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 the Hope Edwardes Library, the total amount realised 
 being £11,033. Most of the lots, as has already been 
 shown, could be purchased only by bibliophiles whose 
 pocket equals their penchant. A Paris edition dated 
 1488 of M Des Histoires,” by La Mer, from the Jesuits’ 
 College, fetched £305; and J. Nichols’s ** History of the 
 County of Leicester,” £165. Nine volumes of that 
 useful book to which allusion was made at the begin¬ 
 ning of this notice. Smith’s w Catalogue Raisonnd of 
 Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters,” realised £49. 
 Ye ars ago Mary Tofts, the notorious * Rabbit 
 Woman ” of Godaiming, was much discussed by the 
 
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 was sold m 
 
 collection of rure tracts on her case" 
 
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 guinea s. Since^bh ewthere has bee n time for excites 
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 £6 5s was bid. 
 
 •clay only . 
 
 k lourtn edition of"”The Complete Angler n ''aucT 
 
 two volumes of “The Experienced Angler” brought 
 together £31. The first edition of Spenser’s “ Colin 
 Clout’s Come Home Again,” dated 1595, fetched £35, 
 and that curious work on the Stuarts, “The True 
 Effigies of our Most Illustrious Sovereigne Lord King 
 Charles, Queen Mary, with the Rost of the Royal 
 Progenie,” published in 1641, £157. The copy of' 
 Sidney’s “The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia,” 
 which belonged to “ Sidney’s sister, Pembroke’s 
 mother,” bound in old red morocco powdered with 
 small hearts and flames, reached £255, and that rare 
 Romance of Chivalry, “Tristan,” printed anew in 
 Paris, 1533, and ornately bound by Ohambolle-Durii 
 in the style of Nicholas Eve, £170. jj 
 
 •I 
 


 TOFT [or TOFTS] (Mary) 1701 ^ 63 . 
 
 4115. [A volume containing tracts and tran¬ 
 scripts of tracts, and letters, portraits, &c., 
 relating to Mary Toft, the 4 Rabbit-Breeder \] 
 8°. Lond., 1726-53. 
 
 With the Roxburghe crest on the covers ; 
 bk.-plates of Sir Henry Hope Edwardes and A. M. 
 Broadley. Inserted : autogr. note to Steevens 
 from Chas. Combe (who added “ two trifling 
 things ” to the collection) ; and cuttings from 
 sale catalogues &c. 
 
 A MS. note on the flyleaf reads : " This singu¬ 
 larly rare collection was made by Geo. Steevens, 
 at whose sale it was purchased [22 May, 1800, lot 
 1551, for ^14. 10. o] by the late Duke of Rox¬ 
 burghe, who has added a curious original letter 
 [xxiii] from the Accoucheur, John Howard . . . 
 detailing the whole circumstances of this notorious 
 case. This volume produced at the Duke of 
 Roxburghe’s sale (lot 2001) the sum of £36. 15. o. 
 Re-sold, White Knights [library of the 5th Duke 
 of Marlborough, 1819] lot 4149 £12. 12. o ; 
 
 Mr. Jolley’s, May 1853 (lot 2233) ^10. 5. o ” ; and, 
 in a later hand : “ The Hope-Edwardes sale . . . 
 lot 537, May 23, 1901, purchased [for £6. 5. o] by 
 Messrs. Maggs for A. M. Broadley.” 
 
 I had a number of the pamphlets, but as this 
 set seemed to be of special interest, I sent a bid 
 and got the vol. for £10. 10. o (Broadley sale, 
 Hodgson’s, 12 June, 1917, lot 310). Broadley, 
 in no. 7077, p. 2, speaks of this as a good example 
 of pre-Granger grangerizing. The D. N. B. has 
 a full account of the case and the literatur e. It 
 
 is of interest only as one of the most celebrated 
 instances of hysterical deception. [W. O.] 
 
 Contents as arranged in the volume : 
 
 i. Two portraits of Mary Toft, one in Indian 
 ink, ascribed in MS. to Sam. Ireland. 
 
 ii. A Short Narrative of an Extraordinary 
 Delivery of Rabbets, perform’d by Mr. John 
 Howard Surgeon at Guilford. Published by Mr. 
 St. Andr£ Surgeon and Anatomist to his Majesty. 
 Lond., 1727. 
 
 iii. The Anatomist dissected : or The Man- 
 Midwife finely brought to bed. Being an Examina¬ 
 tion of the Conduct of Mr. St. Andre. Touching 
 the late pretended Rabbit-bearer ; as it appears 
 from his own Narrative. By Lemuel Gulliver, 
 Surgeon and Anatomist to the Kings of Lilliput 
 and Blefuscu . . . The 2nd ed. . . . Westminster, 
 1727. 
 
 Apparently not by Swift. Prefixed is a repro¬ 
 duction of a portrait of St. Andre. 
 
 iv. Remarks on A short Narrative of an Extra¬ 
 ordinary Delivery of Rabbets ... as publish’d by 
 Mr. St. Andre . . . With a proper Regard to his 
 intended Recantation. By Thomas Brathwaite, 
 Surgeon. Lond., 1726. 
 
V. An exact Diary of what was observ’d during 
 a Close Attendance upon Mary Toft, the pretended 
 Rabbet-Breeder . . Together with An Account of 
 
 her Confession of the Fraud. By Sir Richard 
 Manningham . . . The 2nd ed. Lond., 1726. 
 
 \n An Advertisement cccaeion’d by some 
 Passages in Sir R. Manningham’s Diary lately 
 published. By J. Douglas, M.D. Lond., 1727. 
 
 vii. Some Observations concerning the Woman 
 of Godlyman in Surrey . . . Tending to prove her 
 extraordinary Deliveries to be a Cheat and Im¬ 
 posture. By Cyriacus Ahlers, Surgeon to His 
 Majesty. Lond., 1726. 
 
 viii. Much ado about Nothing: or, a Plain 
 Refutation of all that has been written or said 
 concerning the Rabbit-Woman of Godaiming. 
 Being a full and impartial Confession from her own 
 mouth . . . Lond., 1727. 
 
 ix. The several Depositions of Edward Costen, 
 Richard Stedman . . . and Mary Costen ; relating 
 to the Affair of Mary Toft. . . Lond., 1727. 
 
 At the end is printed an ‘ Advertisement ’ of 
 St. Andr6’s, dated 8 Dec., 1726, acknowledging 
 that he had been deceived. Prefixed is a copy, 
 from MS. Sloane 3312, of a letter from Thomas, 
 2nd Baron Onslow, 4 Dec., 1726, concerning 
 these Depositions which had been taken by him 
 that day. 
 
 x. An Account of the Rabbets, &c. n. pi. or d 
 With woodcut heading ; 2 leaves ; an ad¬ 
 vertisement of the ‘Anodyne Necklace’ for 
 teething children. 
 
 xi. a Propos. Mr. St. Andre’s Case and De¬ 
 positions, as published in the London Gazette of 
 February 23, 1724 . . . Lond., n.d. 
 
 This has reference, not to Mary Toft, but to 
 a previous affair of St. Andre’s, in which he 
 ^all eged th at an attempt had been made, in 
 
 Feb. 1724, to poison him (see D. N. B., voh 50 
 p. 120). ’ 
 
 xn The Discovery: or The Squire turn’d 
 Ferret. An Excellent New Ballad . . . The 2nd ed 
 Westminster, 1727. [A transcript.] 
 
 £ Shorter and Truer Advertisement bv 
 way of Supplement to what was published the 7^ 
 instant. Or D*. D . . g . . 1 . . s in an Extasy, at 
 Lacey s Bagnio December the 4th. I726< Lond. 
 1727. [Ballad, signed ‘ Flamingo ’. A transcript.] 
 
 xiv A Letter from a Male Physician in the 
 Country, to the Author of the Female Physician 
 in London . . To which is added, A Short Disserta- 
 lon upon Generation, whereby every Child- 
 bearing Woman may be satisfied, that ’tis as 
 impossible for Women to generate and bring forth 
 
 £ ♦ 1 ™ aS tls lm P° ssi ble for Rabbets to bring 
 forth Women . . . Lond., 1726 5 
 
 Witha chapter from' The Female Physician ’ 
 
' 1724, by John Maubray, whose credulity is here 
 
 compared with St. Andre’s ; cf. tract xvii. 
 
 xv. St. A—D—£’s Miscarriage, or A Full and 
 True Account of the Rabbit Woman. The 2nd ed. 
 Lond., 1727. [A ballad. Transcript.] 
 
 xvi. A Song on the Rabbit Breeder by **** 
 ****** Lond., 1727. [A transcript.] 
 
 xvii. The Sooterkin dissected. In a letter to 
 John Maubray, M.D. alias Dr. Giovanni. Wherein 
 is clearly prov’d, I. That there never was such an 
 Animal. . . [&c.]. By a Lover of Truth and 
 Learning. Lond., 1726. 
 
 Signed Philalethes. According to a Dutch 
 superstition, the Sooterkin, or Suyger (sucker), 
 was a parasitic, rat-like animal that developed 
 with the child in utero. Maubray in his book 
 (cf. tract xiv) declared that he had seen one 
 born. 
 
 xviii. The Opinion of y e Rev d M r William 
 Whiston concerning the Affair of Mary Toft, 
 asserting it to be the Completion of a Prophecy of 
 Esdras. Extracted from the Memoirs of his own 
 Life and Writings. Written by Himself. The 
 2nd ed. corrected . . . Lond., 1753. 
 
 A transcript; with a note in a different hand, 
 " This Pamphlet is in the handwriting of George 
 Steevens Esq. ”. It is preceded by an engr. 
 portrait of Whiston, and a page of MS. notes 
 referring to (a) tract x, above ; ( b ) Hogarth’s 
 and other prints of the affair ; and (c) a notice 
 in the Gazetteer, 21 Jan., 1763, of the death of 
 Mary Tofts. 
 
 xix. The Rabbit-Man-Midwife. [Verses tran¬ 
 scribed from ‘ A new miscellany ’, Lond., 1730.] 
 
 xx. The Doctors in Labour, or a New Whim 
 Wham from Guildford . . . n. pi. or d. 
 
 Twelve compartments, cut from a large 
 engraving, each with verses beneath and each 
 mounted separately. Another copy, a single 
 sheet print as issued, and with title, is inserted 
 folded at the end of the volume. 
 
 xxi. De Muliere Cuniculipara. Autore D°. 
 Orrery Burdet, Arm 0 . [Verses transcribed “ from 
 a M.S. of Ballard ”, i. e. Geo. Ballard, the anti¬ 
 quary.] 
 
 xxii. A note, undated, fro m St. Andr6 to Sir 
 Hans Sloane, stating that he has brought the 
 woman to London. [Transcribed from MS. 
 Sloane 3316.] 
 
 xxiii. Autograph letter from John Howard, the 
 apothecary who attended Mary Toft, addressed to 
 ‘ My Lord Duke ’ and dated ‘ Guldeford Nov. 9th 
 1726 ’ ; two leaves, folio, describing the case. 
 “ The twelfth Rabbit I believe I shall take from 
 her about six oclock, I have Eleven of them in 
 Spirits ...” A different letter, written the same 
 day, is printed in the * Narrative ’ (tract ii), p. 5. 
 
 xxiv. Mr. Petit a French Surge on sen t from 
 
 - 
 
^ an exact Accoun 
 
 • >• & •^a^srvj Rabbet 
 
 »r«. , 
 
 copy, unmounted. ' ollowe d by anothe: 
 

 637 Tufts (Mary). A Complete Collection of all the Tracts, 
 both printed and manuscript, relating to Mary Tofts, the 
 celebrated Rabbit Woman of Godaiming, collected by G. 
 Steevens, with her Portrait in Indian ink, by S. Ireland, and. 
 a curious Autograph Letter from Mr. Howard the Accoucheur, 
 to the Duke of Roxburghe, then Secretary of State, detailing 
 the whole circumstances of the Case, old russia , with gold 
 - borders, from the Library of the Duke of JRoxburghe 
 
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 . 
 
 
Mary tofts, 
 
 ' The Intended Rabbit Breeder.) 
 
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 \ 
 
A Short 
 
 NARRATIVE 
 
 Of an Extraordinary 
 
 Delivery of Rabbets, 
 
 Perform’d by 
 
 Mr. JOHN HOWARD 
 
 Surgeon at 
 
 
 
 no 
 
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 Publilhed by Mr. St. Amiri Surgeon and Ana- 
 tomift to his Majefty. 
 
 LONDON, 
 
 Printed for John Clarke, at the Bible un¬ 
 der the Royal-Exchange. u dcc xxvii. 
 
 G.STFEYEJfS 
 
r V-t*’ . \ 
 
 T HE Account of the Delivery of 
 the eighteenth Rabbet, fhall be 
 Published by way of Appendix to this 
 Account. 
 
 i 
 
A Short Narrative of an Ex¬ 
 traordinary Delivery , &c. 
 
 Hatever may be the Fate of 
 this Account, I think my 
 felf indifpenfably obliged 
 to relate the Fa< 5 ts that I faw, 
 and tranfa&ed my felf, as alfo the 
 Reafons which firft induced me to en¬ 
 quire into the Truth of fuch an Ex¬ 
 traordinary Event 3 but I here declare 
 that I take on me no other Part of 
 this Narration, than that in which I was 
 actually concerned. 
 
 As Mr. Howard himfelf intends 
 fhortly to publifh the whole Account, 
 and prove every Circumftance of 
 A 2. it, 
 
( 4 ) 
 
 it, by fuch Evidences as will put 
 this Matter out of all pofiibility of 
 Doubt, I muft refer to him for feverai 
 Particulars here omitted. 
 
 And as it will be impoflible to judge 
 impartially of this Fa<5t, till the Evi¬ 
 dences abovemention’d are produced, 
 it cannot be doubted but all fuch Per- 
 fons as are not governed by Prejudice, 
 or fome worfe Motive, will fufpend 
 their Judgment till thefe Fa6ts come to 
 their Knowledge by a more certain 
 way, than by flying Reports and Con¬ 
 jectures. 
 
 The firfl Intelligence I received of ’ 
 this Matter, was on the jth Inflant, 
 when I faw a very particular * Account 
 of a Woman living at Godltman lately 
 delivered of five Rabbets by Mr. John 
 Howard , Surgeon at Guilford in Suv- 
 
 * This Account was taken'the 4th Inflant at 
 Guilford by Mr, Davenqnt. 
 
 rey, 
 
C 5 ) 
 
 rey , a Man of known Probity, Cha¬ 
 racter, and Capacity in his Profefiion, 
 who has practis’d Midwifery for above 
 thefe thirty Years. 
 
 This Account was again confirmed 
 by two b Letters from the faid Mr. 
 Howard ’ the firfl: dated Nov. the 
 <Sth, 4 a Clock in the Afternoon 5 the 
 Subftance of which is-, That from the 
 4th Inftant to the 6th he had deli¬ 
 ver’d the Woman of three more Rab¬ 
 bets j that the laft of them had leap’d 
 in her Belly, for the fpace of eighteen 
 Hours, before it dy d, and that the 
 Moment it was taken away, another 
 was perceiv’d to ftruggle for Birth. 
 
 The fecond is dated Nov. the ninth, 
 and is here tranfcribed^r^//^ viz. 
 
 Sir, 
 
 S I N C E I wrote to you, I have ta¬ 
 ken or deliver’d the poor Wo- 
 b The Letters were directed to Mr. Davenant. 
 
 man 
 
( <5 ) 
 
 man of three more Rabbets, all three 
 half grown, one of them adunn Rab- 
 bet; the laft leap’d twenty three Hours 
 in the Uterus before it dy’d. As foon 
 as the eleventh Rabbet was taken a- 
 way, up leap’d the twelfth Rabbet, 
 which is now leaping. If you have 
 any curious Perfon that; is pleafed to 
 come Poft, may fee another leap in 
 her Uterus , and flhall take it from her 
 if he pleafesj which will be a great 
 Satisfaction to the Curious: If fhe had 
 been with Child, fhe has but ten Days 
 more to go, fo I do net know how 
 many Rabbets may be behind 3 I have 
 brought the Woman to Guilford for 
 better Convenience. 
 
 I am , S 1 r. 
 
 Your humble Servant, 
 John Howard. 
 
 If you fetid a Perfon , let him 
 bring a Letter from you . 
 
 Thefe 
 
( 7 ) 
 
 Thefe Letters, with others to Perfons 
 of Diftin&ion in Town, which all 
 agreed with the above-mentioned, 
 were fufficient to make me defirous of 
 being convinced perfonally of a Fadt 
 of which there was no Inftance in Na¬ 
 ture. Accordingly on the i jth In- 
 ftant, I attended the Honourable Mr. 
 Molyneux , Secretary to his Royal 
 Hishnefs the Prince of H^ales. who 
 was mclin d to enquire into the Truth 
 of this extraordinary Cafe, and defird 
 me to go with him to Gtuljord: We 
 arrived there at about half an hour af¬ 
 ter two in the Afternoon. We fent 
 to Mr. Howard , who came to us im¬ 
 mediately, and told us that the Wo¬ 
 man was actually in Labour of the 
 fifteenth Rabbet. We had not been at 
 his Houfe long, before the Nurfe who 
 attends the Woman came to call Mr. 
 Howard to her, fhe being then in one of 
 her labour Pains. She 
 
She was lodged over againft Mr. 
 Howard s Houfe, we found her drefs’d 
 in her Stays, fitting on the Bed-fide 
 with feveral Women near her. I im¬ 
 mediately examined her, and not find¬ 
 ing the Parts prepared for her Labour, 
 I waited for the coming on of frefh 
 Pains, which hapned in three or four 
 minutes, at which time I deliver’d her 
 of the entire Trunk, ftrip’d of its 
 Skin, of a Rabbet of about four 
 Months growth, in which the Heart 
 and Lungs were contained with the 
 Diaphragm entire. I inftantly cut off 
 a piece of them, and tried them in 
 Water $ they feemed but juft fpecifically 
 lighter than it, and Mr. Molyneux pref- 
 fing them to the Bottom they rofe a- 
 gain very fiowly; the Heart was very 
 large, and irs Foramen Ovale entirely 
 open 5 the Lungs were remarkably 
 (mail, and of a much darker Colour 
 2 • than 
 
 r\ 
 
(9 > 
 
 than commonly the Lungs are of fuch 
 Rabbets, who have breathed for fome 
 time. No Perlon but my felf touch'd 
 her, from the firfl: time that I had ex¬ 
 amined her, to the time of her being 
 deliver'd by me: Her Pains were pret¬ 
 ty fmart, and lafted for lome Minutes 5 
 they went off the Moment fhe was de¬ 
 liver'd, and fhe feem’d cnearful and 
 eafy 3 walked by herfelf from the Bed- 
 ' fide to the Fire, and fat on a Chair, 
 where I examined her 3 and found, that 
 in the Courfe of the Fallopian Tubes , 
 there were fome Inequalities, but more 
 fcnfibly on the right fide of her Belly; 
 which made me conjecture that the 
 Rabbets were bred in thofc Tubes, 
 and only came into the Uterus, when 
 they gave her thofe Agitations, which, 
 according to the account of Mr. How¬ 
 ard, and of feveral other Perfons, 
 B 
 
 were 
 
m - 
 
 ( ) 
 
 were fenfibly felt many Hours before 
 their Exclufion. 
 
 As there was no Blood nor Water 
 that ifilled from the Hagtna^ after I 
 had delivered her, I again examined 
 that Part, and found it not in the leaft 
 inflamed or lacerated. 
 
 Upon examining her Breads, I found 
 Milk in one of them, but only a lit¬ 
 tle yellowifh Scrum in the other. 
 
 Her Pulfe was regular, but fome- 
 what low 5 her Tongue florid 5 and 
 upon asking for her Water, thofe a- 
 bout her anfwered, fhemade very little, 
 and that they had not faved any. 
 
 She informed us, that in the Inter¬ 
 vals of her Labour-Pains (he was to¬ 
 lerably eafy, and had no inclination 
 for any fort of Food but Beef. 
 
 About two Hours after we had left 
 tjer, they came again to call Mr. 
 
 Howard , 
 
 
( 11 ) 
 
 Howard.\ flie being at that Time in 
 violent Labour-Pains ; but he and 
 my felf were gone to fee the Mayor, 
 who was then ill. The Nurfe that at¬ 
 tended her had delivered her, before 
 our return, of the lower Part of a Male 
 Rabbet, which we found totally with 
 the Trunk, which I had before extract¬ 
 ed : This was alfo ftrip’d of its Skin, 
 and compleatly perfect in all its Parts, 
 but more manifeftly fo in thofe of 
 Generation. 
 
 In the Reclum of this Animal, which 
 remain’d affix’d to the Body, we found 
 five or fix Pellets, much of the fame 
 Colour and Confiftence as the com¬ 
 mon Dung of a Rabbet, little Bodies, 
 like dried Fragments, being matted 
 together with a mucous Matter. The 
 like was obferved in fome other Parts 
 of thofe Rabbets, which had come away 
 before. In the other Bowels there was 
 B 2 a dirty 
 
-- 
 
 ( XI ) 
 
 a dirty colour’d Mucus , of the Na¬ 
 ture of that which is conftantly found 
 in the Bowels of all foetus Animals, 
 and which in thofe that void their 
 Excrements in Pellets, is commonly 
 hard and dry5 but the Matter in the - 
 Guts of the firft Animal was of an 
 entire different Kind, Colour and Sub- 
 fhnee from any of the reft, this be¬ 
 ing like little Filaments of an Animal 
 Subftance. In the Middle of the Gut 
 Ilium of this Creature, I found a ve¬ 
 ry (lender, brittle, white Body, of the 
 Length of half an Inch, which in Shape 
 was like a very Email Fifli-bones. 
 
 Between fix and leven the fame 
 Evening we again viiited her 3 we 
 had not been there long, before ffie 
 fell into violent Labour-Pains, info- 
 much that four or five Perfons cou’d 
 hardly confine her to an Arm-Chair : 
 
 As foon as the Violence of the firft 
 
 Pain 
 
 X 
 
( r 3 ) 
 
 Pain was fomewhat abated, I examin¬ 
 ed her as before, and found the Va- 
 grna perfectly clear 3 and the Orifice of 
 the Uterus fo far clofed, as not to ad¬ 
 mit of the little Finger. I conftantly 
 flood before her, nor did any Perfon 
 whatfoever touch her, during that 
 Time. After three or four very ftrong 
 Pains, that lafted feveral Minutes, I 
 delivered her of the Skin of the above- 
 faid Rabbet, rolled and Iqueezed up 
 like a Ball, without the leaft Moifture 
 or Blood about it 5 upon which fhe re¬ 
 cover’d of her Pain. 
 
 From that T ime I did not ftir from 
 before her, nor did I withdraw my 
 
 Hand, but to deliver the Skin to a 
 ftanaer by. 
 
 About ten Minutes after, as near 
 as I can judge, fhe again fell into La¬ 
 bour-Pains, though more hidden and 
 ftort than the former 3 at which time 
 1 I again 
 

 - 
 
 ( 14 ) 
 
 I again deliver’d her of the Head of 
 the Rabbet, with the Furr on, part of 
 one of the Ears being torn off, alfo 
 without any Blood or Moifture: And 
 as to thefe two Deliveries, and par¬ 
 ticularly as to the Circumftances of 
 the latter, Mr. Molyneux having drawn 
 up an Account of this whole Affair, for 
 his own private Satisfaction j immedi¬ 
 ately upon our return to London 3 ibeg 
 leave to refer, for the Conviction he had 
 of the Truth thereof, to that Account, 
 which I have his leave to fay, he will 
 communicate to any Gentleman that 
 is defirous to perufe it. 
 
 After this flie foon grew eafy, and Mr. 
 Howard gave her a fleeping Draught. 
 
 About ten in the Evening we faw 
 the Woman for the laft Time, fhe 
 being then in Bed : Having felt her 
 Belly, I found it foft, except thofe 
 Lumps, which {Fill were in the fame 
 Place as before mentioned. Be- 
 
(*5 ) 
 
 Between the Times of vifiting the 
 Woman, we examined the feveral 
 Rabbets, which were ail kept feparate 
 in diftinct Pots, with Spirits of Wine, 
 in the Order that they were brought 
 away. 
 
 The firft Animal did not appear 
 to be a perfect Rabbet, in all its Parts, 
 three of the Feet being like the Paws 
 of a Cat, the Stomach and Inteftines 
 like thofe Parts in the fame Animal, 
 as alio the Shape and Figure of the 
 Thorax ,* the Lungs and Heart of 
 which were entirely out of their natu¬ 
 ral Situation, and fqueezed out between 
 the upper Ribbs and Vertebra of the 
 Neck, to which Parts they ftrongly 
 grew and adhered. The Lungs of 
 this Creature, had they been placed 
 in their natural Cavity, would not 
 have filled above a fixth Part of it: 
 The Bones of this Creature being al- 
 
 fo 
 
cr ~ " 
 
 c id) 
 
 fo different in Subftance and Stru&ure, 
 from thofe of common Rabbets, the 
 Head and one Paw only excepted. 
 
 All the other thirteen Animals were, 
 in every Particular, like well formed, 
 common, natural Rabbets,from the Size 
 of two Months Growth to four. They 
 were all broken in Pieces, and much 
 in the fame Manner. I fhall deferibe 
 thefe pieces in the Order that Mr. 
 Howard told us they had commonly 
 been brought away. Firft the four Paws 
 with the Furr on; then the Liver and 
 Inteftines ,* the Trunk and Shoulders in 
 another Part: In three or four Animals 
 the Loyns feparated from the Os Sa¬ 
 crum ; and in the reft, the Ifchhim 
 and Thighs in one piece, with the 
 Loyns - j the Head with its Furr, and 
 laftly the Skin. 
 
 When all thefe feveral Parts were 
 put together in their proper Order, they 
 
 manifeftly 
 
( 17 ) 
 
 manifeftly made up, and appeared to 
 belong to the above-mentioned Ani¬ 
 mals: But the Vtfcera were wanting in 
 four or five of them. One remark¬ 
 able Circumftance is, that moft of 
 thefe Animals were Females, as far as 
 I could judge. 
 
 The Heart and Liver of thofe 
 which we examined, appeared much 
 larger than ufual, when compared 
 with the Lungs and Inteflnns which 
 belonged to them 3 which on the con¬ 
 trary were extremely ftnall. The Coe- 
 cum and Colon, which are remarkably 
 large in Rabbets, appeared not to ex¬ 
 ceed in bignefs the other Inteftines, and 
 the fpiral Structure of the Coecum was 
 not yet unfolded; the Stomach was in 
 like manner much contracted, and its 
 Ptlorus very ftreight and narrow. 1 
 coudnotdilcover, in any of the Livers 
 that 1 examin’d, the Ductus Venofus , 
 C nor 
 
u 
 
 ( 18 ) 
 
 nor the implantation of the Umbeliccil 
 Vein in that Organ. 
 
 I open’d three or four of the Hearts, 
 and found in every one of them the 
 Foramen Ovale , and the Dufclus Avten- 
 efus fully open, the two Trunks of the 
 Defcendant Cava united at the right 
 Auricle of the Heart, agreeable to that 
 Structure which is peculiar to natural 
 Rabbets, and fome few other Ani¬ 
 mals. 
 
 The Flefli of thefe Creatures, par¬ 
 ticularly of that which I extracted, had 
 the fmell of Rabbets juft killed: and 
 the Subftance of their Bones were, in 
 all refpe&s, like the Bones of Foetus 
 Rabbets 5 in feveral of them the Fpi- 
 phyfes were feparated from the Bones 
 themfelves. 
 
 All the Heads which I examin’d 
 had their compleat number of Teeth, 
 four Cutters before, and ten Grinders 
 
( ip ) 
 
 on each fide, but they appeared not in 
 the lead worn nor ftained, as the Teeth 
 of other Rabbets arebyMaftication. 
 
 The Nails of the Paws were moil 
 of them exceedingly fharp. 
 
 The Skins were all produced, being 
 drefs’d in Allunij they were of feveral 
 Colours, as to their Furr, which was 
 confiderably long, and in one particu¬ 
 larly (which was the fifth Rabbet,) 
 that part which cover’d the Head was 
 curled. 
 
 The Rabbet which I extracted 
 weigh’d one and twenty ounces Aver- 
 dupoize , making an allowance for one 
 of the Paws not yet come away, and 
 part of the Fifcera that were loft. 
 
 From all thefe Confiderations I was 
 fully convinced, that at the fame time 
 that the external Appearance of thefe 
 Animals was exactly like fuch Creatures, 
 as muft inevitably undergo the Chan- 
 C 2 ges 
 
---- —* 
 
 ges that happen to adult Animals, by 
 Food and Air, they carry’d within 
 them the ftrongeft Marks of Foetus's, 
 even by fuch parts as cannot exift in 
 an Adult, and without which a Foetus 
 cannot poffibly be fuppofed to live. 
 This, I think, proves in the ftrongeft 
 Terms poffible that thefe Animals were 
 of a particular kind, and not bred in 
 a natural Way; nor will there be any 
 doubt remaining (even with the lealV 
 knowing in thefe matters) when thofe 
 parts which are fubfervient to the Cir¬ 
 culation of the Blood, and Nourifti- 
 ment between an adult Creature and 
 its Foetus are brought away; which I 
 am fully fatisfied muft fhortly happen, 
 or, if retained, be the Caufe of this 
 Woman’s Death. 
 
 All thefe Fabfs were verify’d before 
 hisMajefty,on Saturday Nov. the 26th, 
 by the Anatomical Demonftration of 
 
 the 
 
( *1 ) 
 
 the firfl, the third, fifth, and ninth of 
 thefe Animals, which were compared 
 with the parts of two natural Rabbets, 
 the one of the Age of four Months, 
 and the other of five Days, Dr. Stei- 
 gerthal and Dr. TeJJier being prefent. 
 
 I fhall with all convenient fpeed 
 publifh the Anatomy of thefe Preter¬ 
 natural Rabbets, with their Figures ta¬ 
 ken from the Life, and compared with 
 the Parts of Rabbets of the fame 
 growth, that the differences before 
 mention’d may be fully underflood. 
 
 In the mean while, I fhall relate 
 what appear d in the Diffecftion of two 
 Rabbets, which I performed in the 
 Prefence of Air. Adolyyioux^ the very 
 Day that we returned from Guilford $ 
 the one was of four Months growth, 
 and much of the Size of that which I 
 had taken from tneWomaa, the other 
 was barely fifteen Days old. The 
 
 Lungs 
 
Lungs of the larger were, as nearly 
 as I can judge, twenty times bigger in 
 Capacity than thofe of the preternatu¬ 
 ral one, and the Lungs Oi the fmaller 
 were at leaft eight times the bignefsof 
 the fore - mentioned j both thefe were 
 exceedingly different, in Colour and 
 Confiftence, from thofe of the pre¬ 
 ternatural Rabbet. 
 
 The Foj 'amen Ovale of the fmaller 
 Rabbet was more than two thirds o- 
 pen, and that in the larger was io far 
 clofed, as but juft to admit a very 
 fmall Probe. 
 
 As to the Stomach and Inteftines, the 
 difference was fo notorioufly great from 
 thofe we had examined, that even in 
 the fucking Rabbet, the Stomach and 
 Coecum were at leaft three times larger 
 than thofe parts in the preternatural 
 ones. 
 
 I ftiall give no other Account of the 
 
 Woman, 
 
( 2 3 ) 
 
 Woman, than what I think pertinent 
 to this Subject: By the feveral Quefti- 
 ons which I put to her, 1 was informed, 
 that £he was born and bred at Godly- 
 man t, She feem’d to be of a healthy 
 ftrong Conftitution, of a fmall fize, 
 and fair Complexion • of a very ftu- 
 pid and fullen Temper: She can nei¬ 
 ther write nor read: She has been mar¬ 
 ried about fix Years to one JoJhuaToft y 
 Junior, a poor Journey-man Clothier 
 at Godlyman , by whom fihe has had 
 three Children. The account fihe fur¬ 
 ther gave of herfelf, was, that on the 
 23d of April laft, as fihe was weeding 
 in a Field, fihe faw a Rabbet fpring 
 up near her, after which fihe ran, with 
 another Woman that was at work juft 
 by her j this fet her a longing for Rab¬ 
 bets, being then, as fihe thought, five 
 Weeks gone with Child $ the other Wo¬ 
 man perceiving (he was uneafy, charg- 
 1 ed 
 
( 14 ) 
 
 ed her with longing for the Rabbet 
 they cou’d not catch, but Ibe deny d 
 it: foon after another Rabbet fprung 
 up near the fame place, which (he en¬ 
 deavour’d likew'ife to catch. The fame 
 Night flie dreamt that Ibe was in a 
 Field with thofe two Rabbets in her 
 Lap, and awaked with a lick Fit, which 
 failed till Mornings from that time, for 
 above three Months, flie had a con- 
 ftant and llrong delire to eat Rabbets, 
 but being very poor and indigent cou’d 
 not procure any. About feventeen 
 Weeks after her longing, Ibe was ta¬ 
 ken with a Flooding and violent Cho- 
 lick Pains, which made her to mifcar- 
 ry of a Subllance that Ibe faid was like 
 a large lump of Flefh. Three Weeks 
 after this, flie was again taken with a 
 Flooding, and voided another Sub- 
 ftance like the former, but not fo large. 
 Notwithllanding thefeA ccidents, Ibe 
 
 did 
 
(m) 
 
 did not perceive her felf to grow lefs, 
 but continued with the Symptoms of 
 a breeding Woman j infomuch that in 
 the beginning of September, as fhewas 
 working in the Hop-Ground, the 
 Milk flow’d profufely from her Breafls ; 
 and as fhe had Children before, fhe 
 thought flie felt very differently from 
 what fhe ufed to do. That on the 
 2.7th of September laft fhe was taken 
 very ill in the Night, and fent for her 
 Mother in Law, who is a Midwife, 
 and a neighbouring Woman, at which 
 time fhe voided fomewhat, which fhe 
 took to be the Lights and Guts of a 
 Pig, which her Husband carried to 
 Mr. Howard^ who fome Days after¬ 
 wards came to her and deliver’d her 
 of fome parts of the Animal firft men¬ 
 tion d. After a Fortnight fhe was 
 Churched, and thought all was over 
 D with 
 
( 16 ) 
 
 with her. She told me that her Hus¬ 
 band had not cohabited with her, from 
 the time of her firfl: Mifcarriage; and 
 that after the firfl: Rabbet was brought 
 away, fhc had one regular Menflrual 
 Evacuation. 
 
 The Account Mr. Howard gave 
 was, in every material Circumftance, 
 the fame with the Woman s Relation 3 
 he fud the Guts and Liver (as he 
 thought) of a Rabbet were brought 
 to him, but he never knew or heard 
 of the Woman or her Friends till 
 then, and that at firfl: he took this to 
 be intended to be an Impofition upon 
 him : but was at lafl: with much Per- 
 iuafion prevail’d on to go to aflifl: her 
 at Godly man 3 that he did accordingly 
 deliver her of part of the firfl: Rabbet 3 
 that he attended her at Godlyman y 
 till fhe was delivered of the ninth 3 
 
 but 
 
( *7 ) 
 
 but that it being very inconvenient to 
 attend her there, which made him 
 negled all his other Bufinefs, he had 
 brought her to Guilford for better Con- 
 veniency. 
 
 Mr. Howard further related, that 
 when fhe was delivered of one Rab¬ 
 bet, another was immediately felt in 
 her Belly, ftruggling with fuch Vio¬ 
 lence, that the Motion thereof cou’d 
 be fenfibly felt and feen: That this 
 Motion has fometimes been fo ftrong, 
 as to move the Bed-Clothes, and that 
 it has lafted for twenty and above 
 thirty Hours together. This particu¬ 
 lar Fad was unanimoufly agreed on, 
 and attefted by moft of the People 
 at Guilford\ who have had the Curio-- 
 /ity to go to iee her, and was confirm- * 
 ed to Mr. Molyneux and my felf by 
 above ten different Perfons, who all 
 D 2 feemed 
 
( 28 ) 
 
 feemed to be indifferent in this Mat¬ 
 ter. 
 
