Year t671* when he was called joyntly witb Monfieur Lamy to the HouSe of a Midwife- in the FSxboowrg St Gcrmai0f, whers there was a Girl brought to bed ot a Ghild like unto the for mer. they beingvealled to give their repor-t, what was the cauSe of the Childs death} and having exa mined all CircumRances} and among& others, that dE a fiuddenfrightaSer nle was a Month Conceived, by feeing her Lover fall from a Window Two Storaes hxghs and by which the imagined his head- was all bruiSed They made their reportthat the FrigIlt was the caalfie.

- Pag II6 He mentions another of the fame nature that llappened in the Year x67z, whsh he was brought to fee by Monfilellr Apry ill the;CloiRer of No^trc ̂oic

Monf1eur Pcg alto - in his - Book DF la p- ra e Dcs Jsc"chemexs, p. 67 & 68* rtlates one of the fame naZ turc that happened in the Year x68Xs The Chilt-Iived abut a quarter of an Hour-.

1v. ExtraS of 4 Letter fitog Jean Marie LanZ cGl} - Prof. Anat Rom. Io Mr Bourdelots givtag dn Absoiont of Mt. Malpighi, tbe Cirsumflances of bit deatbX and- whFt was foznd resarpble at the otning of his Bod Being Art. . ofthc 3d. Journal of Brunets Prtrew de la Medecint

THE Incomparable Malpxgbx, who naturally ap a eplsi htmSelf only to rous Studies, w-hich- he

feldom interrupted, and that againA his will, to take Some



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An Account of a Child Born Alive without a Brain, and the Observables in It on Dissection, by Dr. Charles Preston