 Mr. Howard further told me, that, 
 during this Motion, {he was always 
 free from Pain, and chearful; but 
 that immediately upon the cealing of 
 it, {lie grew fick, and foon began to per¬ 
 ceive her Labour-Pains drawing near; 
 that upon her firft Pains, the Bones 
 of the Animal were fenfibly heard to 
 fnap, and break by the violent convul- 
 fiveMotions of th zUterus: This laft Cir- 
 cumftance was likewife related by the 
 fame Perfons that attefted the former. 
 He further added, that fhe had four 
 breakings of Waters in the coming of 
 the Rabbets, although in no great 
 Quantity. 
 
 On t'Fednefday the 23d Inftant, I 
 fet out again for Guilford , with Mr. 
 D’Anteny , being refolved to bring the 
 ,2 Woman 
 
( *9 ) 
 
 Woman to Town, if there was any 
 further profped of more Rabbets. 
 We arrived there at one in the After¬ 
 noon, and we found Mr. Howard 
 {landing at his Door, w ho told us, that 
 five had been delivered of two more 
 Rabbets fince I had feen her, and that 
 he hoped all was over, being he did 
 not perceive in the Uterus any Motion 
 as ufual. I vifited her feveral times 
 that Day, and proceeded in every re- 
 fped as before3 her Pains, which, 
 when I faw her the firft Time, were' 
 mixed with intervals of Quiet and Reft 
 now were conftant and fixed on the right 
 Side of her Belly; herPulfe was more 
 irregular; (he deferibed her Pain as if 
 very coarfe brown Paper was tearing 
 rom within her. Towards eight a Clock 
 that Evening (he voided a Piece of 
 one of the Membranes of a Placenta 
 
 > 
 
 rolled 
 
( 3 ° > 
 
 rolled up like Parchment; when it 
 was extended, it meafured about fix 
 Inches over. The next Morning, as 
 I was packing up of fome of the Rab¬ 
 bets to bring to Town with me, Mr. 
 Howard was fent for oyer, and Mr, 
 T?Anteny, Dr. Hempe, and my felf 
 attended him. We found her in ex- 
 quifite Torture, and after feven or 
 eight Minutes, fide was again disbur- 
 then’d of a Membrane, in Stru&ure, 
 Shape and Size exadly like the for¬ 
 mer. This was the firft part that I faw 
 come from her with fome effufion of 
 Blood. She did not feem in the lead 
 reliev’d after this Operation, her Pulfe 
 continu’d irregular, her Tongue white, 
 and her Urine deeply ftained with a 
 Mucus: and livid Blood. 
 
 Mr. 
 
( 3 1 ) 
 
 Mr. Ablers having been at Guil¬ 
 ford, by his Majetty's Order, (as Mr. 
 Howard told us) to enquire into the 
 Truth of this Fad, was fully con¬ 
 vinced of it, as he himfelf declared, ha¬ 
 ving aflifted the greatett part of Sun- 
 day the 20th inftant, at the Delivery 
 of fome of the 16th Rabbet, which 
 he brought to Town with him. But 
 as on this Occafion his Behaviour has 
 been reprefented here different from 
 what it was at Guilford\ I cannot bet¬ 
 ter vindicate that Gentlemans Cha- 
 ra&er, than by fubjoyning the fol¬ 
 lowing Affidavits, which were ta¬ 
 ken in the prefence of Mr. D'An- 
 teny, and Dodor Hampe. And that 
 the Truth, f 0 far as it relates 
 to this point, may be known, 
 
 I think he is ftridly obliged, i n 
 
 Juftice 
 
{ 3 1 ) 
 
 Juftice to the Publick, forthwith to 
 give an Account of what he faw and 
 tranfa&ed there ; as I here have done. 
 
 London, Monday 
 Nov. 28. 1726. 
 
 N. St. Andre. 
 
 T HAVE carefully read the dbtve Narrative. 
 I Whether the Animals mentioned therein were 
 fraternatnrally produced in this Woman, or that 
 a Fraud is practicable in this Cafe, I do hot take 
 upon me to fay: Gentlemen who^ are fufficient Judges 
 will determine that Matter upon proper Evidence > l 
 can only certify, That I did draw up a Relation as 
 is above-mentioned, which, in the moft material Cir- 
 cumfiances . of Fait, agrees with this Narrative 
 and I can further affirm, that I did not perceive 
 the leaf Circumfiance of Fraud in the Conduit of 
 this Affair while 1 was at Guilford. 
 
 K 07 . 2 J ). 1726. 
 
 S. Molvneux. 
 
( 33 ) 
 
 1 keth Oath, That on Sunday the twen- 
 
 * tieth Day of this inftant Month of 
 ‘ November , at or about ten a Clock 
 ‘ in the Morning, he this Deponent 
 ‘ was called home to a Perfon who 
 ‘ told him his name was Ablers ; that 
 
 * he was come to fee Mary Toft\ 
 
 ‘ that he was ordered by his Majefty 
 4 to attend her till all was over 5 and 
 4 that he was Surgeon to his Majefty’s 
 4 German Houfhold. And this De- 
 4 ponent faith, That at that very time 
 4 the Nurfe of the faid Mary Toft 
 ‘ came to acquaint this Deponent, 
 4 that the faid Mary Toft was in La- 
 4 bour: And thereupon this Depo- 
 4 nent carried the faid Mr. Ahlers 
 4 over to her with him, and having 
 4 touched her in. his Prefence, defired 
 4 him to examine her, for that he found 
 
 * things ready for a Delivery. 
 
 E i That 
 
Z7 
 
 ( 34 ) 
 
 That Mr. Ahlers did accordingly 
 examine 5 but this Deponent finding 
 that he did not haften her Delivery, 
 nor that he proceeded as one who 
 underftands Midwifery fhould do, 
 this Deponent directed him how to 
 proceed in the Extraction, which 
 after fome time Mr. Ahlers effect¬ 
 ed , having brought away the Loins 
 and inferior Parts of a Rabbet, of 
 about three Months Growth. That 
 after this Mr. Ahlers told this De¬ 
 ponent, and all the Perfons prefent, 
 that he was fully fatisfied, and con¬ 
 vinced of the Truth, and that he 
 could have no Doubts after fuch 
 Proofs. That at the fame time he 
 gave the Woman a Guinea, expref- 
 fiag great Satisfaction, and promifing 
 that he would procure her a Pen- 
 fion from his Majefty : That he re¬ 
 peated the fame Things to Mr. Tho. 
 Howard in this Deponent’s Prefence, 
 
( 35 \ 
 
 < nor did he offer any Objedions or 
 
 < Doubts to them. That iome time- 
 
 < after Mr. Ablers defired to touch the 
 1 Woman again j but as at the time 
 1 before he had put her to a great 
 4 deal of unneceffary Pain, this De<- 
 4 ponent defired him to forbear. That 
 4 lome time after Mr. Ahlers faid he 
 4 was not well, and that he muff 
 4 haften back to London. That this 
 4 Deponent preffed him to ftay, that 
 4 he might affift at the bringing away 
 4 of the Remainder of the Rabbet, but 
 4 could not prevail on him$ and foon 
 4 after he accordingly fet out for 
 4 London , although it was almoft 
 4 dark. 
 
 John Howard. 
 
 Jur. vice/imo quinto die Novembris, 
 
 Anno Reg. Regis Geo. &c. 13. 
 
 Anno Dora. 1716. cor am 
 
 Jos. Burtt Mayor. 
 
 James Cliffton. 
 
 E 2 Mary 
 
( 3 « ) 
 
 jVL^y ^ ie ^ Tofty 
 
 c of Godly man in the County of 
 
 * Surrey , Clothworker, and Mary 
 ‘ Cojlen Nurfe to the fa;d Mary 
 1 Toft y fevcrally make Oath, That 
 c Mr. Ahlers declared it was wonder- 
 1 ful People would not believe a Fa£t 
 f that was fq true as this appeared to 
 c him, and thp faid Mary Toft faith, 
 ‘ That Mr. Ahlers examined her 
 
 * Breafts, and found Milk in one of 
 1 them. 
 
 The Mark of 
 Mary $ Toft., 
 
 The Mark of 
 Mary * Cojlen . 
 
 Jur. Die X 3 Ayno fujttadift. 
 coram 
 
 Jos. Burtt Mayor. 
 
 James Cliffton. 
 
 Eliza* 
 
( 17 ) 
 
 fLizabeth Helmes of Guilfordm the^g^ 
 County of Surrey Widow, maketh*"* J 
 ‘ Oath, That on Sunday the twentieth 
 1 Day of this inftant November, at a- 
 £ bout four in the Afternoon, fhe ask- 
 * ed Mr. Ahlers , who dined then at 
 < her Houfe, bearing the Sign of the 
 ( White-Heart ,whether he believed this 
 1 Account j and that his Anfwer was, < 
 ‘ That he fully did believe it. To which 
 c this Deponent reply’d 3 Then I hope, 
 
 ‘ Sir, you will convince a great many 
 i Unbelievers when you return to Lon- 
 i don , as fome other Gentlemen have 
 ■ already done 3 to which he faid he 
 ‘ Ihould, as this Deponent apprehend- 
 ‘ ed, 
 
 Eliz. Helmes. 
 
 Jur’ yietjimo quinta die Novembris 
 An. Reg. Regis Geo. <*rc. 13 . Anna 
 Domini iyz6. coram 
 
 Jos. Burtt Mayor. 
 
 JamesCliffton. 
 
 Olive 
 
( 3 8 ) 
 
 Live the Wife of John Sands 
 of Guilford in the County of Sur- 
 
 4 rey Sadler, maketh Oath, That {he 
 4 was conftantly in the room on San- 
 4 day the twentieth infant with Mr. 
 
 4 Ablers, from eleven ih the Morning 
 4 to three in the Afternoon. That 
 ‘ Mrs. Helmes called him to Dinner, 
 
 4 that during the whole time the Wo-, 
 4 man was in violent Labour, and that 
 4 he did not leave her in all that time 
 4 but to go to" Dinner. That this De- 
 4 ponent faw Mr. Ahlers examine the 
 4 W oman’s Breads, and found Milk in 
 4 one of them, and that (he heard him 
 4 fay he was ordered by his Majefty 
 4 to attend the faid* Woman, Mary 
 4 Toft , till it was all over. And fur- 
 4 ther faith, that the laid Mr. Ahlers 
 4 faid he would endeavour to get the 
 4 Woman a Penfion from his Majefty, 
 
 or 
 
( 19 ) 
 
 <• or Words to that effeft, on his 
 
 < feeming fatisfied of the Mifery the 
 
 ‘ Woman underwent. 
 
 Olive Sands, 
 
 Jur. Die 6? Anno 
 fupraditt. coram 
 
 Jos. Burtt Mayor. 
 
 James Cliffton. 
 
 'T'Homas Howard of Guilford in the Coun- Guilford') 
 ‘ t y of Surrey Surgeon, maketh Oath,™Cam’J 
 
 < That on Sunday the twentieth Day of this 
 
 < inftant Month of November, this Depo- 
 
 < nent went to fee the poor miferable Wo- 
 
 * man Mary Toft, about three of the Clock 
 
 < in the Afternoon, where he found in her 
 f Chamber one Mr. Ablers, a Surgeon, who 
 ‘ told this Deponent he was come to fee 
 
 < her the faid Woman, and that he was or- 
 ‘ dered by his Majefty to attend her till ’twas 
 « all over. That the faid Mr. Ahlers him- 
 ‘ felf, in the aforefaid Chamber, fhewed this 
 
 < Deponent the Loins and inferior Parts of a 
 ‘ Rabbet, which he told this Deponent he ex- 
 
 * TRACTED HIMSELF OUT OF THeUtEPvUS. 
 
 * That this Deponent asked him what his 
 
 * Opinion was in this Cafe, to which he an- 
 ‘ fwered, and told this Deponent, he was 
 
 ‘ FULLY 
 
( 4° ) 
 
 4 FULLY CONVINCED AND SATISFIED THAT 
 
 * it came out of the Uterus. That then 
 
 * the Deponent asked him, if 'twas poflible 
 4 it could be forced or thruft into the Ute- 
 4 rus ; to which his Anfwer was, N o. That 
 4 after this Deponent was with him at the 
 
 * White Hart-Inn in Guilford, and there Mr. 
 
 ‘ Ahlers repeated part of what he had faid ' 
 
 * before. That this Deponent there prefted 
 ‘ him very much to flay all Night, to take a- 
 
 * way all the reft of the Parts of the aforefaid 
 
 * Rabbet: Upon which he faid he had a Gid- 
 
 * dinefs, and a turning round in his Head, 
 
 * with a Pain on his Neck and Shoulders, 
 
 * and a foreriefs of his Throat, which made 
 
 * him very uneafy, and that he was refolved 
 
 * to go back to London. That the faid Mr. 
 
 4 Ahlers gave the Woman Money, and told 
 
 * her he would procure her a Penfion, and fo 
 4 took his leave of her. And this Deponent 
 
 * faith, that the faid Mr. Ahlers went from 
 
 * Guilford about five of the Clock in the Af 
 
 4 ternoon. Tho. Howard. 
 
 fur. vicejimofcpthno die Novembris 
 Anno Reg. Regis Geo. &c. 13. Anno 
 Domini , 1726. coram 
 Jos. Burtt Mayor. 
 
 James Cliffton. 
 
 FINIS. * 
 
NatiiaNiki. ST Andre , 
 
 I K.aTj'bit Doctor.) 
 
 — 
 
 
The Amtomifi Diffeded: 
 
 OR THE 
 
 Man-Midwife finely brought to Bed. 
 
 BEING AN 
 
 EXAMINATION 
 
 O F T H E 
 
 CONDUCT 
 
 O F 
 
 Mr. St. A ND R E. 
 
 Touching the late pretended'Rab¬ 
 bit-bearer; as it appears from 
 his own Narrative. 
 
 LEMUEL GuTTFfFr, 
 
 surgeon and Anatomift to the Kings of 
 Ltlkm and Blefuf'cu , and Fellow of 
 the Academy of Scienc es in Batniborbi. 
 
 The Second Edition. 
 
 WhL an L d r ° wls > un f een > themfehes betray. 
 
 When thefe attest to hoot , tbe fi t0 y” 
 
 _ __ Garth. 
 
 WESTMlNsT E R : 
 
 Printed by and for A r' . 
 r.M , J , L tor A. Campbell, and 
 
 mpl}:. rs of 
 
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 l 
 
 
 
 
 ■ 
 
The Anatomifi. Directed : 
 
 O R T H E 
 
 Man-Midwife finely brought to Eed. 
 
 BEING AN 
 
 EXAMINATION 
 
 O F T H E 
 
 CONDUCT 
 
 O F 
 
 Mr. St. ANDRE, &c. 
 
 FTER that long and 
 particular Detail of my 
 lelf, and of my various 
 Adventures in fo many 
 
 different and remote parts of the 
 Globe, as I have lately entertain’d 
 
 B the 
 
- rj - 
 
 „._ C 2 3 
 
 the Public with, 1 little thought 
 any private Occurrence, in ib fijiall 
 a Spot as the Ifland of Great Britain, 
 could have rous’d my Attention, and 
 broke in upon that Repoie, in whxh 
 I hop’d to have fpent the Remains of 
 a declining Life. But lmall and in- 
 confiderable as it; is, I confider it is 
 my own Country; the Thought of 
 which, together with that inextin- 
 guifhable Jhirft after Truth and 
 Knowledge, in regard to my ielf, and 
 an ardent Inclination of communi¬ 
 cating it to others, have prevail’d 
 upon me once more to be expos’d in 
 Print, in order to exprefs my Ab¬ 
 horrence of a late diabolical Impo- 
 fture: propagated, not fo much by 
 the Knavery of fome, as by the Ig¬ 
 norance and Stupidity of others. I 
 need not fay I mean the Rabbit Af¬ 
 fair; 
 
[ 3 1 
 
 fair ; with which, for fome Weeks 
 paft, the Minds of the People of this 
 Iiland have been fo ferioufiy and fo 
 fu> prizingly employ’d ; fo as fcarce 
 to leave them any Leilure for 
 Tnings of a more fublime Nature, 
 and of vaftly greater Confequence 
 and Importance. 
 
 And tho’ I verily believe this to 
 be the real and only Caufe, why the 
 Perufal of my Travels has been fo 
 negle&ed of late, which, by the De¬ 
 cay of the Sale, has fenlibly affected 
 a worthy and honeft Bookfeller ; yet 
 I declare to the World, that my Mo¬ 
 tives for entering the Lifts againft 
 Mr. St, Andre (a Perfon to me whol¬ 
 ly unknown, and unheard of till I 
 faw his Name in the News-Papers, 
 upon that unfortunate Accident, 
 B i whicfy 
 
rj 
 
 [4]^ 
 
 which befel him, when he fancied 
 he was poyfon’d) are, that little 
 Skill which, by my Education and 
 Experience, I have attain’d in Sur¬ 
 gery and Anatomy, and that great 
 Ignorance in both, which he has be¬ 
 tray’d upon this Occafion. 
 
 For tho’ that Gentleman’s Can¬ 
 dor is very great in fhewing iiich 
 a remarkable Alertnefs, at confefling 
 that he has been impos’d upon in 
 this Paltry Bufinefs; and tho’ per¬ 
 haps, by that he may flatter himfelf, 
 that he fhall elcape all further Cen- 
 iure, yet 1 (hall be at the Pains of 
 Convincing the World that he is 
 miftaken, even in this alfo; and that, 
 had he not been mod profoundly de¬ 
 ficient in that dil'cerning Penetra¬ 
 tion, with which all true Surgeons 
 
 make 
 
[5 ] 
 
 make Enquiries of this fort, he 
 might have dilcover’d this Impo- 
 fture at the very firft Sight, and not 
 have drawn in fo many Perfons of 
 diftinguifh’d Senfe and Figure, to 
 be gull’d and deluded by lb coarie 
 and palpable a F raud. 
 
 For, to begin with his Narrative; a 
 true Surgeon, one, I mean, orderly 
 and properly educated in that worthy 
 Profeffion, would never haveiufter’d 
 his Curiolity to be at all alarm’d by 
 feeing a Letter from Guildford , which 
 mention’d a Woman’s being deliver’d 
 of five Rabbits : Suppofe one were 
 to fee a Letter from Batterfea. , im¬ 
 porting that a Woman there had 
 been deliver’d of five Cucumbers, or 
 indeed a hundred Letters, would 
 that lead a Man of Senle to believe 
 
 any 
 
au 
 
 any Thing, but, either that the Peo¬ 
 ple who wrote thofe Letters had 
 been grofsly impos’d upon them- 
 felves, or intended to impofe upon 
 him. Either of thefe two Things 
 may, and do happen every Day^; 
 but it was never known, that ever 
 any Creature brought forth any one 
 Creature of a Species in all Refpeds 
 different from it lelf, much lefs five 
 or feventeen fuch Creatures; for 
 which therefore, a Man of com¬ 
 mon Senfe, much more a penetrate 
 ing and quickfighted Anatomift^ 
 fhould look upon all fuch Letters 
 with the utmoft Contempt. 
 
 Yet it was the Sight of two or 
 three fuch Letters (and thofe fla^ 
 grant with moll confpicuous To¬ 
 kens of Impofture) which induc’d 
 
 Mr- 
 
 £ 2 - 
 
C 73 
 
 Mr. St. Andre, at this time of the - 
 Year, to take two Journeys to 
 Guildford, in order to enquire into 
 the Truth of what, in Nature, it 
 was impoffible fhould be true. How¬ 
 ever, to Guildford he came for ue 
 firft time; where I fha'll attend him 
 a while, and watch his Motions, 
 perhaps to a better Purpofe than he 
 did thole of the Rabbit-bearing Wo¬ 
 man : For tho 1 , with all his Skill 
 he was not able to deteft her Fraud, 
 
 I hope with very little of mine to 
 difplay his Ignorance. 
 
 In the the firft Place, how ftupid 
 muft he have been, not to fufped 
 a Trick, when Howard, upon being 
 fent for, came and acquainted him, 
 that the Woman was actually in La¬ 
 bour of the fifteenth Rabbit. This 
 
 puts 
 
C 83 
 
 puts me in Miud of what, above fix 
 and Forty Years ago, I learn’d at 
 School; wh,ere the Sagacity of old 
 Simo in the Andria of the Terence ap¬ 
 pears, to the utter Shame of our mo- 
 dearn St. Andrians : The old Gentle¬ 
 man had Reafon to fufpeft Fraud 
 from the known Chara&er of a craf¬ 
 ty Knave he had to deal with ; and 
 whofe Bufinefs it was to make him 
 believe, that a certain Lady was juft 
 then in Labour: Accordingly, as 
 they approach her Houfe, the con¬ 
 trives to be in one of her Labour 
 Pains, and cries out lb loud that the 
 old Man muft needs hear it: upon 
 which, I remember, he fays, with 
 much Humour and Judgment, Hut, 
 tam cito? ndiculum. Toflquam ante oflu 
 urn me audivit flare , approperat. Non 
 fat commode divifa Junt temporibus 
 
 till, 
 
, tibi, Dave, base . For thus, had he 
 ] been credulous enough to go to 
 , Guildford to inquire into this Cheat, 
 he would have laid, in plain Englijk, 
 upon the like Occahon, JVbat a yosj 
 j! is Jhc [o quick ? this is the damndcjl 
 ... foke that ever was * the Moment Jbe 
 „ hears 1 am arrived , fie falls into one 
 of her Labour Tains : ahy Howard ! 
 
 ^ this was not well tvn d oj you ly 
 j. any means. 
 
 But, to return from this DigreHi- 
 
 on, if the Woman was aHually in 
 
 Cl" J 
 
 , Labour of the ffteenth Rabbity why 
 fhould Mr. Howard leave her, and 
 ftay with Mr. St. Andre till they 
 call’d him again, when (he was 
 : laid to be in one of her Labour 
 r Pains? Here a wile Man would 
 have frnelt a Rat in head of a Rab- 
 
 i/f - . 
 
 / 
 
 1 
 
 I 
 
 p 
 
 I 
 
 | 
 
 C 
 
 bit : 
 
 
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 ( JO ) 
 
 bit: And much more, when this 
 Woman in Labour Pains, and who 
 had been in Labour fome time then, 
 nay fourteen times before, was found 
 drefs’d in her Stays , and fitting on the 
 Bcd'ftde; and that not for want of 
 Help to put her to Bed; for there 
 were feveral Women near her. A Man 
 muft have a fpritely Genius for fwal- 
 lowing Impofture that was not ftag- 
 ger’d at fuch an Appearance. This 
 lure it was that prompted Mr. St. 
 Andre to wave all luch Reflections, 
 and proceed immediately to examine 
 her; when, tho’ by his own Cofi- 
 feffion, he did not find the Tarts fre - 
 f ar’d for her Labour , ("which was 
 another plain Indication of the Ro¬ 
 guery) yet he was weak enough to 
 wait for the coming on of frejh ‘Pains, 
 and, in three or four Minutes after, to 
 
 think 
 
§§■ ■ - ( 11 ) 
 
 think he deliver'd her of the intire trunk, 
 ftnfd of its Skin, of a Rabbit about 
 four Months Growth (he meant to 
 have faid, of an Animal of the oize 
 and Figure of a Rabbit ot four 
 Months Growth ) in which the Heart 
 and. Lungs were contain'd, with the 
 Diaphagm iutirc . Well? what does 
 my Gentleman then ? He inftantly 
 cut of a piece of them , and tried them 
 in Water ; in which they fwam, and 
 when they were prejs'd to the Bot¬ 
 tom, roje again. Now, it being no- 
 torioufly the Property of the Lungs 
 of a Foetus to fink, and of a Crea¬ 
 ture which has been tome time 
 brought forth alive to fwim, in Wa¬ 
 ter ; what but an abfolute Prepoffef- 
 fion in favour of this filthy Miracle, 
 or a confummate Ignorance in thefe 
 Matters could have hinder’d any fio- 
 C a bev 
 
 £ 
 
 H 
 
 
 
 r 
 
 ■ f; 
 
v 
 
 ( >3 ) 
 
 ber Inquirer from being determin’d 
 in relation to this Cheat, by the 
 foregoing Trial ? Yet Mr, St. Andre, 
 never boggles at this, nor at the 
 Impoflibility of the Trunk of ltich 
 a Creature’s (fuppos’d but juft be-* 
 tore to be alive) being ftript of its 
 Skin, by the contractive Faculty of 
 the Womb; nor at the Woman’s 
 being cbearful and cafy, and walking 
 hy her felf from the Bed-Jide to the 
 hire the Moment floe was deliver d • 
 But goes on conjecturing in a yet more 
 ablurd manner, that thefe Creatures, 
 (as big as Rabbits of four Months 
 Growth, which muft be within a 
 Trifle as big as full grown ones,) 
 were bred in the Fallopian Tubes; 
 and came into the Uterus one after 
 another, where they lay and kick’d, 
 till they were prel’s’d to Death, *md 
 
 flead. 
 
6 ( >2 ) 
 
 flead, and all their Bones broken, in 
 luch a manner, that they were fen- 
 liby heard to fnap, by the violent 
 convulhve Motions of it, 
 
 I take the Liberty to inform my 
 Readers, upon this Occafion, that 
 the Fallopian Tubes are a Paflage of 
 Communication, of fcarce three In¬ 
 ches long, between the Ovaria and 
 Uterus; thro’ which the Embryo , 
 after Conception, is convey’d from 
 the one to the other. And tho’ at 
 that End next the Uterus theyo- 
 pen, fomewhat like the Mouth of 
 a Trumpet, yet, when ftreteh’d to 
 the utmoft, the general Canal of 
 them fcarce exceeds the Thicknefs 
 of ones Finger : And therefore the 
 Impoffibility of any one luch Crea¬ 
 ture being contain’d there, much 
 
 lefs 
 
— ^ 
 
 ( H > 
 
 lefs of eighteen, as this Gentleman 
 fuppos’d, muft appear to every one 
 of a common Under (landing. He 
 tells us, no Blood nor Water iffued 
 from the Vagina after this Delivery, 
 and that her Pulfe was regular. 
 Monftrous! that none, of thefe in¬ 
 dications (liould open Mr. St. Andre, s 
 Eyes. If he thought at all, what 
 could he be thinking of? It is noto¬ 
 rious, that in Births of dead Chil¬ 
 dren, Women fuifer much more 
 Pain than in thole of Living ones; 
 £o as to be, during the Operation, in 
 high Fevers, with irregular Pulfes, 
 and left in great Weakneis after¬ 
 wards. Yet this Woman is deli¬ 
 ver’d of fifteen dead Rabbits, fuch as 
 of four Months Growth, without any 
 Alteration in her Pulle, without the 
 lead Inflammation or Laceration in 
 
 her 
 
x ( ^5 ) 
 
 her Vigina , walking from the Bed- 
 fide, fitting down in a Chair by 
 the Fire, as well as if nothing had 
 happen’d ; and skilful Mr. St. Ar , . 
 dre fwallowing this foul Impofture, 
 without the lead: Squeamiffinefs or 
 Reluctance. 
 
 In the ReSum of this Animal, 
 which remain’d affix’d to the Body,' 
 Mr. St. Andre finds five or fix 'Relief s 
 
 ‘ much °f nke fame dolour and Con -- 
 fiflewe of the common Rung of a Ral- 
 bit. Strange! that this ffiould not 
 alarm him! (it being notorious that 
 the Excrement of a Fains is always 
 : llc l uid ) >but this he iwallows Iike- 
 , Wlfe > as he does the Skin roll'd 
 ml Squeez'd uf Uke a Ball, which 
 he delivers her of home time after : 
 And not long after that, of the 
 
 tic ad, with the Fur on, R an 0 r 
 
 * * 
 
 a 
 
 one 
 
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 ( 16 ) 
 
 c „c of the Ears betng tom # Upon 
 all which Occafions, I mean thole o 
 the Womb’s having the Facu ty o 
 Sinninga Rabbit all but the He ad, 
 of rolling this Skin up like a B. , 
 and tearing off a P.ece of an Ear, 
 this Gentleman fpeaks as f^U 
 
 as if they were common Calej, 
 
 which wanted not in the lea 
 accounted for, or wonder d at. 
 
 In the Intervals between thele no- 
 
 table Deliveries, Mr. &. Andre di¬ 
 verted himfelf and hls Comp ‘ ,ny> , I 
 examining the feveral ™ 
 
 were hep ferrate, « dtfttnS Tots, 
 ■vitb Sprits of mnc in the Order 
 that they tvcre brought asvuy Her 
 likewife, I will do my felf the Ho- 
 nour to attend him. And now, 
 methinks, I fee him expatiating, 
 a very genteel adroit manner, upon 
 
[ >7 1 
 
 the general Refemblance, but parti¬ 
 cular and fignificant Difference be¬ 
 tween them and natural Rabbits. 
 
 a The firfl* fays he, does not appear 
 « to be a perfect Rabbit jn ail its Tarts. 
 (Here one would Tuppoie, the Dif¬ 
 ference lay in lome one or two, at 
 moft, minute, not eafily obfervable, 
 Circumftances, in which this Crea¬ 
 ture varied from a Rabbit: But, on 
 the contrary, it feems ’twas a per¬ 
 fect Cat in all its Parts, one or two 
 only excepted.) u Three of the Feet 
 u being like the Taws of a Cat • the 
 u Stomach and Intefhnes like thoje in 
 a the fame Animal ; as alfo the Shape 
 “ and Figure of the Thorax. Ob- 
 ‘ - ferve, the Lungs and Hearty how 
 u entirely they are oat of their natu- 
 cc ral Situation \ and fqueezd out be* 
 iC tween the upper Ribs , and Verte- 
 
 D 
 
 bra 
 
[ >8 ] 
 
 <c bise of the Meek ( doubtlefs by the 
 u convulfive Motion of the Uterus) 
 “ to which Tarts, obferve how 
 <c firongly they grow and adhere. The 
 u Lungs of this Creature, had they 
 cc been plac'd in their natural Cavi- 
 u ty, would not have fill'd above a fixth 
 u Tart of it. The Bones of this Crca- 
 u ture arc l ike wife all fo different in 
 ■ u Subfiance and Structure from thoje 
 u of common Rabbits, that o’myCon- 
 u fcience, the Head and one Taw 
 cc only excepted, I think it has not the 
 u leaft Refemblance of them. AH 
 (C the other thirteen Animals I pro- 
 i c nounce to be m every particular, like 
 u well-form’d, common, natural Rab- 
 u bits, from the fize of two Months 
 u Growth to four. Theje have been 
 iC all broken to pieces much in the 
 <c fame manner; but when thefc feve* 
 
 ral 
 
[«9] w 
 
 (c redparts are put together in their pro- 
 < c per order , they manifefily make up 
 (C and appear to belong to the abovemcn- 
 u tiond Animals. I confefs the Vif- 
 u cera are wanting in four or five of 
 u them ; but that is not very materi- 
 £C al; that Defeat is amply fupply’d 
 C£ by this one remarkable Circumfiance, 
 <c which is , that mofl of thefe Animals 
 ££ (for Rabbits I will not call them) 
 £< as far as I can judge, are Females. 
 a The Flefh of thefe Creatures , parti- 
 C£ cularly of that •which I extracted, has 
 ££ the Smell of Rabbits jufi kill'd ; and 
 u the Subfiance of their Bones are , in 
 u all refpeiHs , like the Bones of Foetus 
 ££ Rabbits. (How particular, how 
 ££ dilucid, and exaft is this part of 
 ££ his Lecture !) From all theje Con- 
 u fiderations (and many more too te- 
 u dious and impertinent to be reci- 
 
 D a ted 
 
 ♦ 
 
 a 
 
 i 
 
[*>3^ 
 
 ct ted) with greater Affurance than 
 u Knowledge, I am fully convinc'd, 
 u that, at the fame time that the ex* 
 u timed Appearance of theje Animals 
 <L is exactly like fuch Creatures as mujt 
 tc inevitably undergo the Changes that 
 <c happen to adult Animals, by Pood 
 ec and Air, they carry 'within them the 
 (C flrongcfl Marks of Foetus 7 j, even in 
 <( j Juch Parts as cannot exijl in an A- 
 a dult, and ‘without 'which a Foetus 
 a cannot pojfibly be fuppos d to live. 
 u This, 1 think, proves in thejlrongejl 
 u Terms pojfible, that theje Animals 
 u are oj a particular kind, and not bred 
 a in a natural way j nor will there be 
 u any Poult remaining (even with the 
 u leapt knowing in thefe Matters) 
 a when thefe things come to be 
 <c clear’d up by the Anatomy of theje 
 “ preternatural Rabbits (a preterna¬ 
 tural 
 
[ ] 
 
 “ tural Anatomift Thou art without 
 Difpute) which I jhall publifi <with 
 <c all convenient Speed, with their Fi~ 
 “ gures taken from the Life, and com - 
 ££ par d with the Tarts of Rabbits of 
 a the fame Growth ^he would have 
 ££ faid the fame fize) that the Diffc- 
 ££ vcnces before-mention d may be fully 
 C£ undcrflooci 
 
 This therefore the publick has 
 hill juft Realoii to inlift upon from 
 Mr. St. Andre • for, however he may 
 pretend to be impos’d upon by 6- 
 thers in the Delivery of thefe Sup- 
 polititious Rabbits, the learned ana¬ 
 tomical Oblervations, recited above, 
 are purely the Refult of his own 
 Skill and Judgment; and cannot 
 with any Colour of Reafon, be 
 plac d to the Account of Fraud and 
 
 Impofture 
 
T 
 
 [ 21 ] 
 
 Impofture in others. Efpecially tbofi 
 Fafis which he has the AfTurance to 
 fay were verified, before his jMajefiy on 
 Saturday, Nov. the ihtb, by the etna* 
 tomical c Demonflration of the firfl, the 
 third, fifth and ninth of thefe Animals. 
 
 However, not content with hav- 
 ingly diffidently plac’d his Reputati¬ 
 on at ftake in this audacious man¬ 
 ner (for fuch I muft call it) on the 
 wretched Obfervations abovementi- 
 on’d, out he fets for Guildford again , 
 being rcjolv’d to bring the iFoman to 
 Town if there was any Trofpctt of more 
 'Rabbits. What could this Crea¬ 
 ture, this Animal have in his Head 
 to hinder him from concluding 
 that a Woman in fuch a Con¬ 
 dition (were it poffible any Wo¬ 
 man could be in fuch a Condition) 
 
 ffiould 
 
f>3 3 
 
 fhould not be mov’d out of her Bed; 
 much lefs out of her Houfe, and 
 much lefs from Guildford to Lon¬ 
 don. Yet fince he is refolv’d upon 
 another Expedition, I am refolv’d 
 once more to attend him thither, 
 and obferve his Motions. 
 
 And here he is again fo keen up¬ 
 on this vile falfe Scent, that tho’ he 
 finds Mr. Howard handing at his 
 Door, who tells him that he hop’d 
 all was over, becaufe that he did 
 not perceive in the Uterus any Mo¬ 
 tion as ufual, yet he vifited her fe- 
 veral Times that Day, proceeded in 
 every Refped, with the fame Saga¬ 
 city as before; and towards eight- 
 a Clock that Evening, deliver’d her 
 of a Piece of one of the Membranes 
 of a Tlacenta (admirable! ) roll’d 
 
 up 
 
T 
 
 [ h 3 
 
 up like Parchment* This fhews how 
 well he is acquainted with the Tex¬ 
 ture of thofe Membranes. And his 
 Deficiency in that Point was further 
 confirm’d by a fecond Delivery of 
 (what he took to be) another Tiece 
 of Membrane , in Strutture, Shape and 
 Size , exa&ly like the former . 
 
 Thus I have touch’d upon, and 
 I hope abundantly expos’d the pro¬ 
 found Obiervations contain’d in Mr. 
 St. Andre s fhort Narrative. When¬ 
 ever he appears in Print again, upon 
 this Occafion, as I find he threat¬ 
 ens to do, I fhall again be ready to 
 guard the Public againft being de¬ 
 luded by his pretended Difcoveries. 
 And, tho’ it is not my Nature to 
 infult any Man upon Account of his 
 Misfortunes, whether brought up- 
 
1 
 
 ( 3 5 ) 
 
 on him by his own Folly, or the 
 Malice of others; yet give me 
 Leave to fay, it is, of the two, a 
 much more eligible Evil, that the 
 Prefumption of one ignorant Empi¬ 
 ric, Ihould undergo a public Challi- 
 fement, than the Under ftandings, of 
 lb many of his Majefty’s Loyal Sub¬ 
 jects, be corrupted by luch iham De- 
 
 monftrations. 
 
 i 
 
 |. But, after all, as 1 am a no lefs 
 ftrict Lover of Juftice, than an in- 
 ' defatigable Searcher after Truth; 
 
 now my Relentment of Mr. St. An - 
 ‘ dre 1 s ill Conduft in this Affair, if 
 fomewhat cool’d by the Liberty I 
 have taken in cenfuring and ex- 
 ; poling it, 1 fhall offer fomething, by 
 Way of Abatement of that levere 
 Conftruaion, the World will be apt 
 
 E 
 
 to 
 
— - 
 
 ( 16 ) 
 
 to pafs upon his Judgment in this 
 Affair. ; ' ^ 
 
 In the firfl Place, I have the Cha¬ 
 rity to believe he has been egre- 
 gioufly impos’d upon, in Relation 
 to the Character he has publidi’d 
 of Mr. Howard, whom he ftiles, a 
 Man of known Probity ; whereas that 
 Name is as notorious at Guildford , 
 and the Parts adjacent, for denoting 
 a Whisker, as ever mine was at 
 Redriff, for eftablifhing a Truth. 
 
 1 Secondly, it muff be confider’d that 
 the Pleafure of being talk’d of, and 
 heard to talk, in all Companies 
 public and private, as the very fe- 
 cond Difcoverer (Mr. Howard being 
 indifputably the firftj of this extra¬ 
 ordinary and praetrnatural Produ¬ 
 ction, muff needs fwell the Mind of 
 
( ?7 ) 
 
 a raw Pra&itioner with Vanity, and 
 make him run blindfold into a Se¬ 
 ries of Abfurdities ; no one of which, 
 at another Time, would have found 
 any Admittance within the Bar of 
 his Judgment. And Thirdly , The 
 Nature of Climates, together with 
 the leveral Makes, Capacities and 
 Tempers of the Inhabitants of diffe¬ 
 rent Countries, are the Realon why 
 Things may appear puzzling and 
 perplexing in one Place, which in a- 
 nother would be accounted for, with 
 the greateft Eafe and Certainty 
 imaginable; and why that, which 
 is here a Caufe of the higheft Ri¬ 
 dicule, in a contrary Part of the 
 Globe, would be the Occafion of 
 railing a Man’s Character to the 
 moll exalted Pitch of Dignity and 
 Reputation. > 
 
 For 
 

 ( >8 ) 
 
 For Example, had a Native of 
 the Kingdom of LiUifut, happen’d 
 to be in this our Ifland, when the 
 Story of the Rabbits was hrft ven¬ 
 ted at Court; and had luch a one 
 been difpatch’d to Guildford , in Or¬ 
 der to enquire into the Truth of 
 that Matter; upon the.ftrft View of 
 thole Pellets,'again# which Mr. St. 
 Andre had no Objection, he, with 
 his fine Microlcopic Eyes, would 
 have inftantly dilcover’d every par¬ 
 ticular Herb the Creature had 
 fed on that Meal. And what 
 Mr. St. Andre, calls a dirty* co¬ 
 lour'd Mucus, fitch as is conjlant- 
 ly found in the Bowels of all 
 Foetus Animals , and fuch as in thofe 
 that void their Excrements in ‘Pellet i, 
 is commonly hard and dry , our Lilli* \ 
 
 pitian 
 
( *9 ) 
 
 jnttian would have diftinguifh’d to 
 have been nothing but a Parcel of 
 mere Rabbit’s Dung, which to him 
 would have appear’d as coarfe and 
 and large as a Scavenger’s Load, 
 frefh taken from a Butcher’s Lay-ftull 
 would do to us. And that which, 
 in the middle of the Gut Ilium of the 
 Cat, Mr. St. Andre thought was like a 
 very fmallFijh Boties, the more quick- 
 lighted little Man would have de¬ 
 mon!! rated to have been nothing 
 more than the Bones of a Herring, 
 which that Creature had devoured 
 a few Hours before it was thru!! in¬ 
 to the Vagina of Mary Toffs Uterus . 
 Tho, as Arts are very much im¬ 
 prov’d with us, I queftion whether 
 a very ordinary magnifying Glafs, 
 fuch as Children ule to divert them- 
 
 ielves 
 
(30 ) 
 
 ielves with, might not have made 
 the Difcovery as well. 
 
 > • z-* z r*-t{ t r lJ. ' \ r 
 
 But, if I am rightly inform’d, as 
 to the Nature of Mr, St. Andres 
 Education, I am ftrangely furpriz’d 
 that He, of all People, thould appear 
 io unacquainted with the Materials 
 of which the Strings of a Fiddle are 
 compos’d. 
 
 . # 4 j f : % * # ? f r 
 
 Again, tho’, in any of the European 
 Nations, thofe that pretend to any 
 Skill in Anatomy or Midwifery 
 would be fcouted to Eternity for on¬ 
 ly queftioning, or going to make In¬ 
 quiry, whether it was poflible for a 
 Woman to be delivered of eighteen 
 Rabbits, from two to four Months 
 Growth ; or a Foetus of that Size, 
 but juft dead, and whofe Flefi fmelt 
 
 — like 
 
(*** ) 
 
 like that of a Rabbit newly kill'd^ 
 ftiould be voided in Fragments and 
 Bits; or that the fame Woman, not- 
 withftanding all theie Deliveries, 
 Ihould be, during the whole time, 
 perfectly healthy and well, feeding 
 on nothing but Beef, Red-herring, 
 fyc. or that a Piece of Hog’s Bladder 
 could be part of the Chorion , or 
 Membrane of the "Placenta ; yet give 
 me leave to lay, that in the King¬ 
 dom of Bdmbarbi , thefe things 
 would appear in quite another Light 
 There, tho’ a Virtuofo fhould only 
 endeavour at a Demonftration of 
 this kind, fpend many Years in the 
 Attempt, and all his Labours prove 
 abortive at laft, yet would his Sup- 
 pofitionsbe lure to meet with fo kind 
 a Reception from the publick, as to 
 procure, at lead, his being adopted, 
 
 nomine 
 
( 3 * ) 
 
 yiemine contradicente , into the Acade¬ 
 my of Sciences there; (of which I 
 profefs my felf an unworthy Mem¬ 
 ber.) Nay, it is ten to one but he 
 would be taken up into the floating 
 Ifland, and appointed Anatomift ex¬ 
 traordinary to the Court of Lafiuta, 
 
 Such is the Ufe I am always de¬ 
 termin’d to make of this my Know¬ 
 ledge of the World and Mankind. 
 As I will not fuffer any upftart Pre¬ 
 tender, of what Profeflion loever, to 
 monopolize and vend his Ablurdities 
 within this my native Country, 
 without fuch Animadverfions as may 
 ferve to warn the publick againft 
 him: So, on the other fide, if he 
 happens to have any Merit which 
 would fliine and be diftinguilh’d in 
 other Regions of the Earth, I 
 
 fliall 
 
( 33 ) 
 
 fhall be ready to do Juftice in that 
 Point alfo, by letting him know in 
 what part of the World he may be 
 fure to find a proper Reward. 
 
 But I can’t conclude, without fe- 
 rioufly lamenting the great Detri¬ 
 ment like to accrue to our Nation 
 by the Stir which has been made a- 
 f bout this foul Impofture, both by 
 : the Actors and Examiners of it; and 
 e that as well in regard to the War- 
 s reners and Poulterers, (who com- 
 e plain that the Confumption of Rab- 
 \ bits, within this Metropolis, is be- 
 i come, by two thirds, lefs than it 
 i was formerly as in relation to 
 * thofe obfcene and indecent Images, 
 i which for more than thele nine Days 
 i laft paft, beyond all Example, have 
 fill d the Minds, and furnifh’d out 
 
 F 
 
 the 
 
1 
 
 ( ii) 
 
 the Converfation of People of all 
 Ranks, Ages and Conditions. And 
 whether Ideas of this Nature are fit 
 to be put into the Heads of rude 
 Boys, Boarding-fchool Girls, and 
 Old Maids, I leave every difcreet 
 and prudent Matron to judge. 
 
 finis. 
 
T 
 
 R E M A R IC S 
 
 O N 
 
 Ji fio) l Narrative of an Ex ¬ 
 traordinary Delivery of Rabbets , per¬ 
 form'd by Mr. John Howard., 
 Surgeon at Guilford, 
 
 As publiflVd 
 
 By Mr. St. A NT) R E, Anatomifl: to 
 His Majefty. 
 
 WITH 
 
 A proper Regard to his intended 
 RECANTATION. 
 
 i?)'T homas Brathwaite, Surgeon. 
 Si populus vult decipi decipiatur. 
 
 L O N T> O N: 
 
 Printed for N. Blandford at the 
 London-Gazette, Charing-Crofs. 1716. 
 
 (Price Six-pence.) 
 
 > 
 

To the Learned and Profound 
 
 Dr. MEAGRE. 
 
 SIR, 
 
 Refledt with PIca- 
 i’ure on ycur un¬ 
 wearied Endea¬ 
 vours to detect 
 the Impofture of 
 the Woman of 
 Godlimtm , and can - 
 not enough admire the Rhetorick 
 you wafted, and the Time and 
 Courtlhip you loft upon the pro¬ 
 fligate Mary Toft: Neither ought 
 your Condelcenfion to be forgot, if 
 ft be true,that you try VI to kits, tic¬ 
 kle and cajole her out of the ConfeC* 
 B 2 lion 
 
 _ 
 
‘DEDICATION. , 
 Ton {Tie afterwards made. 1 hefe 
 and other weighty Con {Derations 
 loon determined me to chooie a 
 Man ofc your known Penetration 
 and Sagacity lor my Patron. Nei¬ 
 ther did 1‘ regard the Perfuaiions 
 of fome of my Friends, who ad¬ 
 vis’d me to dedicate to the Soo- 
 terkin Doctor, or to the Sage Gref- 
 lliamite. And here 1 can’t help con¬ 
 gratulating with you on the Difco* 
 very of this wonderful Cheat, and 
 on the Succefs of your no lefs won¬ 
 derful Pill; and though fome Peo¬ 
 ple that are not Thoroughly con¬ 
 vinc’d of the Importance ol your 
 medicinal Merit, may, upon this 
 critical Occahon, call the Energy 
 and Efficacy of your Pill in Quefti- 
 on; yet for my Part I rejoyce with 
 you, to think what a fair Opportu¬ 
 nity you now have, of convincing 
 the World of the fpecifick Harmlefs- 
 nefs of the ‘Pillule, and of expatiating 
 upon the ixupendious Eifedts it boafTs 
 
‘DEVICATIO N. 
 
 f of: Nor fhall my Endeavours be want- 
 i ing, if requir’d, to do any Pills or Pac- 
 i kets of yours the Juftice they defer ve. 
 
 11 And notwithstanding it may feem to 
 5 fome prejudiced Perlbns to favour ot 
 i Quackery in a Licentiate of the Col¬ 
 li lege, to make a Noflrum of a com- 
 s moil mercurial Pill; yet it may not 
 n be impoffible to find out fome Ex- 
 j amples at lead in our Profeffion, to 
 | keejTyour Modefty in Countenance. 
 i upon that Head : 1 am forry to fay 
 in that I have my lelf met with an El- 
 fii der in Surgery, every whit as emi- 
 (o; nent in the venereal Practice as your 
 i lelf, though lels Earn’d, contending 
 i for the Merit of his furprizing Knack 
 m of making Wax^Candles; and I’m 
 ij lure you cannot value your lelf more 
 I upon being a Pedagogue and a Pili- 
 I maker, than he does upon his being 
 (ji a manual Operator and Candle-dip- 
 
 I P er *„ . 
 
 Neither do I think it any more 
 incontinent for a Doft.or to have been 
 
 (i 
 
 an 
 
u 
 
 2) ED 1C AT ION. 
 
 an Uidler of a School, than for a 
 Dancing-Mafter to be an Anatomift, 
 or a Surgeon to turn Wax-Chandler. 
 1 know you’ll excufe this DigrelTion. 
 when you confider ’tis meant in Be¬ 
 half of your Pill, and in Reverence 
 to your lingular Parts and peculiar 
 Endowments ; and therefore I lhall 
 not any longer chocque you with 
 the Praife either of your Pill or your 
 Per fan, but with fuitable Humility, 
 1 beg leave to iubfcribe my felf 
 
 X 'jur Conjf ant Admirer , 
 
 t. a 
 
 P RE- 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 I! 
 
 well known that 
 the Town has lately 
 been amufed with idle 
 Relations by the GuI- 
 
 it ——; liv ers, St. Andres and 
 Howards of the Age • and it ts as 
 cettam that tbefe Amufemcnts have 
 been earned on in their rchcclive 
 
 ■ C ff S d °f Sur & ms tCaptaim, Van- 
 ang-Majlm, Anatmift f, Men-mid - 
 wives, Warreners, Coney Catchers, 
 } and % dm ‘ flick to tell us that 
 
 27- Mcnof ,‘ heS,ze °5° 
 
 Ste th V^ c r^&Jflands 
 Kecrt 7 H r fes ’ ,hat 
 
 increments maybe reduced to theirpi- 
 
 mitive 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 mitive Ingredients, or at leaf way he 
 changed into V ORR A C £ 0 C7 5 
 Matter , and that Mary I oft of 
 Godliman has been delivered of Se¬ 
 venteen Rabbets j and that notvoith- 
 (tanding the Fraud is detected, an Ac¬ 
 count of the Delivery of the Eighteenth 
 'will be foon publijFd. IVhen I re- 
 
 jlett upon this flrange Gallimatias, I 
 am chagrin d to think that the valu¬ 
 able Arts of Surgery and Anatomy 
 muJI neceffarily be brought into Con¬ 
 tempt by fuch monftrous Relations. 
 Ibis Corif deration has induced me to 
 Icy open Jome of the grofs Impoftions, 
 as far as they relate to the Rrofejfion ; 
 and as fome of thefe Accounts are not 
 only falfe, but even bordering on Farce, 
 I am inclined to treat them in the 
 Manner I think they deferve. 
 
 « 
 
 _ 
 
 
Hatever may be the Fate of 
 the Author of the Narrative , 
 I think my felf oblig’d, for 
 
 ^ the Sake of the Truth, not only to de- 
 ted the Fads he has fo gravely averted, 
 but alfo to help him in his intended Re¬ 
 is cantation in the bed Manner lam able; 
 £■ and that nothing may be wanting on 
 a my Side, I lhall endeavour to point out 
 to him fome of the abfurd Paflages 
 4,1 of the Narrative , in the fame Or- 
 1 der and Light as they have occurr’d 
 ,ji to me; and that his Recantation may 
 be the more fmccrc and compleat, and 
 for Fear he lhou’d be too partial to 
 himfelf, (as Authors generally arc) I 
 have carefully avoided Flattery ; and on 
 the other Hand, have endeavoured to 
 “ give him my Remarks, in fuch a Man¬ 
 ner as may be mod ufefui to him in his 
 Delign of diferediting Mary Toft's Con- 
 
 B 
 
 feflion, 
 
 a 
 
( IO ) 
 
 fefTion, and of making his own Skill 
 and Innocence the more plainly appear. 
 And here I can’t help taking Notice, 
 that our Author, feeming to forefee the 
 Occafion there might be for a Recanta¬ 
 tion, and being confcious to himfelf of 
 the manifeft Abfurdity of his Relation 
 at {he very Time he wrote it, afliires 
 us in the very firfl Page, “ That Mr. 
 “ Howard^ his Colleague, intended 
 “ fhortly to publilh the whole Account, 
 “ and prove every Circumftance of 
 “ it, by fuch Evidences as will put 
 ’* this Matter out of all Poflibility of 
 “ doubt.” Happy had it been for St. 
 Andre and his Coadjutor Howard , if 
 they had not heard of the Depoftiom 
 from Surry , and thofe of the Porter at 
 the Bagnio and of their Patient Mary 
 Toft- “ But furely itcanrot ioubt- 
 “ cd, but that all Perfons that are noi 
 “ governed by Prejudice, in r avour of 
 “ the Author of the Narrative , or fome 
 *• vvorie Motive, will fufpend their Be- 
 “ lief of any Thing this Author hasal- 
 “ ready aflerted, or is like to afiert on 
 “ this or any other Subjedf, ’till Fads 
 “ come to their Knowledge by a more 
 “ certain Way than by fiich flying Re* 
 ‘‘ ports and abfurd Conjedures. ” 
 
( II ) 
 
 I chofe to make ufe of his own 
 Words to prevent Miftakes; and can’t 
 help taking Notice, with what Warmth 
 he lets out with the Panegyric of his 
 Brother Howard, and tells us of his 
 : known Probity, Character and Capa¬ 
 city; and adds farther, that he has 
 pra&isd Midwifery for above Thirty 
 Years. Now, furely, if Brother How- 
 ! ard has any Gratitude left, he will not 
 be behind hand with the Narrative Wri- 
 . ter in Complement, but muft at leaft 
 fay as much of his Brother-Warrencr’s 
 known Probity, Chara&cr, and Capa¬ 
 city, &c. el'pccially at this Time, when 
 i perhaps all that he can fay to that Pur- 
 pofe, will be little enough. 
 
 But to return. The Author of the 
 e Narrative goes on to confirm his Ac- 
 I counts by two Letters from his Brother 
 Howard, the firft dated the 6th of 
 i November ; the Subllance of which is, 
 “ That he had delivered the Woman of 
 I “ three more Rabbits, that the laft of 
 i <c them had leap’d in her Belly for the 
 s “ Space of eighteen Hours before it 
 j ** died, and that the Moment it was 
 [; “ taken away, another was perceiv’d 
 i to ftru ggie for Birth.” A lively In- 
 i Itance of the Probity of Howard, and 
 
 of 
 

 of the Readincfs of his AlTociate to be. 
 Jicvc him ! But we lhall foon fee how 
 thefe worthy Operators, like their Rab¬ 
 bets, jump'd together both in their Opi* 
 nions and Operations. But more of this 
 after quoting the lecond Letter, which 
 is as follows, viz. 
 
 S I R, 
 
 « CINCEX wrote to you, I have 
 “ ^ taken or deliver’d the poor Wo- 
 “ man of three more Rabbets, all three 
 “ half grown, one of them a dunn Rab- 
 “ bet; the la ft leap’d twenty three Hours 
 in the Uterus before it dy’d. As loon 
 “ as the eleventh Rabbet was taken a* 
 way, up leap’d the twelfth Rabbet, 
 *« which is now leaping. If you have 
 any curious Perfon that is pleafed to 
 “ come Poll, may fee another leap in 
 “ her Uterus , and lhall take it from hej 
 “ if he pieafes; which will be a grett 
 “ $atisfa<ftion to the Curious. If Ihe had 
 “ been with Child, Ihe has but ten Days 
 tc more to go, lo I do not know hoW 
 “ many Rabbets may be behind. I have 
 cC brought the Woman to Guilford foe 
 “ better Convenience. 
 
 I am, SIR , 
 
 Tour humble Servant, 
 
 John Howard, 
 
 —- 
 
 — 
 
( l 3 ) 
 
 Upon the Credit of thefe two inge¬ 
 nious Letters, that appear to have nei¬ 
 ther Senfe nor Englijh in them, and that 
 carry fufpicious Marks almoft in every 
 Line, our celebrated^W^/if hyes down 
 to his Brother Howard at Guilford ; and 
 to palliate the Matter, prevails on a 
 worthy Gentleman to bear him Com¬ 
 pany; and there finds the Coney-breed¬ 
 er fas he fays) adually in Labour of 
 the Fifteenth Rabbet ; and after due 
 Examination and patient Waiting for 
 Labour-pains, he tells us c ' he DELIVE¬ 
 RED her of the entire Trunk, ftrippd 
 of its Skin, of a Rabbet of about Four 
 Months Growth, in which the Heart 
 and Lungs were contained, with the 
 ^Diaphragm^twiytt" He tells us further, 
 of his cutting off a Piece of them, and 
 of his his trying of them in Water. A 
 fine Opportunity of fhewing his Pro¬ 
 bity if he had been fo difpofed ! And 
 then he goes on to fay, that the Lungs 
 feem’d but juft fpecifically lighter than 
 Water, and that upon preffing them to 
 the Bottom they rofe again, but very 
 flowly. 
 
 Now it is plain to the Experience of 
 ^very Body converfant in thefe Enqui¬ 
 
 res, 
 
yj 
 
 ( H ) 
 
 rics, that the Lungs of all Foetus Ani¬ 
 mals that have not breathed fink in 
 Water; and that if ever an Animal has 
 breath’d, tho’ never fo fmall an Inftant, 
 their Lungs as conllantly fwim, and 
 are as light or lighter than Cork: 
 Whereas our Anatomift is with much 
 ado brought to own that thefe Lungs 
 were lighter than Water, and that 
 they rofe from the Buttom but with 
 Difficulty. A plain Proof that thefe 
 Lungs belong’d not to a Foetus that 
 died before the Birth, but to one that 
 had breath’d ; and of our Author’s A- 
 verfion to own it; and fure if he had 
 not a Defign to glofs over this Matter, 
 he would not have infinuated that thefe 
 Lungs differ’d from the Lungs of Rab¬ 
 bets that had liv’d and breath’d fome 
 time. 
 
 The next Thing he mentions, is the 
 Largenefs of the Heart, and that the 
 Foramen Ovale was entirely open. This 
 puts me in Mind of the Parts of the 
 Rabbets that I rook out of the Opera¬ 
 tor’s Coney-Basket at the Bagnio , where 
 I found a Hole forced thro’ the Verge 
 of the Foramen Ovale in two of the 
 mangled Trunks that, to ufe his Phrafe, 
 he exhibited at the Bagnio > to confirm 
 
 the 
 
( ) 
 
 the Truth of the extraordinary Delive¬ 
 ry, even at the very Time the Dctc- 
 dion of the Fraud was depending: A 
 fingular In fiance both of his Probity 
 ^ and Modefty! 
 
 He then goes on to fhew his Skill in 
 Comparative Anatomy; and aflerts, that 
 “ thefe Lungs were remarkably fmallcr 
 i “ and of a much darker Colour than 
 “ commonly the Lungs of fuch Rab- 
 “ bets which have breath’d for fome 
 “ Time. In order to explain thefe 
 Difficulties in his Recantation, I would 
 advife him to own fairly that he is ut¬ 
 terly ignorant of the Size of Rabbets 
 Lungs, or that he knew very well that 
 i thefe were Parts of natural Rabbets that 
 
 i had lived and breath’d j but that ha 
 
 thought fit to colour the Cheat, and to 
 i reprefent them otherwife. 
 
 Next comes a material Aflertion in¬ 
 deed, viz. “ No Perfon but my felf 
 : “ touch'd her from the firfl Time that 
 
 i “ I had examin’d her, to the Time of 
 
 £ “ her being delivered by me ; ” and con- 
 
 \ fequently, we muft be apt to think 
 
 i that no Body could convey the Pieces 
 
 of Rabbets into the Vagina without his 
 Privity. This Paffagel think it beho¬ 
 ves our Author to clear up well in his 
 
 Re- 
 
 
'J 
 
 ( 16) 
 
 Recantation, Qtherwife the cenlorious 
 World will be apt to have Rccourfe to 
 the Depofitions of Mary Toft % to let 
 this Matter in its true Light. 
 
 But he is fomewhat beholden to his 
 Friend Sir Richard Maningham , who 
 tells us in the ioth Page of his Diary , 
 that St. Andre in Difcourfe with him 
 at Guilford , added, “ That had he not 
 “ actually delivered the Woman of 
 « Part of a Rabbet from the very Uterus 
 “ itfelf, the Circumftance of the Piece 
 « of Hog’s-Bladder would have indu- 
 “ ced him to fufpcdfc the Fraud as well 
 “ as Sir Richard himfelf. And again in 
 the 17 th Page of the faid Diary , Sir 
 Richard tells us, “ that St. Andre was 
 “ convinc’d that he he had taken a 
 “ Rabbet from the Uterus. 
 
 He then proceeds to a lecond Exa¬ 
 mination of the Woman, and fays, “ he 
 found that in the Courfe of the Fallo¬ 
 pian Tubes there were fome Inequali¬ 
 ties, but more fenfibly on the right 
 Side of her Belly.” If our Author had 
 been feeling the Cornua Uteri of a 
 pregnant Doe-Rabbit, or of lome other 
 parturient Animal, he might poflibly 
 have felt the Inequalities he mentions ; 
 but furc he is the firft Man that ever 
 
 felt 
 
C r 7 ) 
 
 fete Inequalities in the Fallopian Tube* 
 of a Woman thro’ the out fide of her Bel¬ 
 ly. He then favours us with his Conjec¬ 
 tures that the Rabbets were bred in thefe 
 fame Fallopian Tabes ; and his Zeal for 
 the Credibility of this Impollure, car¬ 
 ries him fo far as to account for the Wo¬ 
 man’s Agitations and for the preten¬ 
 ded Exclufion ; and to fliew us his 
 Skill in Midwifery, he tells us, there was* 
 no Blood nor Water iflued from the 
 Vagina ; a likely Sign of a Delivery! 
 when every old Woman knows there 
 never was a Delivery without both. 
 He then talks of Milk in one Brea'A, 
 j and yellowilh Serum in the other; 
 
 . and without flaying for the Remainder 
 ’ of the Rabbet, our Author leaves 
 the Woman to be delivered of the 
 lower Part of a Male-Rabbet by the 
 Nurfe; and in order to account tho- 
 rowly for thisabfurd Labour, he fays, he 
 
 ■ found it to tally with the Trunk, which 
 1 he had before extracted. He then tells us 
 
 ■ he found five or fix Pellets in the Rec- 
 " turn of this Animal, much of the fame 
 
 Colour and Confiftence as the common 
 Dung of a Rabbet ; the like he fays 
 was obferved of thofe Rabbets which 
 had come away before. ’Tis a little 
 C ftrange 
 
( 18 ) 
 
 Grange that thefe Rabbets fliould have 
 Pellets in their Dung if they had never 
 fed: What Pity it is, our Narrative - 
 Writer fliould have fo little Skill in A- 
 natomy, or fo bad a Memory, but on 
 he goes, and tells us notwit branding) 
 that there was a dirty-colour’d Mucus, 
 of the Nature of that conftantly found 
 in the Bowels of all Foetus Animals, be- 
 fides the Pellets of Dung, in which Mr. 
 Ahlers afterwards found fmall Bits of 
 Hay, Straw, and Corn; and then he 
 would have us believe, that he found a 
 Very Bender brittle white Body, which 
 in Shape was like very fmall Fifli Bones: 
 which I would earnestly advife our Au¬ 
 thor to pick very clean in his Recanta¬ 
 tion, that the Town may digeft his 
 Narrative the bettor. The next Para¬ 
 graph is too remarkable not to quote 
 entire. 
 
 “ Between fix and feven the fame E- 
 “ veiling we again vifited her; we had 
 “ not been there long, before die fell 
 
 into violent Labour-Pains, infomuch 
 “ that four or five Pcrfons cou’d hardly 
 “ confine her to an Arm-Chair: As loon 
 “ as the Violence of the firfl Pain was 
 <c fomewhat abated, I examined her as 
 “ before, and found the Vagina perfedly 
 
 “ clear; 
 
( 19 ) 
 
 “ dear; and the Orifice of the Uterus 
 “ fo far clofed, as not to admit of the 
 “ little Finger. I conftantly flood be- 
 “ fore her, nor did any Perfon whatfo- 
 “ ever touch her, during that Time. 
 “ After three or four very flrong Pains, 
 11 that lafted feveral Minutes, I deli- 
 “ vered her of the Skin of the above- 
 “ faid Rabbet, rolled and fqueezed up 
 “ like a Ball, without the leafl Moif- 
 “ ture or Blood about it; upon which 
 “ Ihe recover’d of her Pain. 
 
 “ From that Time I did not flir from 
 <c before her; nor did I withdraw my 
 “ Hand, but to deliver the Skin to a 
 “ Stander-by. 
 
 How our Author will reconcile his 
 not flirring from her, nor withdrawing 
 his Hand, but to deliver the Skin to a 
 Stander-by, with the Innocence he pro- 
 fefles in the Advertifemcnt of his in¬ 
 tended Recantation, is as difficult for 
 me to imagine, as not to believe what 
 Mary Toft has declared on that Head. 
 
 And now, to crown the Work, he a- 
 gain delivers her of the Head of a Rab¬ 
 bet with the Furr on ; alfo without 
 Blood or Moijlure ; nay, we don’t fo 
 much as hear of Butter or Pomatum to 
 C 2 faci- 
 
1 
 
 ( 2 ° ) 
 
 facilitate the Labour, and make the 
 Trick more glib. 
 
 . Now to recapitulate. We find St. An¬ 
 dre delivers her firft of the Trunk, then 
 the Nurfe delivers her of the lower Part 
 of a Male Rabbet; he in his Turn takes 
 out the Skin, rolled and fqueezed up 
 like a Ball, (a pretty Conveyance) and 
 laft of ail comes the Head with the Furr 
 on; wherein I afterwards obferv’d at 
 th<^ Bagnio, that the Cartilages that co¬ 
 ver the Proceflcs of the Occiput, were 
 notch’d with l'omelharp Inftrument;and 
 indeed to do the Operator Juftice, 
 (whoever he was) the Head feemed to 
 be dexteroufly feparated; and I very 
 much queftion, whether Mary Toft , e- 
 ven with Howard's Afiiftance, could 
 have done it fo well. 
 
 And here I can’t help declaring my 
 Aflonilhment, to think that our Ana- 
 romift could poflibly overlook the ma¬ 
 ny Incifions and Lacerations, both of 
 the Abdominal and other Mulcles of the 
 mangled Fragments that were pretend¬ 
 ed to be deliver’d from the Uterus of 
 Mary Tcft , which I obferv’d at the 
 Bagnio; and befides took Notice, 
 that the Feet of almoft all the Rabbets 
 were cut off to prevent fcratching: So 
 careful were fome of the Coney-catch- 
 
C 21 ) 
 
 ers of hurting the poor innocent Rabbet- 
 breeder. 
 
 Then to fliew us that he was aware 
 of more Rabbets, he tells us, “ That at 
 “ Parting he found thofe Lumps, which 
 “ Hill were in the fame Place as before 
 “ mentioned ; ’* Another Difficulty to 
 reconcile with his Innocence! And now 
 he comes to his ffiam Monftcr, which 
 he fays, did not appear to be a perfedt 
 Rabbet in all its Parts, three of the Feet 
 being like the Paws of a Cat, the Sto¬ 
 mach and Inteftines like thofe Parts 
 in the fame Animal, as alfo the Shape 
 “ and Figure of the Thorax, the Lungs 
 “ and Heart of which, he fays, were 
 “ entirely out of their natural Situa- 
 “ tion, and fqueezed cut between the 
 “ upper Ribs and Vertebra of the 
 w Neck, to which Part our Anatomift 
 “ fays they ftrongly grew and adhe- 
 “ red.” I luckily had an Opportu¬ 
 nity of detecting this particular Fraud 
 my felf * for whilfl our Operator was 
 ffiewing his Monfter lall Thurfday 
 Sennight in the Dining-room of the 
 Bagnio, in the Prefence of Dr. Stewart 
 and Mr. Geekie , jun. the Surgeon, and 
 Mr. Barnivelt the Apothecary, and 
 feveral other Gentlemen, I convinc’d 
 
 thofe 
 
( 22 ) 
 
 thofc Gentlemen, and I believe the 
 Monfter-monger himfelf, that there was 
 no Adhefion of the Heart and Lungs 
 to the Vertebra of the Neck and upper 
 Ribs, as he alTerted; but rather, that 
 fome ingenious Perfon, a Well-wiiher 
 to the Cheat, had reverfed the Heart 
 and Lungs, and Squeez’d them out of 
 their natural Cavity, in order to make 
 a pretended Monfter: and in the Pre- 
 fence of thefe Gentlemen I return’d the 
 Parts to their natural Situation before 
 our Author’s Face, tho' he was pleafed 
 to lay I could not. But Mr. St. Andre, 
 more loth to own the Truth than leem 
 to agree with his boafted Innocence, 
 would Hill cavil, and pretended that 
 the Blood-Vellels were not rightly dif- 
 pofed, ’till I Ihewed the contrary both 
 to himfelf and to the other Gentlemen, 
 juft after he had opened the Thorax, 
 by cutting thro' the Sternum: And up¬ 
 on asking for the Head of this Monfter, 
 he Ihewed me the Skull of a Rabbet,* 
 which, he faid, his Brother Howard 
 allured him belonged to the Trunk of 
 the Cat I had before examined. A pro¬ 
 per Evidence for that Purpofe! In order 
 to make this Impolturc appear the more 
 plaufible, I fuppofc fome of the ingeni- 
 
( 2 3 ) 
 
 ous Perfons that were at the Bottom of 
 the Cheat, had cut a Cat to Pieces in 
 like Manner with the Rabbets, and with¬ 
 al to make the Delivery appear the more 
 extraordinary. 
 
 After a tedious Detail of our Au¬ 
 thor’s DiiTetftions of the Rabbets, he 
 tells us, “ that tho’ thefe Animals were 
 * £ exactly like thofe that undergo the 
 “ Changes that happen to Adult Ani- 
 c< mals by Food and Air, yet they car- 
 “ ried with them the ftrongeft Marks 
 “ of Foetus’s, even by fuch Parts as 
 “ cannot exift in an Adult , and with- 
 “ out which a Foetus cannot poflibly be 
 “ fuppofed to live”; and yet he has be¬ 
 fore aflerted in Page the 17th and 18th 
 “ of his Narrative , “ That he could 
 “ not difcover in any of the Livers he 
 “ examined, the c Du£lus Venofus, nor 
 “ the Implantation of the Umbelical 
 t( Vein”; without which ‘Duffs its im- 
 portable for a Fatus to exift a Moment, 
 and indeed it is equally importable for 
 a Foetus to be form’d without them. 
 If our Author can make thefe Things 
 tally with Skill in Anatomy and Inno¬ 
 cence, for my Part I fhall be willing to 
 believe the Narrative without the help 
 of a Recantation to explain it. But to 
 
 go 
 
( H ) 
 
 go on with the Show, he farther en¬ 
 deavours to prove, in the ftrongeft 
 Terms poflible, that thefe Animals 
 Were of a particular Kind, and not bred 
 in a natural Way ; and I wilh, for the 
 Credit of thefe two clever Operators, 
 that they don’t prove to be of as parti, 
 cular a Kind thcmfelves when Mary 
 'Toft’s Confeffion appears. 
 
 There’s another PalTage I cannot pafs 
 by; where he fays, “ That there will 
 
 be no Doubt remaining of what he 
 “ has been before averting, even with 
 “ the leaft knowing in thefe Matters, 
 “ when thole Parts which are fubfer- 
 “ vient to the Circulation of the Blood 
 “ and Nourifhment, between an Adult 
 M Creature and its Foetus, are brought 
 “ away; which I am fully fatisfy’d, 
 “ fays he, mull Ihortly happen, or if re- 
 “ tained, be the Caule of this Woman’s 
 “ Death.” An ugly Conje&ure! If the 
 Fraud had not been deteded, who 
 knows but the Perfons that are laid to 
 have poilond the Anatomift, might 
 have bellow d a Cafi of their Office on 
 poor innocent Alary Toft ? 
 
 He then proceeds to inform us, that 
 all thefe Fads were verify d before his 
 Majefty on Saturday the 2.6th of No - 
 
(2 5 ) 
 
 member, by the Anatomical Demonftra- 
 tion of the Firft, Third, Fifth and 
 Ninth of thefe Animals ; which he lays 
 were compared with the Parts of two 
 natural Rabbets, the one of the Age of 
 four Months, and the other of five 
 Days, Dr. Steiger that and Dr. TeJJier 
 being prefent. How true this Verifica¬ 
 tion was, thofe gentlemen are bed able to 
 tell us, and I hope they’ll take a proper 
 Time to do it, to the Edification of his 
 Majedy’s Anatomid, and to the Ho¬ 
 nour of his Recantation. But here it 
 may not be improper to confult Mr. 
 Ahlers Tojlfcript , viz. 
 
 ** jyTCnfieur St. Andre having afler- 
 “ ted in his Narrative (pag. zo.) 
 
 that ah the Fads, as by him there re- 
 “ lated, were verified before his Majed- 
 “ ty on Saturday, Nov. 26. Dr. Steigcr- 
 th&l and Dr. Teijjier being prefent, I 
 was defired by Dr. Steigerthal, to in- 
 “ [ orm the Publick in his Name, that 
 (( he all along fufpeded this whole Af- 
 * c to be a Fraud and Impodure ; and 
 tt was f ar from thinking the compara- 
 t{ tjve Anatomy, which is there mcn- 
 - tmn d by Mr. St. Andre , any ways fa- 
 D “ tis- 
 
u 
 
 ( 26 ) 
 
 “ tisfadtory to vcrifie his Afiertions. 
 
 CYRIACUS AHLERS. 
 
 Dccemb. 8. 1716. 
 
 After this, our Author tells us, “ that 
 ■“ with all convenient Speed he will 
 “ publilh the Anatomy of thefe prxter- 
 “ natural Rabbets, with their Figures 
 “ taken from the Life, and compared 
 “ with the Parts of Rabbets of the fame 
 “ Growth, that the Differences before- 
 “ mentioned may be fully underftood.” 
 But I hope I have in fome Mcafure fa- 
 ved him the Trouble; and that the Pub- 
 lick will very readily excufe his delay¬ 
 ing thefe Prints, till his Account cf the 
 Delivery of the 18th Rabbet is ready to 
 come out. Our Author, Bill intent up¬ 
 on his Comparative Anatomy, and not 
 confidcring how he has embarraffed his 
 Recantation, goes on to acquaint us of 
 the Difference he found between two 
 common Rabbets, that he fays he dif¬ 
 fered before Mr. Molyneux y and thofe 
 he calls the preternatural ones. 
 
 In the Courfe of his Differ ions he af- 
 fures us, that he found the Lungs of a 
 common Rabbet 10 times bigger than 
 the fame Parcs of what he calls the prar- 
 ternatural one, tho’ he agrees they were 
 much of a Size, that is, about 4 Months 
 
 Growth. 
 
Growth. Quart whether this Difle&or ever 
 law a Foetus Rabbet four Months old ? He tells 
 us too, that his other common Rabbet was 
 barely fifteen Days old ; and yet he fays the 
 Lungs of it were at leaft 8 times bigger than 
 theLungsofhis preternatural one, (which was 
 about the Size of one four Months old.) Sure 
 our Author had his Microscopical Spectacles on 
 when he magnified his Obje&s at this prodi¬ 
 gious Rate in his natural Rabbets; and mult 
 have been at a vaft Diftance from his preter¬ 
 natural Conies, when they diminilh’d in a 
 Vicelfimal Proportion. But for my Parr, who 
 only view’d his preternatural Rabbets Lungs at 
 the Bcignio with my naked Eye , I could dilco- 
 ver nothing different in their Structure or Pro¬ 
 portion from natural Rabbets. How far our 
 Author’s Optics may have been disordered, by 
 Toifcn or too hard Study, he will do well to fee 
 forth in his promifed Apology. 
 
 Our Author goes on with his Microfcopical 
 Obfervations ; and in the Stomach and Intef- 
 tines, pretends to obferve, “ that the Diffe¬ 
 rence was fo notorioufy great from thofe he had 
 examined, that even in the Sucking Rabbet* 
 (he fays) the Stomach and Caecum were at 
 leaft three times larger than thofe Parts in the 
 preternatural ones.” Quaere whether our Au¬ 
 thor makes a proper Allowance for the Pellets 
 and Mucus he found in the Dung of his Foetus ? 
 
 I much wonder, that with all this Penetra¬ 
 tion and Sharp-fightednefs, he did not difeover 
 the Pieces of Hay, Straw, &c. that Mr. Ahlers 
 and other Gentlemen discovered in the Feces 
 of his Animals ; and it is as ftrange to me that 
 our Author’s Anatomy fhouldall turn one way, 
 D ^ and 
 
'O' 
 
 ( 2S ) 
 
 and ftill in favour of an Event, that he laid 
 himfelf he has at length with much ado found 
 out to be an Impofture. 
 
 And that our Anatomift could take his Rab¬ 
 bets for Foetus's, \vhen, as I hinted before, he 
 does not fo much as pretend to have difcover’d 
 in them either Umbclical Vein , or Arteries, or 
 Urathus, or Ductus Venofus , all which are abfo- 
 lutely neceflary to the very Being of a Foetus, is 
 beyond my Conception; and how he came 
 to take no notice of the longitudinal and ob¬ 
 lique Incilions in the abdominal Mufcles, and 
 the Marks of Violence I obferved in the torn 
 Parts of the Vifcera of the Abdomen, is equal¬ 
 ly amafing to me. But perhaps his next Book 
 will account for thefe and other furprifing 
 Phenomena, that appear’d in his monftrous 
 Foetus's . 
 
 We now come to our Author’s fecond Jour¬ 
 ney to Guilford on the nd of laft Month, 
 where, after a frivolous Account of Labour- 
 pains, &c. herells us, that his Patient, Mary 
 Toft, voided a piece of one of the Membranes 
 of the Placenta , rolled up like Parchment % and 
 that when it was extended, it meafured about 
 fix Inches over. In order to explain this Paf- 
 fage, and farther to illuftrate our Author’s 
 Probity and Innocence, I beg Leave to quote 
 Sir Richard Maningham's Diarj, Page the nth 
 and iztb. 
 
 ‘ 1 Mr. John Howard brought us, wrapt in 
 “ a Paper, a Piece of Membrane, which he 
 “ faid he had juft taken from the Woman, 
 “ and Ihew’d it us. I told him he ought to 
 “ havefent for me, that I might have taken 
 “ it; way myfelf, being come down for that 
 “ Purpoie: To which he reply’d, ’twas true, 
 
 “ but 
 
 
“ but he believ’d there was more to come, 
 “ which l Ihould take away before I return’d 
 “ to London, or to that effect. Upon examin- 
 “ ing the Membrane which he brought, it ap- 
 “ pear’d to me like a piece of Bladder, but he 
 “ infilled it was a part of the Chorion, and that 
 “ he had more of it at home.” And indeed 
 as Mr. Ho7vard had foretold, Sir Richard, up¬ 
 on a fecond Vifit to the Patient, found a Piece 
 of Membrane in a very particular Manner, 
 which he mentions Page the 13th. 
 
 “ I then touch’d her, and in the Vagina 
 “ perceiv’d with my Forefinger and Thumb 
 “ Fomewhat like a piece of Skin 3 but being 
 “ willing to know whether it come out of 
 “ the Uterus, 1 prefled my Finger on one fide 
 “ the laid piece of Skin in the Vagina, to find 
 “ if there was any part of that Skin or Mem- 
 “ brane yet remaining within the Uterus, buc 
 “ perceiving theO* Uteri clofe, as before, and 
 “ in the fame Form at I left it lad, I prefent- 
 “ ly took out what lay in the Vagina, and up- 
 “ on examining it, confefs I was much fur- 
 “ priz’d, it appearing to me fo like a Piece of 
 “ Flog’s Bladder, that I was not able to form 
 “ any other Judgment of it, as I then told Mr. 
 “ Howard , Mr. St Andre, Mr. Limborch and 
 “ all that were there prefent, alluring them 
 “ that it was my Opinion that Membrane ne- 
 “ ver came out of the Uterus. 
 
 “ The Woman, Mary Toft, from whom I 
 “ had taken it, feemed much concern’d at 
 “ what I laid, and cry’d. I ask’d her the 
 “ Reafon of her Crying, to which Ihegave me 
 “ no Anfwer; but the Women about her faid, 
 c ‘ it was becaufe Ihe luppofed I thought her a 
 f Cheat. 
 
 Upon 
 
( 3 ° ) 
 
 Upon this, Sir Richard, fiifpeftingthe Fraud, 
 fays, that he call’d for a Hog’s Bladder, which 
 it feems they had ready, and which added 
 to his Jealoufy ; he tells us too, that he com* 
 pared them, and that they were alike, and 
 had both the fame urinous Smell j he alfo 
 informs us, that Mr. John Howard and Mr. 
 St. Andre bid him have Patience, and he 
 ftiou’d be fatisfied ; but it feems, Mr. Sr. Andre 
 cou’d not then help owning, “ That had he 
 « not ailually delivered the Woman of Part 
 “ of a Rabbit from the Uterus itfelf, this Cir- 
 “ cumflance would alfo have induced him to 
 * lieve the whole a Fraud.” 
 
 But we fee,that notwithitandingthe Difcovery 
 of the folding in of the Pieceof Bladder inrothe 
 Vagina, our Anatomift never pretends tofufpett 
 the Cheat any more either at Guilford or London , 
 kill other People found it out for him ; but af¬ 
 ter this Affair of the Bladder, he publifhes his 
 Narratives and varnilTies over thatCiicumftance 
 in the beft Manner he is able, tho’ Sir Richard 
 told him at Guilford , “ that he was convinced, 
 “ the Piece of Bladder was artfully conveyed 
 
 into the Vagina. Then Sir Richard farther tells 
 “ us, that warm Difputes arofe amongft them, 
 “ and that Mr. St. Andre urged, that the De* 
 “ livery of the Bladder was not more fur* 
 “ ptifing than his taking a Rabbet from the 
 w Uterus j and our Narrative Writer after all 
 the Difputes at Guilford , w'ould have the 
 Piece of Bladder pafs for a Membrane of the 
 Vlacenta , without taking the lead Notice in 
 his Narrative of Sir Richard Manningham S 
 and Dr. H.mf s Sufpicions; but goes on far¬ 
 ther to tell us, “ that (he was a fecond Time 
 
 “ dif« 
 
( ) 
 
 <* disburdened of a Membrane in Structure, 
 
 « Shape, and Size like the former. 
 
 The Probity and Veracity of this Affair may 
 be a little more clear’d up by Dr. Hamp's Ad- 
 vertifement of the ijthlnflant. 
 
 Whereas Mr. St. Andre in his Narrative lately 
 published of an extraordinary Delivery of Rabbets , 
 has made ufe of my Name : I do hereby declare that 
 this has been done without my Knowledge and Ccn- 
 fent ; which I never fhould nave given in a Matter , 
 the Truth of which I did not believe. 
 
 London, Dec. 13, 1716. J. Hamp, M. D. 
 
 Our Author concludes his Narrative with 
 his hearty Endeavours to afperfe Mr. Ahlers, 
 who as well as Dr. Hamp and Sir Richard Man - 
 ningham (to his Knowledge,) had fufpedted the 
 Fraud even’at Guilford 3 and for fear Mr. Ablers 
 fliould be believ’d, in blafling the Credit of 
 the Impofture, or for fome other Reafon beft 
 known to himfelf, he publifhes the Affidavits 
 of the two Howards , of the Patient Mary Toft , 
 and of 2 other Women: But as that Gentleman 
 has fully anfwered them in his Preface and 
 Book, and has gone a good Way towards 
 explaining both Mr. Howard's and Mr. St. 
 Andre\ Conduct in this pretended Delivery, 
 and in the producing the Affidavits abovemen- 
 tion’d, he has left me the lefs to fay upon thefe 
 extraordin^ Proceedings. 
 
 I could have*enlarged more upon the Ana¬ 
 tomical Part of our Author’s Book ; but as L 
 found he'had taken Pains to mifreprefent mod 
 of the Parts "of his pretended preternatural 
 Rabbets, I mud have been under the Ntceiiiiy 
 of contradicting him almoft in every Para¬ 
 graph } therefore l only chofe to fingle out the 
 
 mod 
 
( 3 2 J 
 
 rnoft material Miftakes ; not doubting but fome 
 others of the Profelfion will contribute their 
 Affiltance to expofe our Author’s Ignorance in 
 Anatomy, or any other Motive that might 
 have induced him to reprefent Fadts in the 
 Manner he has done in the Narrative. 
 
 But after all, if the Author of the Narrative 
 fliould be really fincere in his intended Recan¬ 
 tation, (the coming out of which I own I 
 have fome Reafon to doubt) I allure him fo- 
 lemnly, that 1 will alfilt him, as Leifure may 
 permit, with my Advice gratis , that he may 
 perfedt the fame to the Satisfadlion of all Par¬ 
 ties. _ And in the mean time, I lhall have the 
 Charity to believe, that he is capable of fome 
 fort of Reformation; and lhall .be very loth to 
 think, like a prejudiced Perfon/,*that his De- 
 pofitiom Publifh’d in the Gazette of Feb . zj. 1714. 
 and in the Daily Pcjl of the 4th of March fol¬ 
 lowing, are of a Piece with his Extraordinary 
 Narrative of the DELIVERY of the Rabbets. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
 P. S. I believe it will not be amifs for Mr. 
 St. Andre to give his Reafons, in his next Book, 
 for refuling to admit Mr. Gifford, my felf, and 
 leveral of the Profelfion, to the pretended La- 
 hour of his Patient Mary Toft. 
 
 Advertifemenr on the Back of the Title Page 
 of Mr. St. Andre s Narrative, viz>. 
 
 The Account of the Delivery of the Eighteenth 
 Rabbet fall be published by way of Appendix to this 
 Account. Cf 
 
Sir R. Manningham’s 
 
 DIARY 
 
 Concerning 
 
 MARY TO FT, 
 
 The pretended 
 
 RABBET-BREEDER. 
 
 a 
 
 _ 
 
 / 
 
 v 
 
AN EXACT 
 
 DIARY 
 
 t Of what was obferv’d during a 
 
 Close Attendance 
 
 UPON 
 
 MARY TOFT\ 
 
 The pretended 
 
 Rabbet-Breed er 
 
 O F 
 
 Godaiming in Surrey , 
 
 From Monday Nov. 28, to Wednefday 
 ‘Dec. 7 following. 
 
 " Together with 
 
 An Account of her Confeflion of the Fra ud. 
 
 By Sir RICHARD MANNINGHAM Kt 
 
 and ° f * c ’° i d‘ 
 
 _The Second Edition. 
 
 L O N D 0 N, Printed for Fletcher Gyles 
 over-againft GraysAnn in Holhom™nd fold by 
 
 La!h° BE *j 26 thC ® X f 0r ^~ Arm in Warwick- 
 
 2 l 
 
an exact 
 
 DIARY 
 
 Of what was obferv’d du¬ 
 ring a clofe Attendance upon 
 MART TOFT\ the pretended 
 R A B B E T - B R E l D E R, &C. 
 
 glMgjN Sunday Evening the 17th 
 Oj of November , 1716. Mr. 
 
 St. Andre, Anatomift to His 
 Majejiy, having received an Exprds 
 from Mr. John Howard, Surgeon and 
 Man-Midwife in Gmlj'ord, giving him 
 an Account that another Rabbet was 
 
 then 
 
ff) 
 
 then leaping in Mary Toft } lent me 
 Notice of it by Letter about eleven 
 of the Clock the fame Night, defir¬ 
 ing withal that I would keep at home, 
 and he would call upon me fome time 
 that Night, in order to carry me with 
 him to Gail ford. 
 
 I fat up till two in the Morning 
 waiting for him, and then fent my 
 Servant to his Houfe, defiring to be 
 excufed, for I was then going to Bed,- 
 my Servant return'd before I was got 
 into Bed, and told me Mr. St. Andre 
 would be with me prefently, and de- 
 fired I would not go to Bed. 
 
 Accordingly, between three and 
 four in the Morning, He and Mr. 
 L imborch, a German Surgeon and 
 Man-Midwife, came to my Houfe ; 
 and Mr. tSV. Andre told me he had 
 been at Kenjington fince he wrote to 
 
 me, 
 
 
( 7 ) 
 
 me, and defired me to go immediate¬ 
 ly with him to Guilford } adding, that 
 ! it was his Majefty’s Pleafure that I 
 fhould go and fee this Godaiming Wo- 
 t man fo much talk’d of, and after a 
 i ftri< 5 t Examination to make my Report 
 it concerning her. 
 
 Immediately we fet out together for 
 I. Guilford about four in the Morning, 
 
 i and arrived there a little after twelve 
 ; at Noon : We flopp’d at Mr. How- 
 ;£ ard’s Houfe, who being out of Town 
 
 we went dire&ly over the way to the 
 Houfe where Mary Toft (the Woman * 
 
 ii faid to be delivered of feventeen 
 Rabbets) then lodged. 
 
 : I found her in Bed, and after afk- 
 
 1 in g her feveral Queftions in the pre¬ 
 fence of Mr. St. Andre , Mr. Limborch, 
 and feveral Women and Mid wives, I 
 proceeded to examine her Breafts, 
 
 wherein 
 
( 2 ) 
 
 wherein was a fmall Quantity of thin 
 Serous Matter like Milk ; I then felt 
 her Belly all over very carefully, 
 which was foft, and not much larger 
 than ordinary, and by no means 
 like a Woman with Child $ the Right 
 fide of her Belly, indeed, was fome- 
 what bigger than the Left, with a 
 Hardnefs a-crofs it, which when I 
 prefs’d, {he faid it gave her Pain. 
 
 I afterwards diligently fearch’d the 
 whole Vagina, and being well affured 
 at that time all was clear from Impo- 
 fture, I touch’d the Os Uteri , which 
 was dole and contracted in fuch man¬ 
 ner that it would not receive fo much 
 as the point of a Bodkin into it’s Ori¬ 
 fice ; the Neck of the Uterus was fome- 
 what long ,* I then prefs’d againft the 
 Uterus with my Fingers opened in fuch 
 a manner as to receive as much of 
 the Body of the Uterus into my Hand 
 
Cavity. 
 
 While I was thus examining I ap¬ 
 plied my other Hand at different times 
 to the feveral Parts of her Belly, where¬ 
 by it feem’d to me that there was Sub- 
 ftance, not only in the Cavity of the 
 Uterus , but alfo along the right fide 
 of the Belly, which I then judg’d to be 
 the Fallopptan Tube $ but feeling no 
 Motion all this while, I enquir’d of the 
 Women then prefent how long it was 
 fince the Rabbet leapt (as they term’d 
 it) and whether they were of Opinion 
 it was now dead to which they an- 
 fwer’d, the laft time it leapt was about 
 one in the Morning. 
 
 I left her for that time, and did not 
 vifit her again till about five in the 
 Afternoon, jointly with Mr. John 
 
 B 
 
 Howard 
 
( 10 ) 
 
 Howard her Surgeon, when I again 
 examin'd her in like manner as before, 
 and a iking Mr. John Howard , whe¬ 
 ther he then thought the Rabbet was 
 dead ? He anfwer’d, he could not ex¬ 
 actly tell,, but had lately obferv’d, if 
 hot Clothes were gpply'd, the Rabbet 
 (ifatiye) would leap again • upon which 
 I immediately ordered Clothes to be, 
 made very hot, and apply’d them my 
 felfto all her Belly, being very debrous 
 to feel that leaping Motion they fo 
 much talk'd of, Upon applying of 
 the nrft Cloth the Motion began > which 
 they called the leaping up of the Rab¬ 
 bet \ it was indeed a Motion like a hid¬ 
 den leaping of fometldng within the 
 right fide of her Belly, where l had 
 before felt that particular Hardnefs. 
 
 The Motions were various, foine- 
 times with very ftrpng Throws, crofs 
 
 the 
 
 
the Belly, efpecially on the right fide, 
 at other times with fudden Jerks and 
 Riiings, and tremulous Motions and 
 Pantings, like the? ftrong Pulfations of 
 the Heart,- and as I fat on the Bed in 
 Company with five or fix Women, it 
 would fometimes Brake us all very 
 s ftrongly : The whole appeared to me 
 very different from any convulfive 
 : or hyfterick Motion I had ever met 
 with before. 
 
 We then left the Woman, and Mr. 
 Howard parted from us • Mr. St. Andre , 
 Mr. Limborch , and myfelf went to the 
 White-Hart-inn; but within lefs than 
 an hour Mr. "John Howard brought us, 
 Wrapt in a Paper, a piece of Membrane, 
 which he faid he had juft taken from 
 the Woman, and Ihew’d it us. I told 
 him he ought to have fent for me, that 
 | I might have taken it away myfelf. 
 
( »2 ) 
 
 being come down for that Purpofe: 
 To which he reply’d, Twas true, hut he 
 believ’d there was more to come, which 
 I fhould take away before I return’d to 
 London , or to that effect Upon exa¬ 
 mining the Membrane which he 
 brought, it appear’d to me like a piece 
 of Bladder, but he inhfted it was a 
 part of the Chorton ., and that he had 
 mor.e of it at home: Upon which I 
 walked with him to his Houfe to fee 
 the Rabbets and Membranes which he 
 faid he had taken from the Woman 
 and preferved in Spirits of Wine. 
 
 Mr. John Howard a ik’d me to go 
 with him and fee one of his Patients 
 who was very ill ; adding, he believ’d 
 it would be lome time before anymore 
 Membranes would come; and having 
 left Orders to be fent for fo foon as 
 the Woman’s Pains came on, we forth- 
 
 with 
 
 
\ 7 
 
 ( 13 ) 
 
 with went thither, and from thence to 
 Mr. Cajlk s at the Priory , where we 
 met Mr. Thomas Howard , his Brother, 
 and feveral Gentlemen of the Neigh¬ 
 bourhood. 
 
 About eight in the Evening a Mef* 
 fenger came to us from the Woman 
 and told us {he was in Pain: We went 
 immediately, and I found her fitting in 
 a great Chair by the Fire-fide ,• I afk’d 
 her if (he was then in Pain, (he anfwer’d, 
 no, but that {he had fome {harp Pains 
 : juft before I came in: I then touch’d 
 her, and in the Vagina perceiv’d with 
 o my Forefinger and Thumb fomewhat 
 i like a piece of Skin ; but being willing 
 i« to know whether it came out of the 
 i; Uterus , 1 pafted my Finger on one fide 
 j the faid piece of Skin in the Vagina to 
 find if there was any part of that Skin 
 c or Membrane yet remaining within the 
 i ! ' Uterus y 
 
( *4 ) 
 
 Uterus $ but perceiving the Os Uteri 
 clo/e, as before, and in the fame Form 
 as I left itlaft, I prelently took out what 
 lay in the/ 7 agtna y and upon examining 
 it, confels I was much furpriz’d, it ap¬ 
 pearing to me fo like a piece of Hog’s 
 Bladder, that I was not able to form 
 any other Judgment of it, as I then 
 told Mr. Howard , Mr. St. Andre , Mr. 
 Lamborch , and all that were there pre¬ 
 lent, alluring them that it was my 0- 
 pinion that Membrane never came out 
 of the Uterus. 
 
 The Woman, Mary Toft y from whom 
 I had taken it, feemedmuch concern’d 
 at what I faid, and cry’d. I alk’d her 
 the Realon of her crying, to which llie 
 gave me no Anfwer, but the Women 
 about her laid, it was becaule Ihe lup- 
 pofed I thought her a Cheat. 
 
 fliuJIV/ ; TX? 3fi 
 
 
 I afked 
 
\Z7 
 
 . ! alked for a Hog's Bladder, and 
 they prelently- bronght one frelh blown 
 up, which it feems they had in the 
 j, Houle : T his added to my Jealbufy. 
 I Then I compared the Membrane which 
 d to °k from rhe\V oman with the Hog's 
 , Bladder, and could perceive no DhP* 
 Terence but in theThicknefs, in which 
 the Bladder fomething exceeded the 
 Membrane j they had both the fame 
 _ llrong urinous Smell peculiar to a Hog's 
 Bladder - I ftill infilled I Ihould not 
 fatisfied as to that Affair, unlels I 
 ‘ received out of the Uterus itfelf a piece 
 xf ^ lembr ane of the fame kind with 
 
 J ,3at 1 Bad already taken from the Fa- 
 
 %ma\ : , v . .; . 
 
 [{1 : ^ r - J°hn Howard and Mr, St. An- 
 dre bid me have a little Patience and 
 1 Ihould foon be folly latisfied. I 
 dill urg'd the Similitude of the Mem¬ 
 brane 
 
 n 
 
( 16 ) 
 
 brane to a Hog’s Bladder, requiring 
 them to tell me what they them* 
 (elyes thought it did moft relemble? 
 Both of them agreed, nothing 
 look’d more like a Hog’s Bladder 
 than it did ; and Mr. St. Andre 
 added, that had he not actually de¬ 
 liver’d the Woman of part of a Rab¬ 
 bet from the very Uterus itfelf, this 
 Circumftance would alfo induce him 
 to believe the whole a Fraud. 
 
 The lame Evening Mary Toft had 
 (everal Pains like Labour-pains while 
 I (at before her, which I believe was 
 full three Hours, and I was all that 
 time in expectation of receiving 
 (omething from her Uterus the Pains 
 were fometimes very prefling, and the 
 Os Uteri feem’d to prepare for open¬ 
 ing, but they went off again fuddenly. 
 
 When 
 
 3 
 

 ( 17 ) 
 
 F When we return’d from the Woman 
 to the White Hart , I told them again, 
 1 that the more I considered the thing, 
 i the more ftrongly I was convinced, 
 i that the Membrane ,1 took from the 
 1 Woman had never been in the Uterus, 
 I but was really a piece of Hog/’s Blad- 
 Ji der artfully conveyed into the /**- 
 l( gma. 
 
 8 Upon this, very warm Difputes a- 
 rofe amongft us, and Mr. St. Andre 
 [i- urged it was not more furprifing, 
 
 * - than that Rabbets Should come from 
 re her Uterus • adding, that he was con¬ 
 i ’ 1 vinced of that Truth by examining 
 
 * ^ le R abbet he had taken from her U- 
 i f ' term i wh Rh at the fame time had 
 
 * f h e exa & external Appearance of A- 
 [i nimals, like fuch Creatures as mult 
 i inevitably undergo the Changes that 
 
 happen to adult Animals by Food and 
 1 U Air • 
 
( ) 
 
 Air ; and that they carried within 
 them the ftrongeft Marks of boctuss y 
 even by fuch Parts as cannot exift in 
 an Adult, and without which a Foetus 
 cannot poftibly be hippos’d to live, or 
 to that effed. This he thought prov’d, [ 
 in the ftrongeft Terms poflible, that 
 thefe Animals were of a particular 
 kind, and not bred in a natural way, 
 faying, Why therefore might not this 
 Membrane which looks like a Hog’s 
 Bladder, come alfo out of the Uterus ? 
 from whence he verily believed that it 
 did, and that it might be part of the 
 Chorion y to which Mr. Howard and 
 Mr. Lrmborch aftented. 
 
 After this Difpute, and at their joint 
 Defire, I determin’d to make no pub- 
 lick Mention of this Affair till I had 
 feen the Event of the whole Tranf- 
 adion, or had frefh Reafon to fufpeft 
 
 a Fraud, 
 
 
V' 
 
 ( *s> ) 
 
 ij a Fraud, left by fuch an Alarm I 
 f fhould rather cbftrud: than forward 
 the finding out the Truth: I then 
 jj mark’d the Membrane which I took 
 from the Vagina , by cutting a fmall 
 ri part of it, which I brought with me to 
 | London. 
 
 Tuefday the 29th, we brought 
 j. Mary Toft to London with us, and 
 lodg’d her at Mr. Lacy’s Bagnio in 
 Letcefter Fields: I fat up with her all 
 that Night $ (lie often had the Mo¬ 
 tion on the Right fide of her Belly, 
 and fometimes very ftrongly. 
 
 Wednefday the 30th, the Motion 
 was more faint, and file pafs’d the 
 Night tolerably well. Some time that 
 Day I told Dr. Douglafs what I had 
 l. obferv’d at Guilford , and took out of 
 n my Pocket-Book the piece of Mem¬ 
 brane which I called a piece of Hog’s 
 
 C 2 Bladder 
 
( 20 ) 
 
 Bladder, and flicw’d it him, and afk’d . & 
 his Opinion; he faid it look’d like a •' j 
 piece of Hog’s Bladder, and added, 
 Surely this muft be a Cheat, or to that 
 effed: T he fame Day I told the Story '• $ 
 of the Hog’s Bladder to his Grace the r 
 Duke of Richmond , Duke of Montague , ' [ 
 Lord Baltimore , and Mr. Molyneux> [ 
 but did not declare it publickly for the 
 Reafons I have given, 
 i Thurfday the ill Inftant, about ten 
 •in the Morning, the Motion was very I 
 languid, and having intermitted for a ; 
 while, fhe was feiz’d with Pains like 
 thole of Labour: 1 then prepared, as 
 before at Guilford \ to deliver her,* and 
 having diligently learch’d th zFagina, I 
 found it clear, and received a Pain or 
 • two, which were flrong and exadly 
 like Labour-Pains : Upon this I defired 
 Dj. Douglafs , who was then prefent, 
 
 1 that 
 

 V T 
 
 ( 21 ) 
 
 that he would pleale likewile to exa- 
 6 mine her, and openly declare his Opi¬ 
 nion, which he did,and in the hearingof 
 feveral Perfonsof Diftin<5tion, profefs’d 
 that he found the Vagina clear, and 
 was of Opinion the Pains were of the 
 f fame Nature with Labour-Pains. I 
 ; then took my Place again, and re¬ 
 ceived more Pains of the like Nature, 
 and perceiv’d the Os Uteri to Ipread a 
 11 little and grow fofter, her Face alfo 
 flnlh’d and- her Pulfe was rais’d, as it 
 : always was whenever Ihe had thole 
 1 Pains upon her. 
 
 After fome time the Motion on the 
 i tight fide of her Belly, which they 
 i call’d the leaping up of the Rabbet, 
 m begun again, and thole Pains like La¬ 
 id hour-Pains went fuddenly off; her Pulfe 
 is foon became calm as before, and the 
 t fiulhiog of her Face difappeared * Hie 
 i pals’d 
 
( 22 ) 
 
 pals’d the remainder of the Day in- fc 
 differently well, having for themolHii 
 part the Motion on the right fide of her t 
 Belly, which I never obferv’d had any ' 
 Influence on her Pulfe; her Diet was i 
 Beef, Rabbet, Red-Herring, and fuch * 
 like: That Night (he flept very 5 
 well. 
 
 Frida y the 2d In flan t, fhe had the 
 Motion the greateft part of the Day, 
 towards Evening it increafed extream- i 
 ly, infomuch that fhe fell into violent i 
 Convulfions, which I never before ob- 1 
 ferv’d in her, with frequent Contrac¬ 
 tions of her Fingers, rolling of her 
 Eyes, and great Rifings in her Sto¬ 
 mach and Belly: During the Fit fhe 
 would often make a whining Noife, 
 and at Intervals be more than ordinary 
 faint. She continued in her Fit near 
 two Hours; for fome Minutes I could 
 
 fcarcely 
 
( 23 ) 
 
 fcarcely perceive file had any Pulfej 
 i when fhe came out of her Fit, die 
 
 I perceived herfelf very weak for fome 
 li time, and when I afk’d if fhe remem- 
 :ti bred {he had been in a Fit, file an- 
 
 II fwer’d, No j file refted well that 
 i Night. 
 
 On Saturday the 3d in the Morn- 
 il ing fhe was brifk, and all that Day 
 ;! had the Motion by Intervals ; towards 
 E Evening file had another Convulhoa 
 a Fit, though not fo violent as the for- 
 1 mer j this Night fhe was very refflefs, 
 1 and fometimes convulfed, had a Dif- 
 l ficulty in making Water, and the 
 , Motion in her Belly was very little, 
 r On Sunday the 4th Inftant, about 
 j Eleven of the Clock in the Morning, 
 Dr. Douglafs and my felf did carefully 
 . examine her Belly, when we percei¬ 
 ved a Swelling a little above the Os 
 
 Pubis 
 
( 2 + ) 
 
 Pubis, fuch as we had never felt there 
 before, it was long, and, as we appre- ■ ' 
 bended in the Cavity of the Uterus , i; 
 which we obferv’d had little or no 
 Motion, this we could not account 
 for ; we each of us examined the 
 Vagina , and found it clear as before, 1 
 the Os Uteri loft and fpread, as on c 
 Thurfday laft, but fomething more re¬ 
 lax’d. 
 
 About Three in the Afternoon, the 
 Pains, like Labour Pains, came on a- 
 gain: I touch’d her as before, and 
 Dr. Douglafs , Dr. Mowbray , Mr. 
 L,imborch the German Surgeon and 
 Man-Midwife, who were then pre- 
 fent, did the fame,- and we agreed, 
 that the Nature of the Pains were fuch, 
 and lo violent, as we apprehended 
 fomething would loon iffue from the 
 Uterusi and this we declared in the 
 
 / hearing 
 
C 25 ) 
 
 | hearing of many Perfons of Diftinc- 
 tion, who were then prefont: And 
 j, well remember, thev Room being very 
 j full, I defired if there was any Perfon 
 prefent willing to examine her, that 
 j, they would do it then while her Pains 
 4 were upon her. Accordingly, fove- 
 js ral Perfons did examine her, and de- 
 ,j dared to the fame Purpofe: After ha¬ 
 ving received feveral Pains, they, to¬ 
 gether with the other Symptoms of 
 c approaching Labour, vanifhed on the 
 fudden, as formerly. 
 
 In the Evening, ‘Thomas Howatd y 
 Porter to Mr. Lacy’s Bagnio , made 
 an Information againft Mary Toft , 
 
 , before Sir Thomas Clarges , Bart, one 
 ofHisMajefty’s Juftices of Peace, con¬ 
 cerning a Rabbet ftie had clandeftine- 
 ly procured by his Afliftance$ upon 
 which Ihe was taken into Cuftody, and 
 
 D 
 
 ft r idly 
 
( 25 ) 
 
 ftridtly examined by Sir Thomas : She li 
 very obftinately denied all the Porter f 
 had fworn j but her Sifter, who nurfs’d j 
 her, being examined to the faid Fad 1 s 
 upon Oath, acknowledged the pro- In 
 curing the Rabbet in a ckndeftinc 
 manner $ but that it was not defigned i 
 for the Ufe we fufpedted, but for eat¬ 
 ing only. i 
 
 Soon after Mary Toft confefs’d {he 
 had procured the Rabbet, according £ 
 to the Porter’s Deposition, but that it f 
 was her Intention to eat it, ftie having . 
 lotted for it, and moft obftinately per- i 
 lifted that file was ftill big with a 
 Rabbet. i 
 
 The fame Evening I examined her 
 again, and her Uterus appear’d to me 
 to contain fomething of Subftance in 
 it; whereupon I earneftly prelsd Sir 
 Tloomas Clarges that fhe might not be 
 
 fent 
 

 ( 27) 
 
 Tent to Prifon that Night, being ftjll 
 1 apprehenfive there might fomething 
 come from her Uterus in a little time,- 
 and, as. th-e Fraud was not fully de- 
 f te&ed, I judg’d it might prove of ve- 
 ry ill Confequence to remove her till 
 the wliole was found out. 
 
 On Monday the jth, I gave my 
 Opinion to Sir ‘Thomas , concerning 
 ' Mary Toft } and, left he ftiould com¬ 
 mit her to Prifon, I fpoke to feveral 
 : Perfons of Diftin&ion, and the next Day 
 wrote to the Honourable Mr. Molyneux 
 to aflift me in that Affair, well know- 
 ( ing how induftrious they had always- 
 been, in endeavouring to find out this 
 a fuppofed Fraud ; for I believ’d a fud- 
 1 den Commitment of her to Prifon, 
 
 10; before the Cheat did manifeftly ap- 
 s pear, would be a means of preventing 
 1 D 2 a Dif- 
 
 Ch 
 
I 
 
 ( 28) 
 
 a Difcovery: The Copy of my faid 
 Letter is as follows. 
 
 To the Hon. Mr. Molyneux. 
 
 
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 Dear Sir, 
 
 I Have, fince I left you, very 
 “ maturely confidered what you 
 faid this Morning, and the Con¬ 
 tents of the Letter frank’d by 
 Lord Onflow , which you alfo {hew¬ 
 ed us, importing a Difcovery of a 
 Fraud in the Affair in the Coun¬ 
 try j and adding, that , to what 
 happen’d to my felf at Guildford, 
 in relation to my taking away from 
 the Vagina of Mary Toft the Godal- 
 mmg Woman, what I call the Piece 
 of Hog’s Bladder, and the Depofi- 
 tion about the Rabbet laft Sunday 
 Night, which I heard Thomas 
 
 u Howard, 
 
r 2 9 ) 
 
 t “ Howard , the Porter of Lacy's 
 “ Bagnio, make before Sir Thomas 
 “ Clarges , in the Prefence of feveral 
 “ Perforis of Quality, and the Unna- 
 “ turalnefs of the Produdtion, fup- 
 “ pofed to have been ; all this, I fay, 
 f <£ laid together, is to me fuch Evi- 
 2 “ dence of Roguery , as makes me 
 
 C “ ftrongly believe the whole to be a 
 “ Fraud. Therefore, that our En- 
 ii " deavours fully to detedt the Cheat 
 “ may prove moft effectual, and the 
 (■ <c unnatural Impofture may ipoft clear- 
 t i “ ly appear to the Publick, I think 
 | “ Mary Toft fhould by no means be 
 
 <c lent to Prifon, till the Truth comes 
 “ out; but that flae fhould rather be 
 t \ “ kept, and moft ftridtly watched in 
 “ fome private Houfe, where all Per- 
 fi “ fons, thofe of the Faculty efpecial- 
 I i( ly, may have free and convenient 
 
 “ Accefs 
 
( 30 ) 
 
 u Accefs to her, which a Prifon will 
 “ not To well afford, till the Matter be j 
 <c as plainly and fully detected as 
 <c poflible j for which Purpole, I will 
 <c wait upon Sir Thomas Claries to jj 
 cc take Meafures accordingly j and, if , 
 “ you will give Leave, will call on t 
 u you as I come from him, to ac- 
 u quaint you with our Refolutions. 
 
 I am, 
 
 SIR, 
 
 * * 
 
 Dec. 6, Tour mofi humble Servant , 
 
 I 726. 
 
 R. Manningham. 
 
 After 
 
( 3i ) 
 
 After fome Difficulty, I prevailed 
 [ with Sir Thomas Clarges to let her re¬ 
 main in the Cuftody of the High Con¬ 
 fine oT fVeflmmfter, at Mr. Lacy’s 
 1 Bagnio, till the Cheat Ihould be found 
 out, or at leaft for a few Days longer ; 
 to which he agreed. 
 
 !* ° n Tuefday the 6 th, Sir Thomas 
 thieaten d her leverely, and began to 
 appear the molt proper Phyfician in 
 her Cafe, and his Remedies took 
 Place, and feem’d to promile a perfeft 
 Cure,* for we heard no more of her 
 former Labour-like Pains. 
 
 I urged her very much to confels 
 the Truth • and told her, I believ’d 
 
 er t0 an Impoftor, and thatlhe 
 li was differently form’d from other Wo¬ 
 men, having fome peculiar way of 
 conveying Pieces of Rabbets into her 
 terns, and of impofing upon the 
 
 * World 
 
 n 
 
C 32 ) 
 
 World by her Motions and Pains, and 
 therefore I refolved to try a very 
 painful Experiment upon her, and was 
 accordingly prepared for thafPurpofe; 
 whereas if (he would ingenuoufly con- 
 fefs the whole Truth, 1 would fpeak 
 to feveral of the Nobility in her Be- ; 
 half, fome of whom then prefent pro¬ 
 ofed her their good Offices on the 
 
 like Condition. 
 
 I allured her alfo there was no Time 
 left for Delay ; and if fhe would not 
 confefs, I fliould immediately proceed 
 
 to the Operation. 
 
 Thefe Threats made great Imprel* 
 fions upon her, and being withal in a 
 moft particular manner exhorted by 
 his Grace the Duke of Montague , 
 Lord Baltimore , Dr. Douglafs , and 
 myfelf, to make a free and open Con 
 
 feffion, before it Ihouid be done by 
 
 any 
 
t ( 33 ) 
 
 k any other Perfon in the Country, and 
 li avoid fo terrible an Operation,• die at 
 f laft begg’d very heartily to be let alone* 
 ft till the next Morning, and faid if {he 
 f[( did not then confefs, I might proceed 
 R: as I pleafed. 
 
 Accordingly on fVednefday Decem¬ 
 ber 7, in the Morning, in the Prefence 
 
 mention- 
 ihe began 
 and in her 
 Confeflion (he own’d, That upon her 
 mifcarrying {he was leiz’d with violent 
 1( j Floodings, and the Womb was then 
 ip as die thought open as if {he had been 
 £ juft deliver’d of a full-grown Child, 
 {he did verily believe one of her wicked 
 t ( Accomplices did then convey into her 
 $ Womb part of the Monfter (as {he 
 
 E calls 
 
 of the two Noblemen before 
 
 ed, Dr. Douglafs and my 
 her Confeflion of the Fraud ,* ; 
 
( 3+ ) 
 
 calls it) being the Claws and Body of 
 a Cat, and the Head of a Rabbet this 
 put her to much Pain: After that 
 time jhe believed nothing was ever put 
 into her Womb, but into the Paltage 
 
 x 
 
 only, by the Advice of a Woman Ac¬ 
 complice whom (he has not yet nam’d, 
 and who told her fhe had now no 
 Occalion to work for her Living as 
 formerly, for Ihe would put her into 
 a Way of getting a very good Liveli¬ 
 hood, and promifed continually to fup- 
 ply her with Rabbets, and (hould there¬ 
 fore cxpe< 5 » part of the Gain, or to that 
 effcd. Mary Toft alked what way that 
 was. The Woman told her fhe muft 
 put up her Body (omany pieces of Rab¬ 
 bets as would make up the Number of 
 Rabbets which a Doe Rabbet ufually 
 
 kindles 
 
( 35 J 
 
 kindles at one time, other wile fhe 
 
 . • 
 
 : would be fufpe&ed. Mary Toft aiked 
 how many that was ,• the Woman told 
 c her, fometimes thirteen, 
 
 3 : From that time Mary Toft did of- 
 
 • ten, by the Afliftance of that Woman, 
 »; convey Parts of Rabbets into her Bo- 
 
 I dy, ’till at lad /he could do it by her 
 
 II felf, as /he had an Opportunity, and 
 i! that /he did continue /o to do. 
 
 Now, by the conftant Irritation of 
 jk thofe extraneous Bodies, thus artfully 
 convey’d into her Vagina, the whole 
 [1; Uterus fu/Fer’d much, and became lar- 
 os ger in Bulk than it ought to be in its 
 natural State; and the Bones, and o- 
 £ ther Parts of thofe Rabbets, fo con¬ 
 vey d into the Vigma , did often offend 
 fl ^e Neck of the Uterus , which, to- 
 
 Ii 2 gether 
 
f 3 6 ) 
 
 gether with artful Management of her 
 felf, did occafion thole violent bear¬ 
 ing-down Pains, which came on by 
 Intervals, and very exactly counter¬ 
 feited the true Labour-Pains. The : 
 Motions of her Belly were partly Ar¬ 
 tifice, and partly real Convulfions; 
 for I have often obferv’d fome of the 
 Motions in her founded Sleep, and 
 even fince (he has confefs’d the Fraud, 
 part of her Motions being involun¬ 
 tary. 
 
 Mary Toft owned there was no¬ 
 thing in her Paflage, when I examined 
 her, only that time when I took the 
 Piece of Bladder from her, which file 
 had put into her Body a little before 
 I came to her, on Monday the 28th 
 of November , 172 6 , about Eight in 
 
 the 
 

 C 37 ) 
 
 ft the Evening ; and ever fince that 
 k Time Ihe was afraid to put any thing 
 it into her Body, becaufe I had ofte» 
 c told her, if I found twenty Rabbets 
 ' at times in her Body, it would go 
 fc for nothing with me; for I fhould 
 | never be convinced, unlefs I took 
 of fome Parts of Rabbets from out of 
 the very Uterus it felf. 
 f E Dr. Douglafs, who was lb kind as to 
 1K write down her Confeflion from her 
 own Mouth, will I hope Ihortly o- 
 i blige the World with it at large, 
 % when Ihe has difcover’d the whole. 
 
 )t) Thus have I given a full and faith- 
 il ful Account of every material thing 
 ; k which occurred to me during my con- 
 { ; ftant Attendance upon Mary Toft from 
 jt Monday, the 18 th of November, 1 7*6* 
 
 to 
 
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 V 
 
 to December the 7th following, which 
 I thought my felf obliged to commu¬ 
 nicate to the World, as well for their 
 Satisfaction, as for the Juftification of 
 my own Condud. 
 
 Decemb. 8. 
 1726. 
 
 R. Manntngham. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
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REMARKS 
 
 o N 
 
 Some Passages 
 
 In Sir R. Manningham’s 
 
 D I A R Y> 
 
 Am oblig’d to Sir Rich¬ 
 ard Manningbam, for 
 the Juftice he has done 
 me in his Diary late¬ 
 ly publifh’d, by owning, p. 20. 
 that when he talk’d to me of the 
 Affair of Mary Tofts, I told 
 B him. 
 
him, in a peremptory Manner, 
 that it muft be a Cheat} and 
 likewife, p. 32. that I afliftedhim 
 in perfuading and preparing that 
 unhappy Woman to make a 
 Difcovery of the Truth. But 
 as from fome other PafTages of 
 his Book, efpecially Two or 
 Three Expreffions related by 
 him as mine. People may be 
 led to believe, that, for fome 
 Time at leaft, I was of the 
 fame Opinion of which he has 
 candidly enough acknowledged 
 himfelf to have been ; I think 
 it incumbent on me, in the 
 fame publick Manner, to give a 
 fhort Account of my Behaviour, 
 efpecially fuch Parts of it as 
 have been, or may be, excepted 
 againft, fince I firft heard of 
 
 this 
 
v _ 7 
 
 i 3 ] '1 
 
 this extraordinary Delivery' of 
 Rabbits. 
 
 3t 
 
 It 
 
 4 1 begin by declaring it to 
 l ; have been always my firm Opi- 
 I iiion, that this Report was 
 ; falfe j in the Firft Place, be- 
 
 caufe I never could conceive the 
 
 5 Generation of a perfect Rab- 
 bit in the Uterus of a Woman 
 
 ■ to be poflible, it being contra- 
 1 didtory to all that is^ hitherto 
 ; known, both from Reafon and 
 " Experience, concerning the or- 
 dinary, as well as extraordi- 
 ; nary Procedure of Nature, in 
 1 the Formation of a Foetus : And, 
 in the next Place, becaufe I 
 never could conceive it practi¬ 
 cable, that any fuch Subltances 
 f as were talk’d of, fhould be 
 j B 2 thruft 
 
 n 
 
[ 4 1 
 
 thruft up, through'the narrow 
 Neck, into the Cavity of that 
 Organ; that being repugnant 
 to the Stru6lure of the Part lo 
 well known from Anatomy. 
 Thefe I gave openly, as my Sen- 
 timents of the Matter, in all 
 Companies where I had Oc* 
 cafion to mention it, while 
 the Woman remain’d at Guil¬ 
 ford, notwithstanding the re¬ 
 peated Confirmations of it, by 
 new and fpecious Appearances 
 of Fa£ts, with which the Town 
 was every Day alarm d. 
 
 But from the Time that the 
 Woman was brought to the Ba¬ 
 gnio, in LeiceJter-Fields, I did 
 pot fo publickly and frequently 
 
 talk 
 
[ 5 3 
 
 
 talk againft the Impofture, as I 
 I had before done •, nor rail at 
 r thofe who buffer’d themlelves to 
 , be impos’d on, with all that Ill- 
 E Nature and Noife with which 
 (ome others continu d to do. 
 
 j, On Wednesday the goth of 
 
 November, about One o Clock 
 
 ' in the Morning, I recciv d the 
 t following Letter from Mr. St. 
 
 j. Andre. 
 
 ill S I R, 
 
 I Have brought the Woman 
 from Guilford to the Bagnio 
 ; in Leicefter-Fields. She has now 
 a live Rabbit in her , and I 
 
 expett Ihortly a Delivery •, you 
 f will 
 
C 6 ] 
 
 "will infinitely oblige me to de- 
 liver her yourfelf. Mr. Amiand 
 is already here. 
 
 I am, &c. 
 
 Leicefter-Fields, Nov. 
 
 29, 172-5, 12 o’Ciock 
 
 a, High:. St . Andrc. 
 
 I went immediately to the 
 Bagnio, where, befides Mr. Ser¬ 
 geant Amyand and Mr. St. An¬ 
 dre, I found a good Number 
 of Gentlemen more. Having 
 examin’d the Woman, at Mr. 
 St. Andres Requefl, and ask’d 
 her what Queftions I thought 
 proper^ he defir’d me to deliver 
 my Opinion to the Company • 
 which I did in thefe or the like 
 Words: 
 
 ‘ c That 
 
1 C 7 ] 
 
 I cc That there was nothing in y 
 fc the Viig 'ma, nor, as I believ’d, 
 ff in the Uterus of that Woman l 
 cc that the Motions of her Belly 
 cc were very different from thofe 
 (C caus d by a Child, or any other 
 ml cc living Animal j and therefore 
 tc were probably Hyfterick, or 
 i cc only Convulfive Contractions 
 Cf of the Mufcles of the Abdo- 
 men i and that the Moiffure 
 k f£ which fhe fqueez’d out of her 
 fil Cf Nipples, was not really Milk.” 
 
 1 
 
 That there was nothing in 
 4 the Va gwa, Mr. St. Andre own- 
 im ed > itrenuoufly denying all I 
 if; * lad befides : But as I did 
 | not go there to difpute, the 
 Converfation became general, 
 i* and chang’d to fomething elfe! 
 
 A 
 
 n 
 
[ 8 ] 
 
 A little while afterwards, Mr; j 
 St. Jndr c told me, that tho u 
 he had given me his Word, in 
 his Letter, that I Ihould de¬ 
 liver the Woman 5 neverthelefs, U 
 as it was agreeable to his Ma- 
 jefty’s Pleafure that he Ihould 1 
 carry Sir Richard Mann Ingham 
 down with him to Guilford , 
 he muff beg lo far to be ex¬ 
 cus’d from his Promife, as that 
 1 would allow this Gentleman 
 to perform that Office firft, af- 
 furing me withal, that as the 
 Rabbits were always brought 
 away in Pieces, I Ihould footi 
 have a full Opportunity of be¬ 
 ing fatisfy’d of the Truth. 
 
 I anfwer’d. That it was per- 
 
 fe<5tly indifferent to me, whe¬ 
 ther 
 
VI7 
 
 C 9 3 
 
 ther I deliver’d her firft or laft 3 
 only I begg’d thefe Two Con- 
 ditions might be agreed to, nei¬ 
 ther of which, as I conceiv’d^ 
 could be reckon’d an Incroach- 
 ment on the Privilege he now 
 d claim’d for Sir Richard. 
 
 [ii • ■ • 
 
 Jf Firft, that before any thing 
 it was brought away, I might be 
 si allow’d to feel it while in the 
 
 |e® Cervix Uteri before it paffed 
 
 j thro’ the Os Tinea ; becaufe, 
 
 sit by any thing lefs than that, it 
 ol would be'in vain for him to 
 |jj endeavour to convince me that 
 if! n ^ally came from the Uterus, 
 
 Secondly, That Mr. Chef el- 
 den might be fent for, and Mr. 
 
 ^ Amy and and he be allow’d the 
 \ C fame 
 
 n 
 
lame Liberty which I ask’d fot j 
 mylelf. [ 
 
 Both Sir Richard and Mr. St* 
 Andr e accepted thele Conditi¬ 
 ons j but it was not without fome 
 Difficulty that I could perfuade 
 them to call in Mr. Chefclden. 
 
 I likewife, afterwards, propos’d 
 that more Accoucheurs , Surgeons 
 and Phyficians too, than they 
 had upon their Lift, might be 
 defir’d to attend ^ but this I could 
 not prevail with them to grant, 
 till it was too late. About Ten 
 o’clock, Mr. Chef el den carnet 
 and, among other Things, ask’d 
 Mr. Howard feveral Queftions, 
 which, however much to the 
 Purpole, I took the Liberty to 
 tell hinij I thought not at all 
 
 proper 
 
^7 
 
 C ii ] 
 
 proper at that Time : The Rea- 
 fon I then gave him., I fhall have 
 Occafion to mention in another 
 Place. 
 
 i, 
 
 li 
 
 On Thursday ., December i. 
 
 . The Leaping of the Rabbit., as 
 it was call'd., ceas’d., and the 
 Woman was taken with Pains., 
 in which all the Appearances of 
 t- thofe by which a true Labour 
 1 ufually begins., were very exadt* 
 
 ‘ ly counterfeited j and I then 
 1 publickly laid., that from any 
 - thing in tliefe Pains conlider’d 
 
 I in themlelves only., I was not 
 u able to diftinguifh them from 
 >* fuchj for there "was certainly a 
 I' very great forcing down of the 
 
 Uterus, and Vefica Urinaria, 
 with a Fullnefs and Conltridlion 
 ; of the Vagina, occafion’d by 
 
 II C 2 holding 
 
[ 12 ] 
 
 holding in her Breath, and 
 draining down with Violence j 
 but I never perceiv’d them to be £ 
 accompanied with any Opening i 
 of the Ofculum Uteri , or Pains ! 
 in the Back and Belly j neither i 
 did they go off after the Manner 
 of true Pains. 
 
 That fame Day feveral Perfons 
 of great Diftination and Worth 
 did me the Honour to ask me 
 what had pafs’d : I told them in 
 general Terms, that no Delivery 
 had as yet happen’d } that Mr. 
 St. Andr 'e and Mr. Howard ftill 
 expected one very fuddenly; and. 
 that I would not fail to give 
 them Notice upon the firft Ap¬ 
 pearances of any thing that 
 look’d like it. 
 
v 7 
 
 C 13 ] 
 
 Mr. St. Jndr 'e having Ihew’d 
 me the Proof Sheets of his Nar¬ 
 rative, which I read over in fome 
 Hurry, I told him, that to me 
 t it appear’d to contain nothing 
 > but a Collection of Impolhbili- 
 ties j particularly that what he 
 faid about the Formation of thefe 
 ft Animals in the FaUoppian Tubes, 
 id and their palling through the 
 narrow Endings thereof, into 
 t the Cavity of the Uterus , in fo 
 iff fhort a Time, was equally re¬ 
 pugnant to the Structure of thefe 
 !i - Parts, and to univerfal Experi¬ 
 ence ; for that, in all Tubarian 
 f Conceptions, of which only Two 
 1 had occurr’d to me in Twen- 
 | ty Seven Years Practice of Mid¬ 
 wifery, th c Foetus forces its Way 
 
 through 
 
through the Tubes, not into the 
 Uterus , but into the Cavity of 
 the Abdomen , and there foon 
 kills the Patient. I added fur¬ 
 ther, That the Noife of Snap¬ 
 ping and breaking of the Bones, 
 which he talk’d of, muft certain¬ 
 ly be a Romance, notwithstand¬ 
 ing the Number of the WitnefTes 
 he appeal’d to; and that for this 
 plain Reafon, among many o- 
 thers, becaufe it is impoflible 
 that fuch a Noife fhould ever be 
 heard. He made anfwer, by af- 
 furing me, in a very pofitive 
 Manner, that I fhould foon 
 hear it myfelf. 
 
 On Friday , Mr. Sergeant Amy- 
 and defir’d me to go and fee the 
 Rabbits, which Mr. Ahlers had 
 
 brought 
 
 r\ 
 
v 7 
 
 C *5 J 
 
 brought fome Days before from 
 Guilford ; but I excus’d myfelf, 
 by telling him that I thought fuch 
 Enquiries were improper at that 
 Time, for the fame Realon 
 which I had before given Mr. 
 Chefelden. But the moft remar¬ 
 kable Thing thatoccurr’d to me 
 that Day, was, that having deli- 
 red to vifit the Woman, I was 
 denied Admittance, Mr. St. An¬ 
 dre and Mr. Howard being both 
 abroad. I told feveral Gentle¬ 
 men, then at the Bagnio, that 
 I was afraid fome new Monfier 
 was breeding •, and went away 
 with a Refolution to return no 
 more. 
 
 ? 
 
 On Saturday Afternoon, Mr. 
 St. Andre , who had not only 
 
 fent 
 
TJ W 
 
 [•O - I 
 
 lent me a Letter the Night be¬ 
 fore, but difpatch’d Two MefTen- 
 gerstome that Morning, and left 
 another Letter for me at Noon, 
 came himfelf to my Houfe, and 
 begg’d very earneftly that I would 
 go and attend but a little while 
 longer,or promife to come when¬ 
 ever he fhould fend me Word * 
 adding withal, that if he Could 
 but once fatisfy me about the 
 Reality of the Thing, he did 
 hot care who elfe disbeliev d it. 
 Thefe prefling Solicitations pre¬ 
 vail’d on me to change my for¬ 
 mer Refointions •, but during all 
 the Time I ftaid, the Woman was 
 without any Appearance of Pain, 
 and nothing extraordinary hap¬ 
 pen’d to her. However, I rec¬ 
 kon’d my Attendance very well 
 
 rewarded 
 
 r\ 
 
[ i7 3 
 
 rewarded by an Incident that 
 fell out in the Evening, which 
 ferv’d to ulher in the Ddcovery 
 of the whole Impoltuie, an In 
 formation being given to the 
 Ri»ht Hon. the Lords Albemarle 
 and Limerick , by a Servant o 
 the Bagnio, that the Woman 
 had imploy'd him to procure 
 her a Rabbit claiideftinely. My 
 Lord Limerick did me the Ho* 
 nour to defire I would be pre¬ 
 lent, and Sir Richard Man - 
 ningham wrote down the In¬ 
 formation. It was not, how¬ 
 ever, thought convenient to di¬ 
 vulge this Piece of News, nil 
 next Day, that more effectual 
 Meafures might he taken to 
 come at the whole Truth- 
 
u 
 
 [ 13 ] 
 
 On Sunday Morning I was 
 very much furpriz’d to find 
 a fenfible Swelling and Full- 
 uefs a little above the Os Pu¬ 
 bis, which I thought I could 
 circumfcribe with my Fingers, 
 Several Gentlemen perceiv’d and 
 examin’d it likewife, but none 
 of us knew, at that Time, 
 to what Caufe it was to be 
 afcribd : But as it quite dif* 
 appear d before the Afternoon, 
 i then judgd it to have pro. 
 ceeded from fome flatulent Hu¬ 
 mours collected and pent up 
 in the lower Part of the Jb- 
 domen. 
 
 Between Three and Four o’ 
 Clock in the Afternoon the 
 
 Woman 
 
 
C *9 ] 
 
 i 
 l 
 
 ii 
 
 n 
 
 ! 
 
 i» 
 
 t 
 
 Ik 
 
 o 
 
 Woman fell again into Pains, 
 but not near lo violent as thofe 
 {he had on the Wednesday be¬ 
 fore. Mr. SU Andre and Mr. 
 Howard very confidently al¬ 
 lured us that thele were the 
 Fore-runners of Labour, which 
 they expedted would follow in 
 a very little Time. Sir .Ri~ 
 chard Mann'mgham being pre- 
 fent, all I had to do was to 
 defire him and Mr. St. An¬ 
 
 dre to remember their Promile 
 15 but the Pains foon went old, 
 
 > without any farther Appearance 
 
 ^ of what they expected. 
 
 U 
 
 i The Servant at the Bagnio 
 made Oath this Evening of all 
 he had inf orm’d us of the Night 
 fl before and as from that Time 
 i D i the 
 
the Affair came under the Cos- 
 
 ■> t O 
 
 nizance of the Civil Magiftrate, 
 the Sequel of it is foreign to 
 the Defign of this Relation • 
 wherein I have taken Care not 
 to omit the leaft Circ um fiance, 
 from which it may, with any 
 Colour of Probability, be in- 
 ferr’d, that I ever fo much as 
 fufpected that the Story of this 
 Woman’s breeding, and being 
 deliver’d of Rabbits, might have 
 any real Foundation. 
 
 I come, in the next Place, 
 with the fame Freedom and 
 Sincerity, to offer the Reafons 
 and Motives of my Behaviour, 
 by which I hope fully to evince 
 that as upon the firft News I 
 heard of this Affair, I was firm¬ 
 ly 
 
 ij 
 
V’ 
 
 C 21 ] 
 
 ' ty perfuaded the whole was a 
 Trick ; lo no Part of my Con¬ 
 duit, after the Woman was 
 brought to Town, can have 
 given any juft Ground for ima- 
 61 gining that I either really did, 
 ls or was ever inclin’d to change 
 r - my Opinion, 
 o ,' v . • - . • 
 
 In general, therefore, I de- 
 fire it may be obferv’d, That 
 even the greateft Sticklers for 
 the Reality of this wonderful 
 ¥h(£nomenon 3 did not pretend 
 f that it was, in any Refpe6t, 
 
 1 confirm’d by new Proofs, af¬ 
 ter the Woman came hither ; 
 if I had chang’d my Opinion, 
 
 I therefore, it muft have been 
 fi upon no Manner of Foundp.- 
 if tion. 
 
 Further, 
 
 
C 22 ] 
 
 
 Further, from what I obferv’d 
 myfelf, in examining the Wo¬ 
 man, during my dole Attendance 
 on her, and in comparing eve¬ 
 ry Day’s Experience with the 
 pofitive Affurances of a Deli¬ 
 very, conftantly given us by 
 Mr. St. Andre and Mr. How¬ 
 ard, I muft have concluded 
 the Credibility of the whole 
 to be in a declining Con¬ 
 dition ; and this Conclufion 
 could not but be very much 
 ftrengthened by the pofitive 
 Appearances of Fraud, lome 
 of which I have mentioned, 
 chufing, for the Sake of ci¬ 
 thers, to pafs over the reft. 
 If in this State of Things, 
 
 any 
 
 
— 
 
 fc 
 
 C 23 ] 
 
 any Body can believe I chan¬ 
 ged my Opinion, he muft (up- 
 pofe me capable not only of 
 doing it without Grounds^ but 
 in Ipite of all the Proofs of 
 that which I fir ft entertain’d., 
 that the Nature of the Thing 
 would allow of, till the whole 
 Dilcovery of the Impofture was 
 made. 
 
 But without infilling any 
 longer on thefe , however 
 ftrong Prefumptions in my 
 Favour, I go on to the exce¬ 
 ptionable Part of my Conduct. 
 And firfl, The Refervednefs of 
 my Behaviour, in not talk¬ 
 ing with the fame Opennefs 
 and Freedom againft the Cheat 
 as I did at firft} which, how 
 
C7 
 
 [ H ] 1 
 
 it came ever to be made an 
 Argument either of my Igno¬ 
 rance or Credulity, is to me a * 
 very greatMyftery j andJ believe, 
 muff be fo to every thinking 
 Perfon 3 who confiders the Si¬ 
 tuation I was in. 
 
 t v vV 
 
 For, in the firft Place, as 
 it was of the utmoft Confe- 
 quence that the whole Truth 
 of this Affair fhould be de¬ 
 tected, becaufe of the bad Ef¬ 
 fects with which it might other- 
 wife have been attended} fo 
 I may without Vanity af¬ 
 firm, that the Town feem’d 
 to repofe fome Confidence in 
 what fhould be my Determi- 1 
 nation. 
 
V’ 
 
 C 25 ] 
 
 1 
 
 I' v - - J 
 
 To be able to determine, to 
 the Satisfaction and Conviction 
 { ’ of all Sorts of Perfons, other 
 Arguments were neceffary, than 
 Anatomy, or any other Branch of 
 Phyliclc, could furnifh. Of thefe 
 the greateft Number are not 
 Judges. It was therefore undoubt- 
 ‘ edly very natural for me to de- 
 lire that People would fulpend 
 any farther Judgment for a lit¬ 
 tle Time, till fuch Proofs could 
 be brought of the Impofture 
 as they requir’d 5 and as I was 
 allured, from the Two Rea¬ 
 sons already mention’d in the 
 k Beginning of this Relation, and 
 ’other Circumftances that oc- 
 curr’d every Day, I fhould 
 oon be able to bring, or, 
 
 F* which 
 
 
[2 6 3 
 
 which was the fame Thing, 
 to a (hit others in bringing-, be- 
 j n g refolv’d to fpare no Pains 
 nor Attendance in difcovering 
 the paft Frauds, as well as in 
 preventing new Impofrtions. 
 This was the principal End 1 
 propos’d to myfelf in all I did, 
 and not my own Satisfaflion, 
 in a Thing which from the Be¬ 
 ginning 1 believ’d to be fo fa 
 impoflible, as that had I no, 
 with good Reafon, apprehend 
 ed the fatal Tendency ot it to 
 
 the weaker Sex efpecially, Iveiy 
 much queftion whether ever 
 fhould have fpent any mote 
 Time in enquiring about it, than 
 about any other Piece of Net 
 
 which engroffes the Convera 
 tionof the Town. ^ 
 
[ 2 7 ] 
 
 Again, it has but too plainly 
 1 appear’d, from all that has hap- 
 : pen’d in this Affair, how deeply 
 t the Reputation of leveral Per¬ 
 is ions was engag’d in it, even 
 |[ from the Beginning : Mr. How- 
 |t ard and Mr. St. Andre were of 
 l this Number. Of the firft of 
 H whom I had heard a very ad-, 
 fjc vantageous Charadfer ^ the fe¬ 
 lt cond, tho’ a molt ingenious Ana- 
 ;t tomift, I all along believ’d to be 
 [| impos’d upon \ and both of them 
 pj feem’d extreamly defirous that 
 ‘j the Thing fhould be brought to 
 . | a fair Trial, at which 1 could not 
 jj help exprefling my Surprize and 
 f Amazement oftener than once. 
 ,} This I judg’d not only to re- 
 e j quire of me the utmoft Caution 
 and Circumfpedtion j which.. 
 
 F. 2 where 
 
c*8-j . m 
 
 where People’s Reputation and t 
 Bread are concern’d, can hard- i 
 ly ever be too great} but it i 
 likewife inclin’d me to allow 
 them, as far as it was in my 
 Power, both Time and Op¬ 
 portunity, firft of undeceiving 
 themfelves, and then of making 
 fome Atonement to the World 
 for their paft Behaviour, in 
 the Manner they Ihouid have 
 thought molt proper. 
 
 As thefe were the general 
 Views that led me into this x^f- 
 fair at firft, lo they ferv’d to 
 conduct me in every Step of my 
 Proceedings; and will at firlt 
 Sight juftify every Expreflion, 
 and every Action of mine, thro* 
 the whole Courfe of my Atten¬ 
 dance j 
 
C 2 9 ] 
 
 dance; the (ole Defign of which 
 
 was to come at a fpeedy Difco- 
 very of the Impofture, by plain, 
 fenfible, and undeniable Fads, 
 of which all the World might 
 be Judges, and not Phyffcians 
 in and Anatomifts only, who were 
 
 i capable of determining the Mat^ 
 ft ter upon other Principles. With 
 j this View, and with this View 
 
 k only, it was, that upon my frft 
 
 going to the Bagnio, I began by 
 making fuch Terms with thofe 
 1 more immediately concern’d, as 
 
 ii I thought were moft likely to 
 put the whole Affair upon the 
 
 I: fhortelt and fureft Iffhe, and 
 !t that I again reminded them of 
 i our Agreements, at Times when 
 * J found them moftpofitive that 
 li; iome extraordinary Event was 
 
[ 3° 1 1 
 
 to happen. Neither could I 
 have any other Motive for the 
 Caution 1 prefum’d to give forne 
 of my very good Friends, un* 
 queftionable Judges in fuch Mat¬ 
 ters, and equally convinc’d of 
 the Fraud with myfelf, not to 
 trouble themfelves, nor divert 
 me at that Time, by entering 
 upon Anatomical Difcuffions, 
 which I was of Opinion would 
 ftill leave Room for Cavils, Re¬ 
 plies and Mifapprehenfions, and 
 at beft could end in nothing 
 more than what we all already 
 knew. But Specially I thought 
 it improper that Mr. Howard 
 ftiould be ask’d too many Que- 
 ftions, which he being unable to 
 anfwer, the Effeft of them muft 
 be only to puzzle and confound, 
 
I C 3* ] 
 
 1 not to convince him ; and there- 
 5! upon, perhaps, incline him to 
 ! take fome fudden Refolutions, 
 I which would rather have ob- 
 1 flru&ed * than forwarded us in 
 ot; making the Difcovery, in the 
 Ik Way 1 all along wanted it to be 
 o made. 
 
 b. • '" . 
 
 n In this Manner are all the 
 
 ; ! other Fa&s I have fet down to 
 i r be judg’d of; neither do they 
 i fuffer any Difficulty, after what 
 |p has been faid, except in as far as 
 g they have been mifreprefented. 
 This brings me to Sir Richard 
 Mannmghams Diary which o- 
 bliges me to trouble the Publick 
 at this Time. 
 
[ 3 2 3 
 
 • J 
 
 5 
 
 In p. 21. I am faid to have 1 
 been of Opinion, that the Pains 
 which the Woman had upon 
 her at the Time he talks of, 
 were of the fame Nature with 
 ■Labour Pains without the Ad¬ 
 dition of any Reftri&ion. But 
 I am very pofitive that I pever 
 us’d that Expreflion (if I us’d it 
 at all) in any other Manner 
 than I have above related * nei¬ 
 ther were more particular Ex¬ 
 planations to be expected from 
 me at that Time, the Company 
 then prefent being a very unfuit- 
 able Audience for a Ledture in 
 Midwifery. But even this is 
 not the worlt Senfe in which my 
 Words have been mifconftru’d; 
 for Mr. Howard , who pretended 
 
 to 
 
- C 33 1 
 
 to have been prefent at her for¬ 
 mer Deliveries, having made 
 Anfwer to what I faid, that the 
 fame Sort of Pains always prece- 
 5! ded thefe 5 fome bufy People, 
 
 ■ either out ot Ignorance or Ma- 
 fl lice, by joining my Words and. 
 
 : his AnKver together, have made 
 me nprefent her as actually go- 
 b! ing into Labour, a Ihiflg I ne- 
 ffi ver faid, nor ever Imagin’d. 
 i» 
 
 ii p. 23. I am faid to have ap- 
 fe prehended that the Swelling 
 ip which I perceiv’d on Sunday 
 i Morning, was in the Cavity of 
 Hi the Uterus, by which, if he 
 In means that I apprehended it to 
 |i proceed from any Animal, or 
 it; Part of an Animal, either for na¬ 
 if ed or lodged in that Cavity, 
 
 F I can 
 
J 
 
 C 34] 
 
 I can very pofitively affert, that 
 I was fully convinc’d of the 
 contrary, and never exprefs’d 1 
 any tiling like it. 
 
 P. 24. I am faid to have agreed 
 with the other Phyficians, 
 then preient, in apprehending 
 that fometh'mg would foon ijfue 
 from the Uterus. Whether thefe 
 Gentlemen either did apprehend, 
 or faid they apprehended any 
 inch Thing, I leave it to them 
 to determine; but that I agreed 
 with them in thefe Apprehen- 
 fions, I utterly deny. It may 
 indeed be true, that being then 
 fo much us’d to Mr. St. Andrh 
 and Mr. Howard's pofitive Way 
 ot talking about every thing 
 that related to this Woman, I 
 
 did 
 
C 35 ] 
 
 did not immediately exprefs my 
 ! Diflent to what they laid (to 
 ■ the Reafon of which Behaviour 
 I I hope the Reader is by this 
 Time no Stranger) and from 
 thence, together with my ha¬ 
 lf ving put him in Mind of his 
 ls i Promife, I imagine he has con- 
 w eluded that I was of the fame 
 ®j Opinion with them. If this 
 C[ i be not the Cafe, his Memory 
 itk mull have fail’d him, or he 
 has miftaken the Voice of fome 
 oil other Perfon then in the Room 
 f for mine; for I cannot believe 
 pc him capable of ufing any un¬ 
 lit fair Means, to have the Latin 
 igi Proverb on his Side. 
 k ' ' 
 
[ 3 * ] ; 
 
 To conclude. If, notwith- 
 iianding this fair and open Re- 
 prefentation of my Conduft, 
 and of the Motives I was in¬ 
 fluenc’d by in every Step of it, 
 any Expreflion or Adtion of 
 mine Ihould (till continue to 
 be conftru’d to my Prejudice, 
 by Perfons who think the beft 
 Way of eftablidling their own 
 Charadter is by preying upon 
 thole who have fome to lole j 
 all the Juft ice I have further to 
 beg of the impartial World, is, 
 that other People’s Words may 
 not be miftaken for, nor con¬ 
 founded with mine, nor Con- 
 clufions alcrib’d to me, which 
 the Malice of fome may make 
 them ingenious enough to draw 
 from what I either have faid in 
 
 a Hurry, 
 
[ 37 3 
 
 ft a Hurry, in a ludicrous Man- 
 il ner, or at Times and Places 
 i where I did not think it conve- 
 is nient to come to more particu- 
 o[ lar Explications. If this be 
 h granted me, as I doubt not but 
 nt it will, by all whofe Opinion of 
 mi me it is worth my while to re- 
 kI gard, I (hall have no farther 
 [Ci Occafion to trouble the Publick 
 
 i about the Affair of Mary Tofts, 
 )|i till I have finifh’d the Confide¬ 
 nt! rations advertiz’d by me fome 
 | Time ago • in which I (hall fully 
 jjj evince, from what may be cer- 
 (I tainly known concerning the 
 ,(< Theory of Generation, from 
 T | the Principles and Practice of 
 
 ii Midwifery, from the Structure 
 t j of the Uterine Parts in a Wo- 
 g man, and from the Appearances 
 
[ 3 » ] 
 
 of the Rabbits themfelves, that 
 fuch a Delivery was impoflible. ') 
 In the mean Time, I hope all 
 breeding Women will depend 
 on this as a certain Truth, that j 
 it is no lefs probable, that a 
 Rabbit Ihonld conceive and be 
 deliver’d of a Human Child, 
 than that any Creature whatever, 
 of an intirely different Species, 
 ihould be form’d in the Belly 
 of a Woman. 
 
 London , Dec. 
 
 id. I "1x6. 
 
 Ja. Douglas. 
 
 Page 14. Line ult, for Rabbi ts } read Rabbit. 
 
SOME 
 
 OBSERVATIONS 
 
 CONCERNING 
 
 The Woman of Godlyman 
 
 In Surrey. 
 
 ml 
 
 ^.Made at Guilford on Sunday , Nov. 20. 172 6 . 
 
 ft TENDING 
 
 F-To prove her extraordinary Deliveries 
 :l to be a Cheat and Impofture. 
 
 By Cyriacus Ahlers, Surgeon to 
 His Majefty. 
 
 LONDON: 
 
 ... Printed for J. Roberts in Warwick-Lane. 
 
 


 THE 
 
 PREFACE 
 
 T O T H E 
 
 READER. 
 
 HE following Sheets contain a 
 fhort , and fair , Narrative of 
 the Obfervations 1 made at Guil¬ 
 ford, concerning the Woman of 
 Godlyman in Surrey, whofe uncommon Tie- 
 liveries are now become the general Talk cf 
 the Town. It is drawn up with all pof- 
 fible Candour ; and the Facts , whether feen 
 or tranfaUed by me , faithfully Jlated y and 
 
 a al- 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 altogether agreeable to the Report I had tbt 
 Honour to make to his Majefty immediately # 
 upon my Return from thence. I had no 
 T boughts at firjl to appear with it inRrint ; 
 but being call'd upon in fo publick a man- 
 ner, 1 could not, in jufiice to my own Repu¬ 
 tation, deny that Gentleman as publick a 
 Satisfaction. Let the Event of this Affair 
 be what it will, I dare appeal to every ju¬ 
 dicious and impartial Reader, whetherl 
 had not fnfjffcient Reafon to fnfpeCt a Fraui 
 and Impofture, and whether 1 could net 
 upon very good Grounds venture to declare 
 it openly, as I will not deny to have done ., 
 / was very much furprizd to find, at the 
 latter End of the Narrative publifh'd l] 
 Mr. St. Andre, feveral Affidavits concerning 
 me, and my Conduit at Guilford j none in¬ 
 deed tending to prove the Truth of what 
 was attejled in the Narrative itfelf, but all 
 purely leveltd at my Character and Reputa¬ 
 tion. By the following Account, which I 
 do here moji folemnly declare to be true in 
 
 every 
 
preface. 
 
 very Particular, having averted nothing 
 herein , hut what I can take upon me, and 
 yhat 1 my felf faw, heard, or tranfaUed , 
 t will appear , that it agrees in fome Par¬ 
 ticulars with the Ttepofitions mention'd cl¬ 
 ove •, but greatly differs in others. I mu ft 
 ’■an, that it grieved me to find fo many ap- 
 arent Untruths therein [were to j feveral of 
 yhich-, for being too trifling, 1 forbear men- 
 ■ 'oning at prefent r Put it is abfolutely ne- 
 •ffary that I Jhould clear up two Points, 
 oon which both the officious Gentlemen , who, 
 it of a tender , though undeferved, Regard 
 r the Vindication of my Char adder, were 
 'eafed to procure the Affidavits aforefaid, 
 nd to fubjoin them to their Narrative, and 
 m which the Perfons that fwore to the 
 if ruth thereof feem to have laid the greatefl 
 v trefs of their Evidence. Thefe are , I. My 
 tilling Mr. Tho. Howard, That I Extrac- 
 , sed the Loins and Inferior Parts of the Rab- 
 ;3t, which I brought away from Mary Toft 
 ut of the Uterus. II. My Refnfal to 
 ay at Guilford, to take away the Reft of 
 
 a 2 the 
 
preface. 
 
 the Parts of the aforefaid Rabbet, Mo very 
 much prel&d both by Mr. J. and Mr. Tk 
 Howard. As to the fir ft of theft twRms, 
 which, in the Correct ed Edition of the Nar¬ 
 rative, was expreffed in Capital Letters ,» 
 is ft eery abfurd and ridiculous, that it 
 ftarce needs any Reply at all. Was In 
 frost, that I did make nfe of theft m, 
 ExpreJlmes, which Mr. Howard /wears 
 did, would it have done the Cauft an, pie 
 Surely, it would be an iuexcvfable ‘Pre/tnef 
 tion in me to imagine, that the 'Pem 
 field believe a Thing, for no other Redo, 
 'but becaufe 1 beliedd, and fa,d ft. U 
 sot deny, but that at Guilford Ibehtmlj 
 Pelf all along, like one who was perfeo, 
 fa-isfied of the Matter: 1 bad vet,(d 
 Reaftns for ft doing s and was not <#» 
 w own it upon my Return. Rut as u * 
 Terms in Mr. Howards Jtfidavit , 1 
 aver that 1 never Jo much as thou,efff. 
 them, till 1 found them in ‘Print. Jfa* 
 had no manner of Reafon^ no private 0 
 
r' V_" 
 
 PREFA C E. 
 
 ■ iior indeed any Motive at dll-, thdt could 
 1 induce me to difguife my Conduct, I flatter 
 I wyjelf, that I jb dll be allow'd in juft ice, 
 
 at leajl fo much Credit and 'Belief as Peo- 
 i pie can f retend to, who, when once con- 
 ‘ cern'd in an Impofture , will venture every 
 thing to go through with it. sis to the fe~ 
 
 : cond Point, My Refufal to flay at Guilford, 
 
 ■ till the Woman was deliver'd of the remain- 
 in? Parts of the fifteenth Rabbet, Part 
 
 ‘l ^hereof 1 had extracted in the Morning, 
 
 1 this is Something more material ; and infinu- 
 ' ates plainly, as if the Rabbet, which 1 
 ’ brought to Wiwn with me, and which I had 
 • the Honour to fhew to his Majefiy, and af- 
 h upwards to feveral Per (on s of Note and 
 ' DiJHnation, was not come away from the 
 Woman during my Stay at Guilford. Ehei e 
 5l? being no Mention made of this Particular 
 !: in the Evidence of the Women, lwillcon- 
 ' fine my [elf to the Affidavit of Mr. John, 
 ' !,:i and Mr. Tho. Howard. 1 do fnppofe, in 
 the fir ft Place, that thefie two Gentlemen 
 
 made 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 made proper Allowances, for that the Ex- 
 duff on of Mr. Brand, whom Mr. John How¬ 
 ard would not fujffer to come with me into 
 the 'Patient's Room, depriv'd me of a pro¬ 
 per Witnefs, to attejl what pajl on both 
 fides. This was moji certainly a Hardfbip 
 upon me, and, beyond all doubt, done with 
 fome finijler View. The Intention of theft 
 Affidavits, and indeed the neceffary Confe- 
 quences, evidently tending to an indirect, 
 Accufation, not only of a grofs Impojhire , 
 for which, were 1 guilty of it, I ought to 
 be feverely punifhed; but, moreover, of a 
 notorious Preach of Faith to the King my 
 Mafler, for which 1 Jlmild defervedly incur 
 his utmoft Ttifpleafure, my Honour and Re¬ 
 putation call loudly for Redrefs and Satis¬ 
 faction, which I (hall endeavour to obtain 
 in the mcjl publick and ample manner. 1 
 could, indeed, in my own 'Defence, pre¬ 
 viously infifi upon the very Improbability of 
 the Thing I could alledge the Character of 
 a Man of Honefty and Probity, which l 
 
 have 
 
 k 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 have hitherto bore , and hope to preferve a- 
 mong all thofe I have the Honour to be ac¬ 
 quainted withal, and which hath mad e 
 me not unworthy to be employ'd in his Ma¬ 
 yfly's Service ,• but I Jkall purpcfely avoid 
 theje, and the like Proofs , being able to pro¬ 
 duce others ftill (Ironger, to evince the con¬ 
 trary i I mean , the joint Evidence of Mr. 
 Brand, who was with me at Guilford, and 
 r Mr. Ziegler, who lives with Mr. Jagers the 
 in Kings Apothecary , and who are both ready 
 nto atteft upon Oath , the firft, that in his 
 ■■Prefence Mr. Howard inform d me of the 
 ■■ Delivery of the Head ; that 1 begg'd , and 
 i obtain d it of him •, that I put it up with 
 the other Parts , and that I enquir'd after 
 ::the Inteflines and Feet: [he fecond , that 
 
 ■ on Tuefday Evening he deliver'd a Mejfage 
 to me from Mr. Howard, informing me of 
 the Delivery of the [eventeenth Rabbet, and 
 
 \ufequefling me to fend back mine , being the 
 Sixteenth, according to Promife. After alh 
 
 ■ if my Endeavours have been any ways fer- 
 
 i vice able. 
 
preface. 
 
 V jceable, to find out the Truth of this Mat¬ 
 ter, I find think them well lefiowed ; and 
 as to the reft, genermfly overlook the fern- 
 dalous Jfperfions, and malicious Infinnatim 
 of fome Perfons, of whom I had no reafm to J ; 
 expett fuch Ufage. J,„' 
 
 CVRIACUS AhLERS. • 
 
 P 0 S T- 
 
 
POSTSCRIPT. 
 
 iL 
 
 iy M Onfieur St. Andre having alferted 
 LV1 in his Narrative ( pag. 20.) 
 bat all the Fa&s, as by him there 
 elated, were verified before His Ma¬ 
 dly on Saturday , Nov. 26. Dr. Stei- 
 ertbal and Dr. Teijjier being prefent, 
 was defired by Dr. Steigerthal ,, to 
 jiform the Publick in his Name, that 
 i e a11 aIon g fufpedled this whole Af- 
 ur to be a Fraud and Impofture, and 
 r as far from thinking the compara- 
 v e Anatomy, which is there men* 
 ■ond by Mr. St. Andre , any ways fa- 
 isfa&ory to verifie his Alfertions. 
 
 Cyriacus Ahlers. 
 
 Decemb. 8.1725. 
 
I 
 
 SOME 
 
 OBSERVATIONS 
 
 CONCERNING 
 ’he Woman of GOD LTMA N,8 >Zc. 
 
 N Saturday, Nov. 19. 172 6. 
 I went, with his Majetty’s 
 Leave, to Guilford, there 
 to enquire into the Condi- 
 on of the Woman, who was faid to 
 ave been delivered of fifteen Rabbets, 
 nd to inform my felf of all the Cir- 
 umftances of this uncommon Event, 
 1 order to make my Report to His Ma¬ 
 dly. I fet out that Afternoon at 
 A Four 
 
 i 
 
 
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 Four of the Clock, in Company with 
 Mr. Brand, a Relation of Mr. Ja^er, 
 the King’s Apothecary. We lay at ; 
 Cobbam, and did not reach Guilford till 
 Sunday the 20th, at Ten in the Morn¬ 
 ing. We took our Lodgings at the 
 White-Hart, where we did not flay a- 
 bove a quarter of an Hour : For the 
 Drawer, who faid, he was juft come 
 from Mr. Howard, informing us, that 
 he was at Home, we went ftrait to his 
 Koufe. As we came in they told us, 
 that he would be with us prefently; 
 but about half an Hour after they fail, 
 that he was gone to drefs the Mayor 
 of the Town. After we had been 
 waiting full three quarters of an Hour, 
 he at laft came to us, drefs’d in his 
 Night-gown ; and having been told by 
 me, by vvhofe Leave I came, and about 
 what Bufinefs, he informed me in pre* 
 fence of Mr. Brand, that the Woman 
 
 had 
 
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 ,had been already delivered of fifteen 
 ^Rabbets, and was juft now fallen in La¬ 
 bour of a fixteenth. 
 
 We had been told at the Inn, that 
 I'hey heard Mr. Howard fay, that the 
 labbet had not been perceiv’d to leap, 
 D .,s it ufually did, for about fix Hours; 
 ,:'Ut Mr. Howard himfelf allur’d us, that 
 t had left off leaping ever fince Satur- 
 . 'ay Ten of the Clock in the Morning, 
 
 . nd that he prefumed it muft be dead 
 ; .jnce that Time. 
 
 Hereupon we went to the Woman’s 
 edging, which was over-againft Mr. 
 Howard’s Houfe, who would not fuffer 
 iy Companion to come into the Room 
 r here the Patient was, for fear, as he 
 ; .ud, that too much Company Ihould 
 £ :ighten her; for which Reafon alfo he 
 ^rder d the Nurfe to fee, that the Door 
 f aight be well fatten’d, and to fuffer 
 0 bod y to come in : Neverthelefs, a 
 A 2 little 
 
[ 4 ] 
 
 little while after, feveral Women went % 
 in and out, as they pleafed. The li 
 Door being lock’d, the Nurfe told us, 4 
 that theSkin dropp’d down from her juft .i 
 now. Mr. Howard thereupon examin’d k 
 the Patient, whom we found fitting in . 
 a narrow Elbow-Chair. I was pre - hi 
 paring to do the lame \ but was pre* fc 
 vented by Mr. Howard , who faid, k i 
 would let me know when it was con* , 
 venient. 
 
 The Nurfe, in the mean time, at . 
 our Defire, Ihew’d us the Skin, laid 
 in a Bafon. I touch d it, and found 
 it to feel fomething warm, a littlemoift 
 round the Border ; but every where 
 elfe dry ; and the Hair appeared fmooth 
 and even. Upon unfolding it, I could 
 difeern fome fmall Blood-Vefifels on 
 the iniide; but found not the leal 
 Drop of Blood, nor any Appc aranci 
 
 of Water or Membranes. It f‘ lie “ 
 
 very 
 
 
[ 5 ] 
 
 : very frefh, like the Skin of a wild 
 Rabbet, juft ftripp’d. I asked Mr. How¬ 
 ard , how it was poflible for the Rabbet 
 to have been thus ftripp’d of its Skin 
 in the Womans Belly ; to which he 
 anfwered, He apprehended, that it muft 
 be owing to the violent Prellion of the 
 Womb againft the Os Pubis. The Pa- 
 i-tient, who continued all the while fit* 
 
 «i ting in her Elbow-Chair, with her Stays 
 on, was now defired by Mr. Howard to 
 it walk a little about the Room. I found 
 Si her Pulfe very eafy and quiet, without 
 £ the lcaft Appearance of any feverifh 
 h Diforder : There was little or no Swel- 
 fli ling in her Belly, which, 1 muft own, 
 
 11 furpriz’d me very much. I likewife 
 \ examin’d her Breafts, which I found 
 ft relax’d, without any Hardnefs in the 
 t: Glands, and no Milk in them; only 
 ; upon fqueezing, a little clear Serum 
 came out, fcarce enough to wet the 
 
 tip 
 
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 tip of my Finger. I asked, whether 
 the Swelling of her Belly had ever 
 been greater : And was anfwered by 
 the Nurfe, That all along it had been 
 much at one ; only that fometimes a 
 little Swelling was obferv’d about the 
 Stomach, which quickly difappeared a* 
 gain. I ask’d the Patient herfelf fome 
 Queftions ; but could obtain no An* 
 fwers from her: And Mr. Howard faid, 
 he would take care to inform me ful¬ 
 ly of every Circumftance relating to 
 her Cafe. I obferv’d her with fome 
 Attention, as fhe was walking about the 
 Room, and found that Ihe prefs’d her 
 Knees and Thighs clofe together, as if 
 fhe was afraid fomething might drop 
 down, which lhe did not care to lofe. 
 
 Not long after lhe pretended to fall 
 in Labour, and behaved herfelf in 
 the following manner : She Hood with 
 her Knees clofe together againft the 
 
 Seat 
 
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 Seat of an ordinary Chair, and holding 
 the upper Part of it faft with her Hands, 
 (he began to fquall and roar, and to 
 move the upper Parts of her Body in a 
 very ftrange Manner, twilling it from 
 one iide to another. I could not help 
 
 ng . 1 
 
 wondering at her prefling her Knees fo 
 clofe together, and not choofing ra¬ 
 ther to keep them afunder, to make 
 way for the Birth ; but doubtlefs Ihe 
 knew belt, what Pofture was the molt 
 
 iT' 
 
 advantageous for her lingular Deli- 
 
 i\ 
 
 very. 
 
 Mr. Howard and I, in the mean time, 
 converting together, and the Difcourfe 
 happening to turn upon Subje&s, 
 which made us laugh, the Patient 
 laugh’d very heartily with us, which 
 I thought fo extraordinary for a Wo¬ 
 man in her Condition, that I could 
 not forbear looking at Mr. Howard, 
 ~ who, in her Excufe, told me, that Ihe 
 
 had 
 
 
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 had an excellent Conftitution, and did ' 
 not matter her Labour-pains, a$ foon t 
 as they were over. Her Pulfe conti- ■ 
 nued all the while pretty eafy and '■ 
 quiet, excepting only, that when {he m 
 had been in Agitation for fome time, e 
 it went a little quicker. She was notf \t 
 ordered by Mr. Howard to fit down % 
 again in her Elbow-Chair, upon which * 
 he examin’d her, and fat himfelf down i 
 oppofite to her upon another Chair, i» 
 in a Pofture which appeared to me ve* 
 ry uncommon, and indeed not a little « 
 SufpicioUs : He made her put her 
 Legs between his, and with his Knees 
 he prefs’d hers clofe together. There 
 was a Imall Charcoal-fire lighted in 
 the Room, and they were both fitting 
 hard by the Chimney, after fucha 
 manner, that it was impoffible for me 
 to obferve diftin&ly what they were 
 
 doing, and in particular to mind the 
 
 Motions 
 
to, 
 
 Motions of Mr. Howard's right Hand, 
 t was now about a Quarter before 
 Twelve, when the Woman fell into 
 relh Labour-pains, beginning a* new to 
 :ry out very ftrangely. Mr. Howard 
 ontinued all the while to keep her 
 Cnees clofe together ; and holding his 
 lead againfl: hers, he took her Hands 
 nto his, whilft Ihe Hooping with her 
 • iead forwards, pufti’d her Back againft 
 he Back of the Chair with fuch Vio- 
 ence, that I was forc’d to hold the 
 Chair to prevent its going over. She 
 repeated the fame afterwards at two or 
 rhree different Times. Thofe Pains 
 Deing gone off, Mr. Howard examin’d 
 her again, and then fuffer’d me to do 
 the fame, which accordingly I did. 
 Upon touching her, I prefently per¬ 
 ceived fome broken Bones, and advan¬ 
 cing with my Finger, I difcover’d a 
 
 B flelhy 
 
flefhy Body, which with the Bones ' l 
 flood a little way out of the Orifice 2 
 of th t Vagina. The Vagina wasftrong- ' 
 ly contra&ed, clofely embracing the 
 Body, which prefented itfelf, and 
 which I conje&ur’d to be the hind 
 Part of a Rabbet, fl ripp’d of the Skin. ; 
 The extreme Drynefs of the Parts, 
 the ftrong Contraction of the Vagm, 
 and the Apprehenfion I was under, left 
 the Fore-Part fhould be in the fame 
 Condition with that I felt, made me 
 proceed with fome Caution, infomuch 
 that I refolved rather to wait the Re¬ 
 turn of new Labour-pains, than by 
 ufing any Violence, to tear and to in¬ 
 jure the Vagina. Having retired for 
 thefe Reafons, Mr. Howard ask’d me, 
 whether I would not extraCl it; and 
 upon my anfwering, No, he offer’d to 
 make it eafier for me, pretending, 
 
 that 
 
 
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 i^rhat his Fingers were flenderer than 
 •mine: Accordingly he examin’d her, 
 ;ind prefently delir’d me to touch 
 her again, which I did, and found the 
 -Body abovelaid advanced a little way ; 
 [hut when I laid hold of it, the Vagina 
 [•contra&ed itfelf fo ftrongly, that it 
 fnapp’d back again full the Breadth of 
 , a Finger. Upon this I would have de¬ 
 bited a fecond Time; but Mr. Howard 
 • oblerving it, urg’d me in ftrong Terms 
 to proceed. So I took hold again, and 
 to my furprize drew it out with 
 all imaginable Eafe. I found it to be 
 only the hind Part of a Rabbet bent in 
 a fingular manner, and again without 
 the leaft Drop of Blood, or any Moi- 
 fture. I was in no fmall Surprize at 
 : what I had hitherto feen and tranf- 
 : afted; and being previoufly told by Mr. 
 Howard , that the Head and fecond Part 
 B 2 
 
 were 
 
were dill behind, I would fain have s 
 examin’d her farther, to look for 
 them; but Mr. Howard would not per* 
 mit it, faying, That he would deliver 
 her of what was left, himfelf; in or* : 
 der to which he fat himfelf down be* i 
 fore her in the Pofture above defcrib’d. 
 
 I was very much ftartled at this; and t 
 the Woman foon falling into frelh La* : 
 bour-pains, I very earneftly renew’d 
 my Inftances ; telling him, that to 
 fearch her now Ihe was in Labour, 
 would beffc enable me to judge what 
 Condition the Womb and its Orifice 
 were in, and where the remaining Parts 
 of the Rabbet lay. But he remain’d 
 conftant in his Denial, and with a 
 fudden high Colour in his Face, an* 
 fwer’d me, By no Means ; alledging, 
 that Mr. St. Andre himfelf had examin’d 
 her but twice, and that therefore I 
 
[ >3 ] 
 
 light to be fatisfied with having ex- 
 rafted part of it my felf. 
 
 By this Time I began to conceive a 
 iolent Sufpicion of the whole Matter ; 
 at thought fit to conceal it, having 
 bfolv’d to behave my felf all along, 
 ke one, who had no Reafon to be 
 sHlatisfied. Nay, I feigned a great 
 irlompaiTion for the Woman’s Cafe, 
 tifhich gave Mr. Howard an Opportune¬ 
 ly to reprefent to me, that I could 
 : ot but obferve, what pains he mull 
 5 lave been at, and ftill took, and what 
 jcjhe poor Woman had fuffered ; and 
 r:iat he hoped His Majefty would be 
 o gracious, when all was over, as to 
 vive them a Penfion, there being ma- 
 ,}.y that had Penfions, who did not de- 
 ^rve them. I promifed him, that I 
 /ould not fail in my Report to His 
 
 Majefty, 
 
[ «4 ] 
 
 Majefty, to remember them in the bed 
 Manner I could. The Woman having, 
 in the mean time, overcome another l 
 of her pretended Pains, Mr. Homri 
 examin’d her a good while ; when of j 
 a fudden ftarting and making an Out¬ 
 cry, he a Ik’d, Did I hurt you ? And 
 {he anfwer’d. Yes. A little while af- L 
 ter new Pains following, Mr. Homri\i 
 faid, he hop’d the remaining Part 
 would now Ihortly prefent itfelf, 
 wherein alfo he was not difappointed; 
 for not long after he deliver’d her of 
 it, and prefented it to me. I found 
 it to be the Fore-part of a Rabbet, 
 looking a little redder than the hind 
 Part, which I had brought away from 
 her, otherwife without any Appearance 
 of Blood and Water, fomething warm 
 to the Touch, and fmelling very frefh 
 like a wild Rabbet, ftripp’d of its Skin 
 
 but 
 
[ 1 5 ] 
 
 nit a little while ago. There was 
 nothing remaining but the Head, In- 
 ellines, and Feet. 
 
 4 .; ; 
 
 Much about this Time Mr. Howard 
 iVas fent for to Dinner ; but I defir’d 
 hat he would ftay till the Woman 
 vas deliver’d of the remaining Parts, 
 
 : .nd then dine with me at the Inn, 
 which he confented .to. 
 i. • 
 
 f, This gave me an Opportunity of 
 • 'ending for my Companion, under 
 oretext of ordering the Dinner ; but 
 when he came into the Room, I de¬ 
 sired him in High-German , to mind 
 what Pofture both Mr. Howard and the 
 ^Patient were in, being that above de- 
 tfcrib’d, and then gave him, in EngliJIj, 
 -Orders, to provide a Dinner for us. 
 Having ail along exprefs’d a great Con¬ 
 cern 
 
[««] 
 
 cern for the Woman’s Condition, Mr. 
 Howard and Ihe, after fome other Pains, 
 and before the Delivery of the Head, 
 laugh’d very heartily, as did alfo the 
 Nurfe; tho’ I did not fee that they 
 had any Reafon for fo doing, unlefs 
 it was to divert themfelves with my 
 feigned Compalfion. 
 
 This Piece of Diverfion, and fome 
 other Pains being over, Mr. Homi 
 defir’d the Woman to lie down, which 
 Ihe did accordingly, and was then to 
 all Appearance pretty eafy. 
 
 About Two of the Clock I alk’d 
 Mr. Howard , whether he would go to 
 Dinner ; but he faid, it was time e- 
 nough ; and that if we ftaid a little 
 longer fhe would be, perhaps, deliverd 
 ©f the Head. 
 
 About 
 
[ *7 ] 
 
 fi 
 
 About half an Hour afrer (during 
 hkh Time, Mr. Howard fat by the 
 ^atient’s Bed-fide, and fometimes flip- 
 rated her Knees) perceiving, that the 
 tyfead was not in any forwardnefs, we 
 ^ent to Dinner. At Dinner Mr .How- 
 rd told me, that the Woman was a 
 reat Lover of fait Beef, and that 
 ®nth my Leave he would fend her 
 bme ; accordingly Ihe had a good 
 ®*iece fent her, tho’ it happen’d to be 
 Pretty hard, and was very much falt- 
 :d. 
 
 od We had not been long at Dinner, 
 iDUvvhen Mr. Howard’s elder Brother, whom 
 si had feen before in the Patient’s 
 aiiftoom, came in. I delir’d him to lit 
 s,down with us ; and the Difcourfe 
 quickly falling on the Woman’s Cafe* 
 
[»*] 
 
 I renew’d tny Promifes to remember 3 
 them all in my Report to His Majefty . 11 
 Soon after, Mr. Howard, Jun. being 
 fent for, went away, faying, he would 
 come again prefently, leaving his Bro¬ 
 ther with me. 
 
 Altho’ I at firft intended to flay 
 or three Days, yet confidering what s 
 had pafl, and refle£ling in parti¬ 
 cular upon the repeated Denials of Mr. % 
 Howard, Jun. that I fhould not ex- k 
 amine the Patient any more, I found '« 
 that it would be to no purpofe to con- 'it 
 tinue there longer. • 
 
 ■ • 
 
 However, I flill thought it bell to f 
 conceal my Sufpicion, and therefore 
 complain’d of a violent Head - achy* 
 which, I faid, made me defirous to re- ^ 
 turn to London with all poflible Speed, isi 
 
 Accordingly 
 
[ l 9 ] 
 
 -Accordingly I order’d the Coach to be 
 .'got ready. Mr. Howard, , Sen. continu¬ 
 ing to keep me Company at Table, I 
 Kfould not altogether forbear dropping 
 b l few Words of the Surprize I was in, 
 »vith regard, in particular, to the Dry- 
 ids of the Woman’s Delivery, and 
 |:he Unwillingnefs of his Brother to 
 j 5 -et me touch and examine her, after 
 jj he Delivery of the hind Part of the 
 [Rabbet, which I extracted my felf ; 
 K ,ut he anfwer’d, that he did not 
 j now what Reafon his Brother had to 
 :: en y me this Satisfaction. 
 
 Mr. Howard , Jun. not returning ac¬ 
 cording to his Promife, I went ftraight 
 tjvOhis Houfe, with his Brother and 
 jjdr. Brand ; but not finding him at 
 dome, and being willing to give the 
 £ Ionian fomething, we went up all 
 C 2 together 
 

 [ *>] 
 
 together to her Chamber, and found 
 Mr. Howard, Jun. with her, who told 
 me, as foon as we came into the Room, i 
 that he had juft now deliver’d her of * 
 the Head ; which he gave me to feel, 
 it being pretty duskilh, and as yet no ;d 
 Light in the Room. It felt warm,® 
 ^nd was a little Moift. '' 
 
 In 
 
 I forgot to mention, that before we 
 went to Dinner, I defir d Mr. , 
 
 to let me take the Skin, with the Fore 
 and Hind-part of the Rabbet, along ? 
 with me, to fhew them to His Maje*i 
 fly, which at firft he would not con-n 
 fent to : But having promifed him that;! 
 I would take care to fend them back 
 again, he permitted me to take them, 
 and fo I put them up in an Ox’s;! 
 Bladder, which I had fent for, and 
 turn’d the Inlide out. I now beg d 
 
 likewife 
 
[*«] 
 
 likewife the Head of him, and put it 
 up with the reft, in Prefence of Mr. 
 Brand , who was this Time fuffer’d to 
 come in. 
 
 I then told Mr. Howard of my In¬ 
 tention to return to London , and gave 
 the Woman fomething. But before 
 I went away, I deftr’d Mr. Howard to 
 ii lhew me fome of the Things, which 
 he had brought away from the Wo¬ 
 man before. He produced feveral Pie¬ 
 ces, which I look’d over in fome hafte, 
 being unwilling to ftay much longer, 
 i However, I ask’d what was become of 
 ('■the Stomach and fmaller Guts, to 
 s which he anfwer’d, that he did not 
 mind and preferve them. I likewife 
 i ask’d after the Guts and Feet of the 
 Rabbet I was taking with me: To 
 ,■ which he replied, that he fancy’d they 
 
[«] 
 
 were fallen to the Ground, and got 
 under our Feet. He fhew’d me among 
 other Pieces, the Back of a pretty 
 large Rabbet, wherein finding fome 
 Parts of the Inteflinum ReSium remain¬ 
 ing, with Pellets of hard Excrements 
 in it, I delir’d he would let me have 
 one; upon which he took one out 
 with a Pin, and prefented it to me in 
 a Box, faying, that he had given the 
 like to Mr. St. Andre , and Mr. Moly- 
 neux. He alfo read fome Papers of 
 his to me, concerning the Woman’s 
 Cafe, from the beginning of her Ill- 
 nefs, which being pretty well known 
 in Town, I did not much attend to. 
 I took my Leave of the two Brothers, 
 and left Guilford about Five in the 
 Evening, with Mr. Brand. We lay at 
 Cob bam, and came to Town on Monday 
 about One of the Clock, when I re¬ 
 pair’d 
 
 , 
 
 it 
 
 id 
 
 a 
 
 % 
 
 f 
 
 i 
 
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 pair’d forthwith to Kenfington , to make 
 my Report to His Majefty by Word of 
 Mouth. 
 
 Before I proceed to the Defcription 
 of the feveral Parts of the Rabbet, 
 which I took along with me, it may 
 not be amifs to take Notice, that on 
 Tuesday Evening, being at Mr. Jagerh 
 Houfe, Mr. Ziegler , his Man, who had 
 been at Guilford that Day, deliver’d a 
 MelTage to me from Mr. Howard , to 
 Jet me know, that fince my Departure 
 fte had been deliver’d of another, and 
 that he believ’d, ihe would have no 
 more. He withal defir’d me, as foon 
 
 aS P° ^ to ^nd back the Rabbet, 
 according to my Promife; which I 
 Wou d have certainly done, if I had 
 not receiv’d Commands not to part 
 Wl th it till further Orders. 
 
 For 
 
£ 
 
 t 2 4 ] 
 
 E8©skm* 
 
 
 For the Satisfaction of the Publick , I will ■- 
 here fubjoin the Anatomical Defcription *« 
 of the feveral Parts of the Sixteenth it 
 Rabbet , which I brought with me to si| 
 Town. 
 
 jrc 
 
 T HE Skin, as it lay extended, , 
 was eight Inches long, and four ; 
 and a half broad, where broadeft, un- , 
 equally torn with many Holes up and 
 down, and feveral Pieces of Fat, par- j 
 ticularly about the Extremities* ;j 
 
 The Head was four Inches and a 
 
 V 
 
 half long, from the Nofe to the Extre* 
 mity of the Ears, and cover’d with 
 the Skin, all over, except a fmall Bit, 
 which fhould have cover’d part of the 
 lower Jaw, but was tore off. 
 
 The 
 
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 The firft Vertebra of the Neck was 
 luxated, and the Mufcles about it la¬ 
 cerated ; but the third Vertebra was 
 cut in the Middle ; the tranfverfe 
 ProcelTes between the firft and third 
 Vertebra broke off, with the Mukles 
 round it, the Marks of a {harp Inftru- 
 ment appearing very plainly. 
 
 The Fore-part was two Inches three 
 Quarters along the Back-bone ; there 
 was fome part of the Abdominal Muf- 
 fcles left, which I found ripp’d open 
 lengthways : The Diaphragm was in its 
 proper Situation, doling the Cavity of 
 the Thorax ; but I found it neceffary 
 to open it, to look for the Heart and 
 Lungs, which I did in Prefence of 
 Dr. Steigertbal. I found the Foramen 
 Ovale as yet open ; and having took the 
 Lungs out and laid them in Water, 
 they fwam on the Surface ; there was 
 D fome 
 
fome part of the CEfopbagus left, moft fo 
 of the Ribs were broke along the ¥&• . jfm 
 tebra of the Back on both Sides, and R 
 fome of them in two Places, and the ia| 
 Mufcles about the Fraftures lacerated y.m 
 the Ligaments of the Vertebra were 1^ 
 very much diftended, and the Spina ^ 
 Dorfi itfelf broke in two Places. Some ^ 
 of the external Mufcles were likewife ;I j 
 tore, and the right Scapula a little fe-'J 
 para ted from the Ribs : Part of the : 
 right Fore-leg was broke off, and the ^ 
 Remainder of the Ulna and Radius 
 Rood out in two large Shivers ; the ^ 
 Mufcles thereabouts were tore. On | 
 the left Side, the Radius and Ulna were 
 entirely wanting, and even the lower 
 Part of the Os Humeri cut off, with : 
 fome fharp Inffrument, as it appeared^ 
 very plain, - 7 
 
 Two 
 
Two of the falfe Ribs were left with 
 the Vertebra of the Loins, which were 
 very vifibly cut off from the ffift, 
 5 with a fharp Inftrument, and all the 
 Ligaments of the Vt?rtebr<e very much 
 ' relaxed, that it was no difficult Mat- 
 ’ ter to bend it; there was a good Part 
 '; of the Abdominal Mufcles left with 
 thls > an< i they had been cut tranfverfe- 
 :Iti! iy. All the Abdominal Contents were 
 «l wanting, except the Urinary and Parts 
 ll ; of Generation, with about two Inches 
 of the Inteflinum ReBum. I found fe- 
 5i veral Pellets of hard Excrements, two 
 of which I took out, in Prefence of 
 113 ^ r * Amy and^ and obferv’d fmall Bits 
 . of Hay, Straw and Corn in them; 
 ,'fome Fat appeared in feveral Parts; 
 f the right Hind-leg was 
 
 out off near the Articulation, with the 
 Bones of the Tarfus, and a fmall Bit 
 1 of 
 
Tj r *« ] * 
 
 of Skin was left there. There was 
 likewife Part of the left Leg chopp’d 
 off, juft a-crofs the Bones of the Tar- 
 fas', the Tail was entire, foraewhat a* 
 bove two Inches long, and almoft co- j 
 vered with the Skin. 
 
Much ado about Nothing: 
 
 or, THE 
 
 Rabbit-W oman s 
 
 CONFESSION. 
 
 9 
 
 # % 
 
 (Price FouivPenee.) 
 
Much ado about Nothing : 
 
 Or, a Plain 
 
 refutation 
 
 O F 
 
 All that has been Written or Said 
 
 Concerning the 
 
 Rabbit-Woman 
 
 O F 
 
 godalming. 
 
 being 
 
 A Full and Impartial Confeffm 
 
 from her Ozon Mouthy and under her 
 Own Hand , of the whole Affair* 
 from the Beginning to the End. 
 
 Now made publick for the General 
 Satisfaction- 
 
 LONDON: 
 
 Printed for A- Moore , near St. Paul’s; 
 M*dcc.xxvik 
 
(?) 
 
 THE 
 
 PUBLISHER 
 
 TO THE 
 
 READER. 
 
 HE poor Wo¬ 
 man of Godai¬ 
 ming being now 
 the Topic of every 
 
 Con- 
 
CO 
 
 Converfation, and it be¬ 
 ing put to the gene 
 ral Vote, whether Rab 
 bits ft all be admitted 
 to our Tables, ay or 
 
 no; it has been thought 
 
 fit to trace the whole Af¬ 
 fair from its firft Origi¬ 
 nal; and to hear what 
 the poor Woman has to 
 fay for herfelf, at a time 
 when all Mouths are o- 
 pen againft her: in or¬ 
 der to which, the Pub- 
 lifher hereof has taken 
 
( 7 ) 
 
 indefatigable Pains to 
 bring the whole My Ae¬ 
 ry to light, by purging 
 the Woman in a proper 
 manner, and at proper 
 times, without the low 
 Artifice of Wheedling, 
 or the high Hand of 
 Threatning ; but by 
 touching her in the Ten¬ 
 der eft part, viz. her Con- 
 fcience; and extrading 
 the very Quinteffence of 
 the whole Affair in fuch 
 a manner, and method, 
 
 as 
 
( 8 ) 
 
 as will fet all Mankind ® 
 
 to rights in their vari- I 
 
 ous miftaken Notions of n 
 
 this unhappy Woman. ( 
 It is therefore to be 11 
 
 hoped, they will fuf- ' 
 
 pend their Judgments, ! 
 
 till they have heard 
 what fhe has to fay for I 
 
 herfelf; and that upon 
 a mature Recolle&ion 
 and Debate of the whole, 
 they will fet the Saddle 
 on the right Horfe, by 
 letting their Refent- 
 
 ments 1 
 
 Ci 
 
(p) 
 
 ments fall on the true 
 lmpojlors , or ( ~hiacks , and 
 not on a poor innocent 
 Woman, whofe Misfor¬ 
 tunes they have made 
 the Cat’s Paw of their 
 Roguery. 
 
 POSTSCRIPT. 
 
 T T was thought fit to 
 -* print this Confeffion 
 in pur is naturalibus, (i.e.) 
 in her own Stile and 
 Spelling, without any 
 C Amend- 
 
( IO ) 
 
 Amendment or Adultera¬ 
 tion, which would but 
 fpoi’l its natural Simpli¬ 
 city, and render it lefs 
 Genuine and Credible. 
 

 (II) 
 
 THE 
 
 * 
 
 Rabbit-W Oman s 
 
 CONFESSION. 
 
 Ndurftandin I hav bin 
 8211 mad a toun tauk oF, I 
 thinks it is tim For me 
 to vindikat my FelF, boo am as 
 innurFent oF what I am exkuz’d 
 with, as the child as is unborn. 
 I here I am mad a (adCretur of 
 G Z by 
 
( 12 . ) 
 
 by a parfel of furjohns, hoo, as k 
 all the world noes, ar nun of 
 the onniflifts men; but I hope 
 to clere myfelf, and fhaim them 
 all. ' * 
 
 Now you muff noe, as I beng, G 
 thof I la it as fhud not fa it, a 
 Woman as knows wats wat, I was j 
 alwas dilpektid by my naburs, 
 
 and in pertikulur Mr.-hoo 
 
 alwas told me I wos a Wuman 
 as had grate natturul parts, and i 
 a large Capajflti , and kapible of 
 beng kunlerned in depe Kun- 
 trivanfis ; and as how it I wold 
 be ruhd by him, and ufe Prick - 
 kawfhm, fum think mowt be 
 dun, and as how if I luit Raw- 
 bits, 1 Ihud navar wont: fo he 
 tretid me with as fine a Rawbit 
 as etfer 1 taflid in my born days. 
 Now you muft noe his Rawbit 
 
 had 
 
(n) 
 
 had an indiffrunt taft from ani I 
 had effer ete, for it wos not 
 by id, norroftid, nor fricumceed, 
 but toft up skin and au'i with its 
 eres priikt up. How etfer, thank 
 G—, I got it all down, and thore 
 I nevur taftid a delLkittur mor- 
 fil in my lyf; my huzbund had 
 giffen me mani and mani a Raw- 
 bit belore, but no comparrezon. 
 So I neffur attur vallid his Raw- 
 bits, no more then nutthink at 
 all, but alwas honed and honed 
 for my nabur’s Rawbit. But he 
 groing wary of fuplyng me, fobd 
 me otf, and fade as how I had 
 too much Jffucktation for him : 
 fo he brot me one Sur^ohn , and 
 another Surjobn, but nun of 
 thefe Rawbitts went doun lik 
 his, nor fpent hafe fo well : and 
 as tor takin them at the mouth, 
 
 I 
 
 
( H ) 
 
 I cood not; for evar fenfe 1 had 
 taftid his Ravvbitt, I tuk them all 
 tuther way, and I humbli kun- 
 feve it is the bell; way, efpechal- 
 ly if thay ar not flabby ; but if 
 thay ar flabby, thay ar not wurth 
 a fart. 
 
 Aftur this, an ugly old Gentil- 
 man in a grate blak wig cam to 
 me, but he had loft his Rawbit 
 by the way, for I cood fee nun 
 he had; and he onli tez’d me, 
 and tez’d me, but mad nutthink 
 of itj for he fumblid and fum- 
 blid, but to no porpos, for all 
 his grabblin and gropin figne- 
 fyd as much as nuthink. 
 
 Then thay brore a purblynd 
 Gentilman , hoo was for Jurvciy- 
 in me with his ‘Telluskop ; but it 
 was fo dark he cood not fee, 
 tho he got upon a gynt-ftool, 
 
 and 
 
( 15 ) 
 
 and had it not bin for anothur 
 Parfon more quick-fited then 
 himfelf, he had fartinly loft his 
 \Telluskop. 
 
 The next was a pritty Gentil - 
 marly hoo had a charmin Rawbit, 
 and more thon that plaid fivetly 
 on the Fiddil , and cut capors as 
 hy as ani think : He wood have 
 jumpt the Lord noes ware, if he 
 mowt hav had his will, and 
 fhakt the powdar out of his wig; 
 but I likt him the bettar for all 
 -that: if I cood ha my will, he 
 (hood be the onli man I wood 
 be kunfernd with. 
 
 As for the fcjuab Man, that 
 cry’d out a Sooterkin , a Sooterkin , 
 I dont lik him at all; for it 
 femes he wonted to mak a De*< 
 vils Damm of me, and peept, 
 and peept, the Devil peep his 
 
( I<0 
 
 Eyes out, in hops to fee a dan- 
 fing Devil cut a capor out of 
 my Belli, but he was difapin- 
 ted. 
 
 But the wurft of them all was 
 a fare-faced long no fed Gentilmcm, 
 wtth a Neck lik a Cram; he was 
 for purformin an oppurafhun , as 
 he call'd it, and tawkc ot making 
 Jnfijhuns, and Cefar turns, and the 
 Lord noes wat: but the othur 
 Gentilman wood not let him, 
 for which 1 fhall alwas pray for 
 um. 
 
 Thare was likwys a noutlam 
 difh furjohn, a fumbl-fifted fei- 
 lur, as was nevur cut out to han- 
 dil Gentilwimin, his fingurs war 
 all allruct, and he hurt me fo, I 
 nevur dezir he fhood meddl 
 with me ani mor as long as 1 
 liv. 
 
 After 
 
( i7 ) 
 
 After this, thay brot a powr 
 mor of furjohns, I nevur fee 
 fuch a mortuL lite of ugli fel- 
 lurs in my born days, peepin 
 and gropin, and fputturing out 
 haf Englifh , and haf Lattin ; nay, 
 it mout be La w-Lctttin for awt 
 I noe, for I nevur herd fuch 
 Gibburich fins I was born* 
 
 Durin this tyme, I was dele- 
 vurd, as they fay, of I dont noe 
 how mani Rabbitts; but I pn> 
 tefls I noe nothink of the mat- 
 tur, thay mowt put um thare for 
 owt I noe, for I cant tell no 
 mor then the child as is unborn 
 how I cum by um. If I did 
 brede um, the mor is my mif- 
 fortin, and I thinks I oft in kon- 
 fhuns to have a Penfhun to mak 
 ammends, and not to be mad a 
 maygam of, and a latfin-ftok, 
 D and 
 
( 18 ) 
 
 and lent from poft to pillur, to 
 banniurs, and to priliin, and 
 I dont noe ware: But thare is 
 nior lys it femes told of me, for 
 thay fay as how I wanted to male 
 a Kunny-fVorren of. my Parflj- 
 Bed ,. and as how I had agrid to 
 fuply the Poltururs with Raw - 
 bitts at an under pryfe : But this 
 is a ftori raifd by the Warrinors , 
 and I wood not have pepel let 
 themfelfs againfcRawbitts for my 
 lake, for I nevur did (ell a Raw- 
 bitt to no parfon watevur: for 
 how cood 1, wen the furjobns 
 run away with um as faft as tha 
 cum from me. If tha Jold um , 
 or eat um , the more fhaim lor 
 um ; but why Ihood the lawt be 
 lade at my dore, wen I am in- 
 nurfent of the mattur l 
 
 As 
 
o 
 
 ( 19 ) 
 
 As for the Portur of the Ban- 
 niur, he is a lying dog, and onli 
 wonts to mak a peni ot me. 
 
 As for bing fryted with Raw- 
 bins, , it is all a ly ; for the troath 
 is, I had ahvas an ugli wa ot 
 crying Odd Rawbitt me • at evii 
 turn. . 
 
 This ugli wurd I uzd in gelt 
 or arnift; for if I was angri witii 
 ani bodi, I wood cry odd Raw- 
 bit turn', or if I was gokin or 
 plain the fool with ani booi, I 
 had alwas Rabbitt urn at my 
 tungs end : fo that I had got 
 fuch a habit of uling mylelf to 
 this wikid wurd, that I was nik- 
 namd Rawbittin Merry iong 
 enuff afore this Misfortin hap- 
 ned. 
 
 D z 
 
 Now 
 
( 10 ) 
 
 Now I do follymly deklar, 
 that to the beft of my nolige, all 
 this has hapned to me for my 
 rafh wifhis, and profan fweann, 
 and faing Odd R a white me, 
 and fuch wikid wifhis; tharfor I 
 do befech all Criftiun peple to 
 tak worning by me, and not to 
 wifh rafh wifhis lor the futur, or 
 to (ware or curs, left tha be pun- 
 nifhid for the fam. 
 
 As for the fur johns, tha hav 
 mad a fine kettle of Fifh ; but 
 wat is that to me ? as tha bru 
 let um bak, I am refolvid to 
 clere mifelf, and let them git 
 off as well as tha can. 
 
 As for thard' barbirus Experh 
 ment wich tha intended, of fen¬ 
 ding a chirmi-fzvcpers boy up my 
 
 fit- 
 
(II) 
 
 fallopin Tubb , I thank um for 
 thare luff, but tha fhall play no 
 fuch triks with me : I noes tha 
 wood hang me if tha cood, but 
 I hops fum good Criftiun will 
 Hand in my gap, and not let a 
 poie Wuman be hangid for a 
 parfil of navs and fools. 
 
 I dos declare all this is the 
 trooth, and nuthmk but the 
 trooth, as I hops for mere;; and 
 I hops all good peple will tak 
 worning by me, and piti me, and 
 not fe me hangid. 
 
 And I do alfure all peple, 
 gentii or fimpl, that tha may 
 ete Razvbitts mornin, noon, or 
 nite, without any fere or dan- 
 gur for the futur; for all as 
 has bin fad, exept what I have 
 
 here 
 
( W ) 
 
 here written, is a damd kun- 
 founded ly. 
 
 postscript. 
 
 T HOF I be ripurzentid 
 as an ignirunt littirat Wu- 
 man, as can nethur rite nor 
 rede, yet I thank God 1 can do 
 both; and thof mahaps I cant 
 fpel as well as Turn peple as 
 fet up for authurs, yet 1 can nte 
 trooth, and plane lngltfh, wich 
 is mor nor ani of um all has 
 dun. As for fettin my Mark 
 rn a mour. it wos wen I wont 
 
 
VJ* 
 
 ( *3 ) 
 
 ihortift wa to work : if tha had 
 axt me to rite my name, I 
 wood hav dun it ; but tha onli 
 bid me fet my mark, as kun- 
 clooding I cood not rite my 
 nam, but tha was miftakn. 
 
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 THE SEVERAL 
 
 DEPOSITIONS 
 
 O F 
 
 Edward Coften, Richard Sted- 
 man, John Sweet apple, Mary 
 Peytoe, Elizabeth Mafon , and 
 Mary Coften ; 
 
 Relating to the Affair of 
 
 MARY TOFT, 
 
 Of Godaiming in the County of 
 Surrey, being deliver’d of 
 
 Several Rabbits : 
 
 As they were taken before the Right 
 Honourable the Lord ONSLOW, 
 at Guildford and Clandon in the faid 
 County, on the Third and Fourth 
 Days of this inftant Deccj/iber 1726. 
 
 LONDON ; 
 
 Printed for J. ‘Pemberton , at the Puck 
 in Fleet-Jlreet, over-againlt St. Dun- 
 Church. 1727. (Price 4^.) 
 
( 3 ) 
 
 
 DEPOSITIONS. 
 
 The Depofition of 
 
 Edward Coflen. 
 
 D'.otird Cofien of Godal- 
 ming in the County of 
 Surrey , Fra me work-Knit¬ 
 ter, maketh Oath, That about 
 one Month ago Jojhua Toft of 
 A i Co- 
 
 
( 4 ) 
 
 Godaiming aforefaid, Clothwor- 
 ker, came to this Deponent, 
 and asked him, this Deponent, 
 if he could fell him any Rab¬ 
 bits; and that this Deponent 
 fold him two Rabbits of about 
 a Month old at twice, to wit, 
 one Day next after another, tor 
 which this Deponent had of 
 him Three Pence each. And 
 this Deponent further faith, That 
 at the time the faid Jo[hua ‘Toft 
 came for the laft Rabbit that 
 he had pf this Deponent, he 
 asked this Deponent if he had 
 any more; and this Deponent 
 replied, he had one dead, and 
 that it died in the Night: and 
 that then the faid Toft asked 
 where it was, to which this De¬ 
 ponent faid, he had thrown it 
 
 away : 
 
( 5 ) 
 
 away: to which the faid Toft 
 replied, if you had not thrown 
 it away, it would have done as 
 well for me as a live one. 
 
 Edward Co pen. 
 
 jf ur apud Guldeford in Corn Surr * 
 tertio die Decembris Anno Doni 
 172 6. coram 
 
 Onflow. 
 
The Depofition of 
 Richard St e dm an. 
 
 R ichard Stedman of Godai¬ 
 ming in the County of 
 Surrey, Weaver, maketh Oath, 
 That jofhua *Toft of Godaiming 
 aforeiaid, Cloathworker came to 
 this Deponent’s Houle, anti en¬ 
 quired for Rabbits; to which 
 this Deponent’s Son faid he had 
 lome, but he thought them too 
 
 fmall; 
 
( 7 ) 
 
 fmall ; to which the (aid Toft 
 replied, fmall or what they 
 wou’d he mud have them; 
 and that this Deponent’s Son 
 went and fetched two young 
 Rabbits of about five Weeks 
 old, and he the faid Toft 
 bought one of them at that 
 time, being Saturday , this 
 Day Fortnight; and on th e Mon¬ 
 day then next following, he 
 came and bought the other, and 
 that he killed them each as foon 
 as he bought them in the Pre¬ 
 fence of this Deponent; and at 
 taking away the firft, he the faid 
 Toft faid, you need not let any 
 body know it, for I don’t know 
 but I may have occafion for the 
 other ; and accordingly had 
 the other for TwoPence, be- 
 
 caufe 
 
( 8 ) 
 
 caufe it was very poor and 
 {mail; and this Deponent faith 
 that one of the {aid Rabbits 
 was black, and the other grey. 
 
 Richard Stedman. 
 
 Jur' apud Guldeford in Coni Surr* 
 tertio die Decembris Anno Doni 
 1716. cor am 
 
 Onflow. 
 
 The 
 
 Cl 
 
( 9 ) 
 
 The Affirmation of 
 John Sweet apple. 
 
 J 
 
 Y O H N Sweetapple of Godai¬ 
 ming in tile County of 
 Surrey, Currier, being one of the 
 People commonly call’d Qua* 
 kers, folemnly affirmeth, Tnac 
 Jopua Toft ol Godaiming afore- 
 B faid, 
 
( 10 ) 
 
 faid, Clothworker, came to this 
 Affirmant on the feventh or 
 eighth Day of October laft, and 
 asfed to buy Rabbits; and that 
 this. Affirmant then fold him 
 a black Rabbit, above half 
 grown : And that the faid Toft 
 came again to this Affirmant 
 after his Wife was gone to 
 Guildford , and asked this Affir¬ 
 mant if he had any Rabbits; 
 to which he faid he had, but 
 they were fmall: to which the 
 faid Toft laid, he muft have 
 them, be what Size they would. 
 And this Affirmant then fold 
 him two Rabbits, one black, 
 and one grey; and this Affir¬ 
 mant took out the Entrails of 
 them before Toft took them 
 away. And this Affirmant fur- 
 
(II) 
 
 1* thfcr faith, That the faid Toft 
 told this Affirmant, that he was 
 then going to Guildford with 
 In them. 
 
 11 
 
 i 
 
 John SzveetapjHe, 
 
 This Affirmation was taken at 
 j Guildford in the County of 
 
 - Surrey the third day of De- 
 
 cember. Anno Dom 172 6. 
 
 lie; ¥** 
 
 k 
 
 ill 
 
 Onflow, 
 
The Deposition of 
 Mary Peytoe. 
 
 MART Peytoe, the Wife 
 1 V JL of John Peytoe of Go- 
 dalmng in the County of Sur¬ 
 rey, Husbandman, maketh Oath, 
 That Jofhua ‘Toft of Godaiming 
 aforefaid, Clothwoiker, came to 
 
 this 
 
( l 3 ) 
 
 this Deponent to buy Babbits 
 about five Weeks ago, and that 
 this Deponent then fold him 
 one or two of about fix or feven 
 Weeks old. And that at fe- 
 veral times in about ten Days 
 then next, this Deponent fold 
 the faid Toft feven or eight 
 Rabbits more of about fix or 
 feven Weeks old; and in parti¬ 
 cular, this Deponent fold him 
 two of the Rabbits, which he kil¬ 
 led and paunched in this Depo¬ 
 nent’s Prefence, and faid he 
 mull carry them to Guildford : 
 which faid two Rabbits this De¬ 
 ponent fo fold him the fame 
 Day that the Wife of the faid 
 jofhm Toft went to refide at 
 Guildford. And this Deponent 
 faith, That fhe gave him one 
 
M' 
 
 (14) 
 
 Rabbit of a Tandy Colour for 
 his Wife. 
 
 The Mark of 
 t&dary X PeytQt. 
 
 Jur' afnd Guldeford in Com' 
 Surr' tertio die Decembrii 
 
 AnnoDvm' v\z6. ceram 
 
 Onflow. 
 
( 15 ) 
 
 The Depofition of 
 Mrs. Mafon. 
 
 M R S. Mafon maketh Oath, 
 _ That wbilft Mary Toft 
 lodg d at her Houfe, which was 
 about three Weeks, that there 
 ^ was no Rabbits drefs’d at her 
 Houfe, or carry’d to Mary Toft 
 jo eat; and that flie heard the 
 laid Mary Toft fay, that (he 
 could not eat a Bit of a Rab- 
 
 bit, 
 
bit, was ftie to have a Thoufand 
 Pounds for fb doing. The De¬ 
 ponent further faith, That Mary J 
 Toffs Husband had frequent @ 
 Conference with his Sifter* who || 
 attended his Wife. 1 
 
 The Mark of 
 Mrs. EliZj. X ofMofon. j 
 
 / 
 
 jfur' apud Clandon in Com* 
 
 Surr * quarto die c Decembris 
 Anno 2 )om' 172 6. coram 
 
 Onflow. if 
 
( i7) 
 
 i 
 
 The Depofition of 
 Mary Co [ten. 
 
 M ART Coften of Godai¬ 
 ming in the County of 
 Surrey, Wfidow, maketh Oath, 
 •fhat about a Month ago fhe 
 was hired to Mary Tft, the 
 Wife of Jofhua Toft of Godal- 
 mtn l ^foreiaid, Cioathworker, 
 as a Nurfe, and that fhe tended 
 
 C her 
 
( IS ) 
 
 her as fuch till the time the faid ‘ f 
 Mary Toft, went from Guild- ^ 
 jcrd to London ; and that the 
 Husband of the faid Mar) Toft ^ 
 came often to fee his Wife, and ^ 
 that he was often with his own ^ 
 Sifter: And this Deponent fur- ‘ 
 ther faith, That to the beft of ^ 
 her knowledge fhe never faw any ^ 
 Rabbits brought to her the (aid - 
 Mary Ttoft to eat whilft fhe was ^ 
 at Guildford , nor any drefs’d in ^ 
 the Houfe, and verily believes ^ 
 there was not any drefs’d for or . 
 eat by her the faid Mary Toft 'f 
 during that Time: And further f 
 faith, That fhe, this Deponent f 
 herfelf, faw the faid Mary Toft • 
 delivered of Seven Rabbits of 1 
 different Colours whilft fhe was f 
 at Guildford , all which came 
 
 from 
 
 i 
 
V3 
 
 ( *9 ) 
 
 from her in feveral pieces, and 
 not whole : And that this De¬ 
 ponent heard that a black one 
 came from her at Godaiming. 
 And this Deponent further faith, 
 That as often as the faid Hu£ 
 band came to Guildford , this 
 Deponent never faw him de- 
 je&ed, or any ways concerned 
 for his Wife’s Misfortune : And 
 alfo faith, That during her at¬ 
 tending the faid Alary Toft , fhe 
 never heard her or her Husband 
 delire that any Mimfter might 
 be fent for to pray by her : 
 And this Deponent f urther faith, 
 That fhe does not know that the 
 faid Alary Toft was reftrained 
 from any Diet at any time whiift 
 fhe tended her; And that the 
 faid Alary Toft generally fed on 
 C 2 , ' fait 
 
( 10 ) 
 
 fait Beef, and drank fometimes Hr 
 flrong Beer, and fometimes lab! 
 fmall, and fometimes Wine: k 
 And this Deponent all’o faith, up 
 That during all the faid time fhe ie« 
 never heard Mr. John Howard fa 
 prefcribe any particular Diet for id, 
 her the faid Mary Toff, but ol 
 hath heard the faid Mr. Howard ion) 
 tell the People that came to fee lip. 
 her the faid oHdary Toft , that 
 he did not debar her of eating 
 any thing. And this Deponent 
 further faith, That about nine 
 a-clock this Morning Mr. How¬ 
 ard's Apprentice, one oHdel- ^ 
 lerfi, came to the Gate of ofMun- i 
 fled Farm in the Parifh of Go¬ 
 daiming, and enquired for this 
 Deponent, and there told her 
 that lie had heard from his Ma¬ 
 iler 
 
(II) 
 
 fter and her Dame, and that the 
 Rabbit was alive Yefterday, and 
 that he had heard my Lord On- 
 flow was to lend for her, and 
 he would have her ftand by the 
 Truth. To which this Deponent 
 laid, Ihe would, if the King was 
 to fend for her, and that fhe 
 would not do an ill thing for a 
 ole Lap-full of Guineas. 
 
 a 
 
 . 
 
 M 
 
 if 
 
 ffe 
 
 t 
 
 if 
 
 Tile Mark of 
 cfMary X Cojien. 
 
 Jur’ apud Clandon in Cm’ Surr y 
 quarto die Decemhis Anno Dorti 
 172 6 . cor ant 
 
 And 
 
 Onflow, 
 
() 
 
 And this Deponent further 
 faith, That to the bed of her 
 remembrance, fhe never faw the 
 faid oTldary Toft deliver’d of 
 any Guts belonging to the (even 
 Rabbits fhe faw her deliver’d of 
 as above. 
 
 The Mark of 
 nZMary X Co fen. 
 
 FINIS, 
 
 Cl 
 
Since the taking of thefe SDepofitions 
 Mr. Sr. Andre has thought fit to 
 publifh the following Advertifement 
 in the Daily Journal of Dec. 9. 1726. 
 
 H Aving contributed, in Come meafure, to 
 the Belief of an Impoftor, in a Narra¬ 
 tive lately publifhed by me, of an extraordi¬ 
 nary Delivery of Rabbits , performed by Mr. 
 Howard, Surgeon, of Guildford- and having 
 been fince inflrumental in difeovering the 
 fame ; fo that 1 am now thoroughly convinc’d 
 it is a mod abominable Fraud : I think my- 
 felf obliged, in ftrift regard to Truth, to ac¬ 
 quaint the Publick thereof; and that I intend, 
 in a fhort time, to publifli a full Account of 
 the D.fcovery, with fome Confiderations on 
 the extraordinary Circumftances of this Cafe, 
 which milled me in my Apprehenfions there¬ 
 of; and which as I hope they will, in fome 
 meafure, excufe the Miftakes made by my- 
 felf, and others, w'ho have vifited the Woman 
 concerned therein, will alfo be acceptable to 
 the World, in feparating the Innocent from 
 thofe who have been guilty A&ors of this 
 Fraud. 
 
 December 8. 1726. 
 
 St. ANDRE. 
 
An AC COUNT' of the Rabbetx, &c. 
 
 O N E Mary Toft, Wife to Jojhu'i Toft, Clothworker, at 
 Godaiming near Guildford in Siptcv, having fo carri¬ 
 ed on a 1 rick,as'to have been reported to have been 
 delivered of 17 Rabbets in Nov. 1726. and that the Perfon V 
 who attended her in her pretended Labours writ the follow¬ 
 ing Letter to London about ir. Nov. 9. IJ 26 . 
 
 S IR, Since I wrote to you , 1 have delivered the poor Woman of 
 3 n.ore Rabbets , one of them a Dun Rabbet, the lafl leaped . 
 
 -3 Hours before it died, As foon as the wth Rabbet was taken 
 up leaped the nth Rabbet which is now leaping . if you 
 have any curior# Perfon , that is pleafed to come Pofl , may fee 
 aw* l .r leap within her , and (hall take it from her if hepleafes , 
 r mch will be a Satisfaction to the Curious ; I do not know how 
 nary Rabbets may be behind. I have brought her to Guildford 
 for better convenience. I am, Your hum* Serv. &c« 
 
 The Truth of this whole Affair is as follows. 
 
 The Account the Woman pretended of the Matter 
 is this : That on the 23d of April laft, as Hie was weed¬ 
 ing in a Field, Ihe faw a Rabbit fpring up near her, after 
 which fhe ran with, another Woman, that was at work 
 juft by her ; this fet her a longing for Rabbits,being then, 
 as (lie thought, s Weeks gone with Child ; the other Wo. 
 man perceiving fhe was uneafy, charged her with longing 
 for the Rabbit they could not catch, but fhe denied it. 
 
 Soon after another Rabbit fprung up near the fame 
 Place, which (he endeavoured likewile to catch. ^ 
 
 § T‘he fame Night Ihe dreamt, that Hie was in a Field 
 u 'ith thofe two Rabbits in her Lap, and awaked wdth a, 
 fok Fit, and from that time for above 3 Months, fhe had 
 a con Rant and ftrong De fire to eat Rabbits, but being very 
 Poor and indigent could not procure any, and fo went on 
 till fhe pretended to be delivered of thefe Rabbits. 
 
 A thing of fo very odd a Nature as this was, foon 
 made a great Noife, inibmuch that tome eminent Surgeons 
 *ent from London by the Kings Order to examine into it. 
 
( 2 ) 
 
 Thefe Gentlemen wquld doubtlefs have foon perceived 
 the Fraud, and never have been milled in their Apprehen- 
 iions of the thing as they were, had they but had fair Play 
 in the Matcer, and Scope for examining into the Truth of 
 theFaft, but this no: being obtained by them, they began 
 toiufpett the Juggle in the thing, as Jong as the Woman 
 remained in the Country along with her own Acquaint 
 and therefore it was found entirely neceflary to have 
 
 tance, 
 
 her brought to London, and feparated from all of her own 
 Tarty, and to be attended by Perfons* who fhould L 
 have entire fair Room for all proper and requifite Exami- L 
 nation into the Matter. Accordingly fhe was brought to L 
 
 London, and lodged at the Bagnio in Lei ceftcr-Fields. 3 L 
 
 Here fhe dill pretended from time to time to be in La¬ 
 bour Pains, which flie had the Art exaSly to counterfeit, ,! 
 
 but being llriftiy fearcbed in the Matter, ’twas clearly 
 
 found, that nothing of what Hie pretended, did come from 
 her as a Birth ought to do. And what now gave ftill 
 more room to fufjpe& the Fraud, was her having got the 
 Porter of the Bagnio cl and tftinely to procure her a very 
 young Rabbets which ihe was to carry on her Trick withal, 
 as fhe had dene before, by dividing it into peeces, &foart*l 
 fully managing the Matter, as to feem to be delivered of fuch 
 peeces, for it was never found that Hie pretended to be de¬ 
 livered of any whole live Rabbit at once, notwithftanding 
 the Expreffions in the Letter above, and thofe artful Mo¬ 
 tions and Tortures fhe could feign exa&ly like Labour 
 Pains, and which were fo great, that they fometimes 
 fhook the whole Bed fhe lay on. :Jl { 
 
 Thele great Grounds to believp it a Fraud, made the 
 Fhylicians, who by the King’s Order attended her, urge 
 'her to confefs the Truth, and that if fhe did not, they 
 threatned that they would try a very painful Experiment 
 upon her, which fhould fully try the Truth of the Mat- 
 * er, whereas if fhe would ingenuoufly confefs the whole 
 Truth, fhe fhould not undergo it : 
 
 Thefe Threats made great Imprellions upon her, fo 
 that to avoid fo terrible an Operation, fhe confefTed the 
 Matter as follows. On Wed. Dec. 7. in the Morning {*%• 
 own’d. That fome time lince Ihe Mifcarried, after which 
 a Woman Accomplice told her, that if fhe would follow 
 her Advice, fhe need have no Occafion to work for her; 
 Living as formerly, for ihe would put her into a Way off 
 getting a very gqod livelihood, and fhould therefore expect. 
 Fart ot the Gain. Mary Toft ask’d what Way that was • j 
 1 be Woman told her, fhe would teach her how to pr e- 
 tend to be delivered of Rabbits , which Mary Toft after 
 wards thus put in Practice, and fo impaled on the World. 
 
( 3 ) 
 
 Thus the whole Secret came out, upon which this pre- 
 ided Rabbit Breeder was carried to Tot hill fields Bridewell 
 ire to have iuch Treatment, as Juch an uncommon bnl 
 'or lhall be thought fit by the Government to receive. 
 
 dchcrtifement. 
 
 |TERY proper fora NEW YEARS GIFT (or a IV». 
 • If Jtnt fit firiy Time) for all Ged Fathert , God Mothers, 
 ..’p t Relations, Friends , and Acquaintance to Give to Chi]* 
 n is the famous Anodyne Necklace, Recommended by Dr. 
 ■mbcrlen for Children s Teeth , Tits, Fevers , Convulfions , &c. 
 
 1 hefe incomparable Necklaces have been now long ex- 
 ienced lor theabfoJute Eafing Young Children in Breed* 
 and Cutring their Teeth without Pain or Difficulty, 
 a Secret S'yrnpathetick Influence they beat* over the 
 eth and Gums of Children, infomuch that their Efleft 
 aimed miraculous, Numbers of Children thought to be 
 the Brink of the Grave with Convulfions , Fevers , Fits, 
 
 • other Ailments all proceeding from their Teeth, have 
 p inftantly recovered after this Soverein Necklace w T as 
 Put about their Necks, and have fuddenly grown 
 toger and healthier than ever they were before, 
 rice 5 s. with Directions. Or 48 s. a Dozen to all Mer¬ 
 its and others who Sell them again, thefe Necklaces 
 filing very well, and for a very gfeat Price in the 
 and Weft Indies , as well as in mod Parts of Europe. 
 
 pShopkeepers in the Towns and Cities of Great Britain. 
 
 V s there is a very great Call for thefe famous Neck- 
 Ives, Notice is hereby given to any Pubiick Shop¬ 
 keepers in the Market lowns ©f Great Britain, Scot - 
 "J an ri Ireland, that take thefe Necklaces to fell again, 
 
 ; Ur an V Time whatever Necklaces are not Sold may be 
 toned again. Several Shopkeepers now fell fo many of 
 ’’ &U Year, as to pay a confiderable Part of their Rent 
 ae Profit accruing from ’em* Since therefore no Shop- 
 P er can be no Loler by them, this Notice is given for 
 r taking them in their Shops to fell again,in thePrin* 
 fiJl Cities and Towns of the 3 Kingdoms. 
 
 ■ othing can be fo convenient and pretty a Remedy for 
 Wren in the Extemity of their Pains as thefe Neck- 
 s > which have faved fo many from even the Jaws of 
 rii, when all Hopes of Life have been given over, 
 bid therefore it* can fcarce be thought how Mothers 
 iciently comply with their Obligation, who lets their 
 W go without one of th$fe Necklaces. 
 
Juft PufJiJhed, 
 
 NewSyftemof the GOUT, PJ 
 matifm, and Dropfy, demonftjai 
 i from Reafon, Obfervations, f 
 '^Experience. Nrte, In this Trearife j 
 GOUT is much more clearly treatedtj 
 hitherto has been done. — Alfo ; 
 
 A Treatife on the TOOTH ACH, fhewing how F 
 fans may immediately cure rhemfelves of the J 
 ' worft Hollow Rotten Tooth , and moft violent ragingTi 
 Ach, without ever Drawing the Tooth. 
 
 T HE New SHORT HAND fo much in Vogue fori 
 Writing a Great in a very LIT i LE TIM 
 
 A N Account (with the Pi&ure) of the PLACE \vh 
 the Swallow, Nig ningale , &c. Go when Abfent from 
 * A N Effay on the CJfe of Phyfical Necklaces for Qlnlkr 
 Teeth, Fits, Fevers, &c. from near 2000 Yearsa 
 
 T HE PRACTICAL SCHEME of the Secret Dilta, 
 A GLEET, and a Confutation Broke by Fafi Ln 
 Former Cures , Self'Defilements Salivations, Mercury, &c« 
 Shewing Perfons, iff, To uuderftand rightly their 0 
 Cafe, whether infeftod or not? If infected, to what Lief 
 their Cafe belongs? And if well after former Curfs. 
 
 Secondly , How to Cure themfelves of thefe Dilorders^j 
 out Sufp/wn, Confinement , or making known their CM 
 to any one. With fure Rules to know when the hm 
 of the Diftemper is carried off, and whether tnyM 
 lies lurking in the Body after any Former Cure. U 
 Thefe Books ar e Given Gratis Up One pair nf Stairs 
 the Sign of the above mentioned Anodyne Necklace tot 
 dren’s Teeth, over again ft Devreux Court without 
 And by the Author’s Servant R. Bradjhaw&t the Gwfljj 
 by Great Rufftl Street End, St. Giles's in the Fields. ■ 
 
 T HE Great DIURETICK Cleanfer of the Urir, 
 farts, and Reins, an Elixir that‘s brings away 
 Urine the Relicks of any Venereal Infe&ion, or otM« 
 ry after former Cure, as alfo Slime, Gravel, or ^ j] 
 
 - y ~ . 
 
 hinders the free coming away of the Urine, andlean 
 to come freely away. Price 5 s. the Bottle withDire<l 
 
 T HE Water that perfeaiy Cures thciJTCH, 
 Itchy Humor, without any Trouble, 1 s. oda j 
 
 T HE fine Cephalick TOBACCO, is. a ?*A 
 4 for 3 s. 6 d. And the famous L ozenges i0| 
 HEART BURN, 6 d, a Paper with Directions, » 
 Places above. F I N 1 S* 
 

 
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 Mr. St. A n d r e’s 
 
 CASE 
 
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 DEPOSITIONS, &c. 
 
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 case 
 
 AND 
 
 DEPOSITIONS 
 
 As Pub l ish’d in the 
 
 London Gazette of Fe¬ 
 bruary 1714.. and the 
 Daily Poll of March 4, 
 1727. 
 
 Credat qui vuh non Ego. 
 
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 L O N O N: 
 
 Printed for A- Moore near St. Paul's. 
 (Price 4 <0 
 
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THE 
 
 DEPOSITION 
 
 O F 
 
 Nathaniel St. Andre 
 
 OF the Parifh of 
 
 St. Martins in the Fields 
 
 * 3 
 
 CI-IIRURGEON. 
 
 HO fays, That on Saturday 
 laft, about Four in the Eve¬ 
 ning, he received by th cTen- 
 ny Voft a Letter fubferibed 
 tV. Bakir, defiring the De¬ 
 ponent to meet the Subfcriberat Nando's 
 Coffee-houfc, to confult him upon a Cafe 
 A where 
 
[ 6 ] 
 
 where a great deal of Skill was required, 
 or to that Effed : That accordingly he 
 went to the faid Coffee-houfe, which is 
 near St. c DanJian$ Church, and at the : 
 Door of the faid Coffee-heufe met a Man, 
 middle-fized, having on a light tyed fhort ft 
 Wig,a brownifh Coat with clofeSleeves, a ; 
 thin faced middle aged Man, who asked ; 
 the Deponent if he was not Mr. St. Andre? 
 To which the Deponent anfwcring, he 
 was, the faid Man faid, the Deponent only 
 could refolve him in a Cafe, and it was 
 but hard by, and defired the Deponent to 
 go along with him. Accordingly they 
 went into a Coach which had brought the 
 Deponent, and the Coachman, by the 
 faid Man’s Diredion, carried them a little 
 below the Hercules’s-Tiliars, where they 
 alighted, and the laid Man lcd-the Depo¬ 
 nent a little lower j they then turned down 
 on the Right Hand by an Oyl-Shop intoa 
 narrow Paflagc into a Street that leads ; 
 towards the Water-fide, there they turned 
 to the Left-Hand, and walked in that 
 Street about Two Hundred Steps, and 
 turnedon the Left into a Court or Alley, 
 and then on the Right-Hand into another 
 Court; as the Deponent beft remembers, it 
 being at that Time part Seven at Night, 
 and dark. In this laft mentioned Court, 
 the laid Man carried the Deponent to the 
 
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 C 7 ] 
 
 third or fourth Houfe, as he believes, on 
 the Left Hand 5 the Houfe had a mean Ap¬ 
 pearance, the Stair-Cafe was 'very ftrait, 
 and reached near to the Door of the 
 Houle. Being got up one Pair of Stairs, 
 the laid Man carried the Deponent into a 
 Room where a Woman was fitting, and 
 asked him to fit down, and went oat-, 
 laying he would wait upon him in a 
 « Minute, and accordingly loon returned, 
 i having in his Hand a Plate, and on it three 
 i Glail'es of Liquor, of which he gave one 
 to the faid Woman, took another hitti- 
 s felf, and offered the third upon the Plate 
 In to the Deponent, who would have excelled 
 i| himfclf from drinking it, but the faid Man 
 ::: cold the Deponent, he hoped he would 
 i not affront him, or Words to that Effect, 
 it Then the Deponent took the laid'Gials, 
 but finding the Liquor very drong and ill 
 •faded, he drank but very little of .it. 
 tjk Then they talked of the Cafe 5 the faid 
 i;: Man told the Deponent, that'the fed 
 <. Woman had the Foul Difcafc, and upon 
 i Examination the Deponent declared him- 
 i, felf to be of that Opinion, but the faid 
 Woman denied it } upon which the De¬ 
 li: 'ponent replied, he had no more to fay, 
 0 or lomething to that Purpofe, and the faid 
 Man gave the Dcponcnr a Fee, and then 
 the Deponent came home. The Dcpo- 
 A z neut 
 
[ 8 ] 
 
 nent further fays, that when he came in, 
 Mr. Martin's Wife, with whom he lodges, 
 obferved that he looked pale, and asked 
 if he had been fighting, or had been 
 robbed ? And to latisfy her it was not J 
 fo, he fhewed her his Watch and his 
 Purfe : She infilled that he looked like 
 Death, that his Nollrils were pinched, 
 and foon after the Deponent began to find . 
 himfelf giddy, and fhivering with Cold, 
 and defired his Bed might be warmed, for 
 he found himfelf ill, as fhc faid : That 
 he has ever fince continued very ill, and . 
 by what he is able to judge himfelf, by • 
 the Symptoms he has felt, as well as by 
 the Opinion of feveral eminent Phyficians r 
 who have vifited him, he muft have taken ■ 
 fome very ftrong Poifon 5 and he can ac¬ 
 count for no other Manner or Occalion 
 of his doing it, than in the Glafs of Li¬ 
 quor prefented to him as is above related: 
 
 Jurat. 9. The Febr. 
 
 1724-5. coram me 
 C%. Delafaye. 
 
 N. St. Andre . 
 
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 THE 
 
 DEPOSITION 
 
 >f 
 
 O F 
 
 l(l» 
 
 k Nathaniel St. Andre 
 
 o 
 
 Of the Parifh of 
 
 St. Martins in the Fields , 
 
 I! 
 
 i CHIRURGEON. 
 
 If 
 
 d'i T X J H O fays, that for a Twelve-month 
 dj VV before the Accident, which hap¬ 
 pened to him on Saturday the Sixthof 
 this Inftant FeLruary , as fet forth in his 
 Depofuion made on the 9th Inftant, he had 
 not taken any Mercurial Medicine whatso¬ 
 ever, nor any other Medicine of any kind, 
 except Afs’s Milk, Teftaceous Powders 
 : and Febrifuge Juleps, neither doth this 
 Deponent know that he had any Neceffity 
 or Occafion for taking any Mercurial Me¬ 
 dicine, or any other Medicine whatfoever, 
 B except 
 
[ 1 ° ] 
 
 except thofe above-mentioned ; this Depo¬ 
 nent* having been for fome time before the j 
 above-mentioned Accident in perfect good j 
 Health, unlefs that the great Fatigue in his j 
 Calling and Profeflion occafioned fome 
 times feverifh Diforders. This Deponent \ 
 further faith* that to the belt of his Know- j 
 ledge and Remembrance, he never took ; 
 any Mercurial Medicine or Preparation of 
 any kind whatfoever for above thefe eight 
 Years laft paft. 
 
 Jurat 20 die Feb. 
 1724. coram me 
 Geo. Tilfon. 
 
 N. St. uindu. 
 
C II ] 
 
 T H E Reafon that obliges me to 
 publifh my Cafe, is, that while 
 that Account was drawing up, which 
 was inferted in the Gazette of Tuesday 
 the 23d of February , I was fo very ill, 
 that I could not fatisfy the Phyficians, 
 who had the Goodnefs to attend me, as 
 t to feveral Particulars, which are as fol- 
 f lo w: 
 
 Saturday the 6th of February , about 1(1 Da J\ of 
 eight in the Evening, I felt the firft Ef- ^f e< Dli ' 
 feds of the Poilon (I had taken a little 
 before) which were a giddinefsand uncom- 
 ^ mon Coldncfs, with Hiccoughs, Pains, 
 and Contradions in the Region of the 
 Stomach, followed with a prefling Incli¬ 
 nation to Vomit, and not fufpeding the 
 true Caufe, going to Bed, I was indu¬ 
 ced to take a Julep, compofcd of aScru- 
 
 I ple of Spirit of Lavendar , four 'Drachms 
 of Syrup of white Foppies , with two 
 ( Ounces of Barley Cinnamon Water. The 
 Inclination to Vomit growing more ftrong, 
 s 1 foon threw up the Julep , with a great 
 Quantity of black and greenifh Matter, 
 and perceiv’d a detcftablc Tafte of Cop¬ 
 per in my Throat and Mouth, with a 
 burning intenfe Hear, which foon raifed 
 three large Blifters on my Tongue ; my 
 
 Vomit- 
 
 
 - 
 
id Day. 
 
 jd Day, 
 
 [ » ] 
 
 Vomiting continued all Night, with the 
 grcatcft Violence, and continued with¬ 
 out the Icaft Intermiflion, till two the 
 next Day, being Sunday the 7th, info- aa 
 much that at Times it depriv’d me of i 
 my Senfes, being frequently leiz’d with p 
 an univerfal Coldnels, and violent Con- a! 
 tra&ion of the Mufcles, of the Belly, ill 
 Thighs, Legs, and Feet. j® 
 
 Sunday the 7th, my Throat and Tongue 4 
 became fo fwelled and inflamed, that I 1 
 could not undergo the Efforts of the Sto- x 
 mach in Vomiting, without the greateft 
 Trouble and Pain 5 the Giddinefs in my is 
 Head increafed very much, with a vio¬ 
 lent noife in my Ears, and the Tafteand 
 Burning in my Mouth became intolera¬ 
 ble ; I found the Heat in my Throat 
 and Stomach extending it fclf in all 
 the Bowels, which by Night were be¬ 
 come fo painful, that I could not bear ; 
 the leaft: preflure on them : My Pulfe 
 was very low and the Skin parched and 
 dried. 
 
 I paffed the whole Night between the 
 7th and 8th, in Fainting Fits, and con¬ 
 tinual Inclination to Vomit, and began 
 Monday the 8th, by fix violent Purgings; 
 immediately after follow’d the Rupture 
 
 and 
 
[ 15 ] 
 
 and Dilatation of fcveral of the H<cmor- 
 r hoi hil Veflels, attended with a 'Proci¬ 
 dentia j thole Accidents were accompanied 
 with the return of the Vomiting, which 
 laficd from Nine in the Morning till Two 
 of the fame Day ; after which, my Tongue 
 and Throat grew black, more fwell’d 
 i and Painful : I was feiz'd with univerfai, 
 acute and burning Pains in every Joint, 
 but more tormenting in the Spine of the 
 
 i Back than in the lower Parts,! which be- 
 it gan to fwell from the Belly downwards, 
 
 elpccially the Scrotum , the Feet only be¬ 
 ll ing Oidematous. Of a fudden I was op- 
 11: prefled with a great Shortnefs of Breath, 
 it which lafted till the Evening, then the 
 !:; Diftinctncfs of my Sight began to fail 
 k me, Obje&s appeared double and encir- 
 eled with a deep green Colour ; at o- 
 
 ii thcr Times, they appeared inverted, dark 
 i and confufed. In the Middle of the 
 i Night between the 8th and 9th, I void- 
 t cd with the greateft Torture fome very 
 jf dark Urine. I was fo much exhaufted 
 
 after it, that I fainted away, and notwith- 
 ftanding the Ufeof the ftrongeft Volatiles, 
 it was above three Hours before I could be 
 recover’d. From thatTimel remained more 
 weak and faint, with univerfai convulfivc 
 Tremblings and Spalms, and a ftrong 
 Palpitation of the Heart. The moll cruel 
 
 Symptom 
 
4*b Bay. 
 
 5th Day 
 
 C 14 ] 
 
 Symptom was the great Third, and at the 
 fame Time the Horrour and Dread I had 
 for the taking of Liquids, equal to what 
 is deferibed by one under the mod dread- f 
 ful Symptoms of an Hydrophobia •, the 
 Pulfe was hardly to be felt the whole 
 Night, and the Skin became more hard 
 and dry. 
 
 fi 
 
 Tuefday the 9th in the Morning, the 
 Pains in my Limbs were more acute 1 
 and extended, fo as to occaHon a Sore- - 
 nefs in all my Flefli, I Ipit tough Phlegm, * 
 and my Throat and Mouth were covered 
 with Efchars and Sloughs, attended with 
 a Stench, as in a Sphacelus ; however, - 
 the dread of raking any Liquid was io 
 great, from the Pain 1 fuffered on that Ac¬ 
 count, that I could not be prevailed upon 
 to ufe a Gargarifm, to avert the impend¬ 
 ing Danger of a total Mortification of 
 thole Parts. I palled that Night as the 
 lad, and voided fome Urine, with the 
 fame Pain and Accidents as before. 
 
 IVednefday the 10th, the Heat and 
 Pain of my Bowels and Stomach fome* 
 what abated, after two Purgings, which 
 depreffed me very much all the other 
 Symptoms remained, the Naufea and In¬ 
 clinations to Vomit having continued 
 
 more 
 
 4 
 
[ ir ] 
 
 more or lefs, from the Beginning. { 
 palled the whole Night in the greareft 
 Anxieties, the Palpitation and convulfive 
 Spafms remaining llrong. 
 
 Thurfday the r ith, I found fomc little 6t h Day. 
 Abatement in the violence of the pre¬ 
 dominant Symptoms, but I was fo very 
 weak and low, that 1 hardly remember 
 what happened to me, that Day, and the 
 i Night following, neither can I give any 
 . Account of the Tranfaftions of the Frl 
 day, Saturday, and Sunday following, $ 
 having been all that Time fo weak, deli¬ 
 rious, and low, that 1 could not attend to 
 any Circumftances which then happened. 
 
 Monday the 15th, I difeharged fome 
 j, Biood at the Mouth and Nofc, but was '° ,h 
 not altogether fo low nor weak. 
 
 Id; 
 
 1 . Tuefday the 16th, I was feized with 
 i rac king Painsin the Bowels,which brought 
 on a great Tcnfion of the Belly, and a 
 flrongcr return of the difficulty of Breath- 
 j 1 In the Night I had two Evacuations 
 
 (green and porraceous, as were all the 
 former) which left me in the lowcft State 
 that human Nature can be fuppolcd to 
 Survive. 
 
 >• 
 
 V hat 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
[ J<S ] 
 
 thDay. What I remember of the next Day the 
 17th, is, that the Sloughs of my Throat, 
 Tongue, and Cheeks, began to loole in 
 my Mouth, fome of them having fepa- 
 rated with a confiderable Hemorrhage; it i 
 was impoflible for me either to fwallow 
 or difeharge my Spittle, fothat I was in 
 perpetual Danger of being luffocated; - 
 which was not a little augmented, by the 
 preffing Inftances that fome of the Phyft- z 
 cians made, for me to keep a Gold Ring 
 in my Mouth. • k\ 
 
 ; i 
 
 jth Day. Thttrfday the 1S th,the Sloughs continu’d ,| 
 to feparate, and the whole Coat of the 
 Tongue came of, with fome Lois of 
 Blood, but the burning pain of the Parts 
 was fomewhat abated, and I fpit more 
 freely, but inftead thereof {here was a 
 great Sorcnefs and Rawnefsot thole Parts, 
 from which the Sloughs had feparated. 
 
 1 flept fo, for two Hours, which was the 
 firft Moment 1 (hut my Eyes to reft llnce 
 the Accident. 
 
 14th Day. Friday the 19th, the Ulcers began to 
 clean, the Sloughs ftill leparating from 
 all the parts of the Mouth and 1 hroat> 
 the pain in fwallowing was fomewhat 
 abated, although I could not take, in the 
 Space of 24 Hours, the Quantity of halt a 
 
[ 17 ] 
 
 Pint of the thineft Broths: From this 
 Time the Symptoms began vifibly to a- 
 bate, and the Ulcers to incarn, and fill 
 up; the fpitting decreafing; the Nights 
 ftill were bad; the Fever confiderablc, 
 with Remilfions ; but the Convulfive 
 Spafms and Contra&ions not fo violent - , 
 the Difeaf'e having been from this Time 
 upon its decline. I lhalI not lengthen this 
 Narrative, only obferving, that I have not 
 yet been able to fwallow any folid Food, 
 not even Jellies, remaining with thegreat- 
 l t caknefs > and in great Meafure with 
 r„ Lo ^°f tl>c Ufe of my Legs, which I 
 hope, by rhe Afliftance of God, by De- 
 greesto recover. 
 
 r T°, dlc ^eft °f nay remembrance the 
 JL S , a ?P e ” d . as a ^ ove related > but I am 
 : * \ n fixln S t,le D ays by thofe who 
 
 conftantly were about me, being verv de- 
 
 :^ a ; n r thatP n ° ,nt: No doubt ft?*, 
 ted v i , Ircum ^ ances may be here ornit- 
 fir ’ h ’ cl ? could not but cfcape my No- 
 
 be 3S t!lis Account may 
 
 e, myVVeaknefs is mil fo great, it is all 
 
 neither ° W n ab e t0 bdng inro this Form ; 
 ftriftlv r| Wl n ’ 1 h ° pc ’ be ex P e &ed I can 
 and D p d n etC ™ ine thc Duration, Violence, 
 
 as if r f C , nd , anCe of the fcvcral Symptoms, 
 bad keen the Oblcrver only ; the 
 
 C naoft 
 
[ >8 ] 
 
 moftt can recollea, is, that the'Vomiung 
 continu’d by Intervals from the h,ft Day 
 of the Difcafc to the third Day, and c 
 Naufeas and Reachings to the 6th Day. 
 
 tin 
 
 ijms 
 
 (tic 
 
 The Thirft began with the Difeafe, and jj|o 
 did not abate till the 13th Day. 
 
 The 2d Day the Skin became parch d 
 and dry and continu’d fo to the 13th 
 Dav o/the Difeafe; during all that Time 
 nof having had the leaft Marks of Perlpr- 
 
 ration or Difpofuion tofweat. 
 
 Tlit 
 
 lie 
 
 The Third Day 
 Symptoms. 
 
 brought on 
 
 tliefe 
 
 Ik 
 
 The Fever, which increafed to the 9th 
 Day, with irregular Paroxiftro the whole 
 Time, there being fonre returns 
 the 20th. 
 
 hi 
 
 Tit 
 
 k 
 
 
 The Shortncfs of Breath, which by In- | ai 
 tervals continued to the 12th or 13 I4, 
 
 kit* 
 
 Day. 
 
 
 The Accidents of Urine, which * 4 
 not abate till the ?th> it being the D ; 
 Day before they entirely cealed. 
 
 The 
 
[ 19 J 
 
 The Palpitation of the Heart, and Con- 
 vulfive Spa I'm s, the firft continued only 
 during the Paroxifms of the Fever, viz. 
 to the 9th Day of the Difeafe, the latter 
 held, without Intermillion, till the 14th 
 Day of the Difeafe, and did not entirely 
 ceafe till a few Days ago. 
 
 The Swellings, which were quite dif- 
 perfcd by the 71 h Day. 
 
 The Diforder of Sight, which iafted 
 till the 9 th Day. 
 
 The burning Pains in the Joints, which 
 were felt till the 15 th Day. 
 
 The fourth Day, the Spitting began, 
 and continued till the 6th, then ccafed, 
 and returned by Fits, being mod confide- 
 rable after the falling of the Sloughs, which 
 began the 12th Day of the Difeafe. 
 
 I can give no Account of the Changes 
 of the Pulfe, any more than what is faid 
 above j in my lucid Hours. I often at¬ 
 tempted to feel it, but could not enumerate 
 above live or fix Pulfations, being inca-^ 
 pablc to fix my Attention any longer. 
 
1 
 
 [ 10 ] 
 
 It would be very impardonable in me, sk 
 fhould 1 not in this Paper, with the ut- n 
 moft Duty and Veneration, exprefs my xitr 
 mod humble and fubmiflive Thanks to his L 
 for the extraordinary Marks of m 
 Goodnefsand Favour, which he hath been nil; 
 gracioufly pleafed to fhew me under my hf 
 Affliction i and muft here alfo return my ads 
 Thanks to His Majejl/s Minifcts, and all fecy, 
 thofe of the Nobility and Gentry , who 
 have given me many Inftanccs of their ,W 
 Protedion and Afiiftance upon this Oc- A 
 cafion, for which 1 fhall ever have the 
 greateft Senfe of Gratitude , the affectio¬ 
 nate Concern of my Friends for my Mis. 
 fortune, and the Pains which they have 
 been at to juftify me from the Afpcrfions 
 of fuch unhappy Men, as may delight in 
 the Aggravation of the Sufferings of the 
 afflided, will never be erazed from my 
 Memory : But I muft always, and in a par¬ 
 ticular Manner acknowledge the Obligati¬ 
 ons I have to Dr. Steiger tail. Dr. Cock- 
 burn, Dr. TeijJiir, Sir Hans Sloan and 
 Richard Manningkam for the kind Am- 
 fiance I have received from them, and for 
 the Pains they have been at to extricate 
 me from the greateft Torments and In¬ 
 juries, that can perhaps be fuffered by 
 human Nature: And as 1 thinkthefe In¬ 
 juries could be of little Service or Satis¬ 
 faction 
 
C ] 
 
 faction to thofe who thought fit to infli£l; 
 them on me, their Folly Teems to deferve 
 rather the Pity than the ReTentment of 
 my Friends; as to my own Part, I do 
 forgive them from the Bottom of my 
 Soul 5 and I do fincerely wifh, that it may 
 never be their hard Fate to fall into the 
 Hands of fuch wicked Men as know not 
 Mercy. 
 
 Ntort hum her land- Court, 
 March the iff. 
 
 M. St. Andre. 
 
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 3 
 
LETTER 
 
 F R O M A 
 
 Male Physician 
 
 In the Country, to the Author of the 
 
 FEMALE PHYSICIAN 
 
 la LO NVO N-, 
 
 Plainly Shewing, 
 
 That for Ingenuity, Probity, and extraordinary 
 Pfodu&ions, he far furpaifes the Author of the 
 NARRATIVE. 
 
 To which is added, A Short Diflertation upon Generation, 
 whereby every Child-bearing Woman may be farisfied, 
 that *tis as impoiliblc for Women to gererate and bring 
 forth Rabbets, as *tis impoffibie for Rabbets to bring forth 
 Women. 
 
 ifolti Leones, Blephantes , Canes, Fetes , ahaque Animalcuta qit* hr- 
 tra Vtevum pariunt, ex Geniturd hum and, nulld Putrefa&ionrs aut 
 Corruptions Specie , aut ullis imaginantium Matrum viribus in Ute- 
 to Muliebri pzaeran pojfmt, Lamzweerde. 
 
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 LONDON: 
 
 Printed for T. WA RNER, at the Blackgoy in 
 Patcr~N>ftcr-Row. 1725. JZ . 
 

 A 
 
 LETTER, &c. 
 
 HEN Authors conceive, 
 undergo Labour-Pains, 
 and bring forth, they 
 may be laid, in fome 
 meafure, to be deliver’d 
 of the Brats of their own 
 or their Neighbours Brains; and as 
 they are ingenious in delivering them- 
 ftlves oi thele, or ingenuous, in deal¬ 
 ing juftly by thole, they may, with 
 Rea Ion, expedt to be prais’d or de- 
 fpis’d ; For all Authors muft expedl 
 Authors Fare. 
 
 It would be vain to expert any 
 other Fate, fince all Mens Labours 
 
 A 2 (hare 
 
( 4 ) 
 
 (hare the fame; for when given to 
 the Publick, they are fubjetled to the 
 publick Cenfure, and muff Hand or 
 tall by their own Worth, or the Rea¬ 
 der’s Fancy, fo receive Commenda¬ 
 tion or Condemnation, as Judgment 
 or Caprice prevail. 
 
 No w, Sir, tho’all judicious Wri¬ 
 ters (as you are) be careful to avoid 
 thole Impertinences which they know 
 would be taken Notice of and ridi¬ 
 cul’d; yet are there not wanting fome 
 who will write in Ipite or Nature, 
 and being {hallow-pated Things them- 
 felves, puff’d up with Self-Conceit, 
 will obtrude on the World wHat they 
 have taken upon Ti uff, and even in 
 the moll ablh'ufe Secrets or Nature, 
 of which they know nothing, they 
 would appear to be mo.t ingenious, 
 and have every one giye Credit to 
 what they have g oisly I wallowed, fo 
 would pals for .Vu n or irngniy know¬ 
 ledge, by letting up tor Au hors of 
 rare, Itiange, ana exaaoiduiary Foole- 
 
( 5 ) 
 
 ries, &V. which only afford Mirth to 
 the Wife. 
 
 So m e Authors admire what others 
 make a Jeft of; and fome are as rafh 
 in publiihing, as in prating; fo fplit 
 upon the Rock of Ridicule. Some 
 again, more cautious, weigh well the 
 Effects andConfequences of their Wri¬ 
 tings before they lay them open to 
 publick Cenfure, wifely confidering, 
 that a Hurry in the Execution of any 
 thing, elpecially in the publiihing of 
 Books, often produceth galling Re¬ 
 flections. 
 
 Those Authors who write fen- 
 fibly, purely, and naturally, exprels 
 themfelves modeftly, let nothing 
 elcape them but what is judicious, 
 real, and folid (as you have done) may 
 always expect to be efteem’d by Men 
 of Senfe. 
 
 Some Authors write to make their 
 Readers laugh ; others write only to 
 be laugh’d at. I muft own l cannot 
 exprels to you the Indignation with 
 
 which 
 
( « ) 
 
 which I have read fome Mens Works, 
 full of unintelligible Jargon, neither 
 Greek nor Englijh , which, for a kern¬ 
 ing Garnilh, they crowd in at a Ven¬ 
 ture, to amufe their Readers, that, 
 (as Erafmus has it) they who under- 
 ftand them, may be tickl’d with them, 
 and thofe who do not, the lei's they 
 know, the more they may admire. 
 
 Nor can I tell you, Sir, how 
 much I was affe&ed, when 1 perufed 
 a certain Author, who had ftudioully 
 fcrap’d together all the rare and ex¬ 
 traordinary Events, the ftrange and 
 fupernatural Births, and other Acci¬ 
 dents, out of Tliny, Tinto , <Dc laVal, 
 Gonfales , MandeviUe 5 and other fabu¬ 
 lous Authors, and fuch romantick Re¬ 
 lations as had no Ground in Truth, 
 only to gain a Name by impofing on 
 the eafy Belief of the People. 
 
 Now, Sir, as you have induftri- 
 avoided all thefe Extremes, you 
 merit the Applaufe of all Ranks, but 
 in a more ipecial manner, of the 
 
 Fair 
 
Fair Sex, whom you have laid under 
 Obligations to fpread your Fame and 
 perpetuate your Memory, asthe’moft 
 accomphlh d Female Thyfaan, and 
 
 moft judicious Author any Age could 
 ever boaft of. 
 
 As fuch, Sir, give me Leave 
 amongft the Crowd of your Admirers’ 
 
 to congratulate your Renown, and ap- 
 plyto you upon an extraordinary Birth 
 of Rabbets: This being a very rare 
 Lvent in your way, which I hear has 
 puzzled many not unlearned Perfons 
 and confounded the Multitude * it is 
 to be hop’d, Sir, fince no body has 
 hitherto pretended to account for it 
 that you would be fo good as to ac¬ 
 count for this remarkable Delivery 
 as you have elegantly done for many 
 vet more remarkable Events in your 
 lime: Tell us particularly, Learned 
 air, how thefe Rabbets were genera¬ 
 ted, and whether you think they were 
 ftopp d in the Fallopian Tubes, as his 
 Majefty s Anatomilt has wifely hint¬ 
 ed \ 
 
 a 
 
( 8 )( 
 
 ed ; or whether you think they were 
 bred in Utero, and forget not to tell 
 us, how they came there; for out of 
 the Uterus he certainly brought forth 
 the Head’ of a prseternatuVal Rabbet,* 
 with the Furr on it, and delivered he* 
 of the entire Trunk of a Rabbet ft'ript 
 of its Skin, of about Four Months 
 Growth; and pray, dear Sir, give us 
 your Opinion of the Tlacentas left be¬ 
 hind, or, as he calls it, retain’d, and 
 whether they will be the Caufe, as he 
 fays, of this Woman’s Death, or not 
 You may perhaps wonder* what’ 
 Impertinent prefumes to difturb yoiif 
 Repofe, and dares thus to addrefs you, 
 being an utter Stranger to you. But 
 this will foon ceafe, when I tell you, 
 I- believe that none but' one of youf 
 profound Penetration, and recohdite 
 learning, could folve thefe knotty 
 and difhcult Queries, and fully fatisly 
 us upon thofe Heads : None but one' 
 who has obliged the Publiek with Ki£ 
 excellent Works, wherein lie has affu- 
 

 ( 9 ) 
 
 red them, that he has acquired a per¬ 
 fect Knowledge of the Myfteries and 
 Secrets of Nature in all Cafes incident 
 to the Female Sex; one who infalli¬ 
 bly cures all their Difeafes, difcovers 
 real Conceptions, whether of a Boy 
 or Girl, and is Mafter even of the 
 greateft Arcana of Nature. One who 
 can rectify Barrennefs itfelf; One who 
 has brought Midwifry to Perfection; 
 and by long Experience in bringing 
 Sooterkins jult like Moodiwarps, b'c. 
 into the World, has accounted fo ra¬ 
 tionally for Dutch Womens being more 
 iubje£t to bring forth thefe Animals 
 than any others. See Tage 365, 366. 
 One who has fo ingeniously accounted 
 for numerous Conceptions, but more 
 particularly for the Story of the Coun- 
 tefs Margaret at L>ofdun ) who is laid 
 tOjhave brought forth Three Hundred 
 and Sixty Five Children at one Birth. 
 See Tage 358, 359. One who has to 
 cleverly and nicely accounted for Wo¬ 
 mens Conceiving, without anv virile 
 
 B ” Help 
 
( ) 
 
 Help or Affiftance. See Tage 378, 
 
 5 To whom could I apply with 
 more Reafon and Juftice, .upon fuch 
 an extraordinary Event, than to you, 
 Learned Sir, who are daily conver- 
 fant in deep and profound things of 
 this Nature 3 and from w 7 hom could 
 I hope for any fatisfa&ory Account of 
 this extraordinary Delivery, fc. but 
 from yourfelf, fince you are the only 
 Perfon alive who ever attempted to 
 account for Extraordinaiies of this 
 
 kind. . ,, 
 
 And left your accounting for this 
 
 extraordinary Delivery of Rabbets 
 fhould chance, when you offer it to 
 the Publick, to be iufpeded as ipu- 
 rious, or to be an Impofture, a Vice 
 very frequent in our Days (for lome 
 do palm things 011 the World in other 
 Mens Names ) I would earneitly beg 
 of you, to hand it to us with the lame 
 Spirit, Skill and Dexterity , you did 
 the former, that when compar’d, they 
 
( 11 ) 
 
 may tally, fhew themfelves both of 3 . 
 Piece, and fimfhed by the fame Artift ; 
 and if by fome mafterly Strokes of 
 your matchlefs Pen, you fhall be able 
 but to prove equivocal Generation, 
 and that the Woman did generate 
 thefe Rabbets, ens mihl magnus. Apollo. 
 
 But pray, Sir, forgive me, now 
 when I think on’t, I fhould have flopp’d 
 before this, left I fhould chance to give, 
 a Handle to others to accufe me of 
 what I havereprehended in them; for 
 I have heard it without Doors, that 
 fome, and not a few, doubt of the 
 Fad, as I alw'ays did, for which I 
 could, were it neceflary, give Twen¬ 
 ty weighty Reafons as big as Plumbs, 
 of which I can only ipare one at pre-» 
 fent, and that is from a Defed in Ra> 
 tipnals, becaufe it does not fall within 
 the Sphere of my grofs Apprehenfion, 
 and my dull and weak lntelled not 
 being able to comprehend the Equi¬ 
 vocal Generation, 1 do doubt of^ the 
 Fad- and fhould do, even tho ti e 
 B 2 Maift 
 
( I'*) 
 
 Maift Johns in your Country fhould 
 pronounce the common Malediction, 
 
 He that doubts jhatt be damnd. 
 
 Now, whether poffible orimpof- 
 fible, whether FaCt or iiot ? is not the 
 prefent Queltion : It is all one in the 
 Greek , and I prefume, with you, moll 
 accompl idl’d Sir: For fuch is your ( 
 tranfcendent Genius, that you have i 
 cleverly accounted for as extraordina- if 
 ry things as this; and who doubts but ( 
 that you can account for all the My- 
 fteries in Nature; even all things, and 
 a great many more. Go on then, 
 fweet Sir, and fatisfy the World for 
 once, that there is a Man who can ac¬ 
 count for Non-Entities, as if they 
 were real Beings. 
 
 I n the mean time, forget not to 
 tell us a> few of your Rarities and line 
 things over-again, for if you won’t, I 
 mult. Ergo. Let a fhort Sketch by 
 way of Parallel then fuffice, till ano¬ 
 ther Opportunity. 
 
 The 
 
( U ) 
 
 The Author of the Narrative 
 brought away the 15th Rabbet out of 
 the Womb of Mary Toft , a forry Wo¬ 
 man ; you 5 Sir, brought away a Soo- 
 terkin, the likeft of any thing to a 
 Moodiwarp, from the Womb of a 
 £ 2 htch Woman. Of the Truth of thefe 
 
 ftrange things you was afterwards fo 
 ff well allured, that you always as much 
 expeded the thing T)e Suyger , as the 
 Child it felf. Yours were monftrous 
 I little’ A nimals, thafe run away from 
 ® you like Daemons, and thofe none of 
 it the better Sort, which you took them 
 i for the firft time. Tage 575. He 
 gives Courfes of Anatomy, and will 
 k Shortly read Ledures upon Seventeen 
 preternatural Conies, and has promt- 
 led, that the Account of the 18th Rab¬ 
 bet lhall be publifh’d by way of Appen¬ 
 dix to the Short Narrative: You give 
 Courfes of Midwifry, and have often 
 given Ledures on Conies, and may, 
 if you pleafe, reveal to your Pupils 
 how thefe Vermine came there, and 
 
 how 
 
C *4 ) 
 
 how to prevent them, for the future, 
 from creeping into fo warm a Warren. 
 He often advertifes his Courfes to be 
 perform’d by N. St. Andre , Surgeon 
 and Anatomift to his Majefty : Yours 
 are as often advertis’d to be perform’d 
 by J. M — ry, M. D. Author of the 
 female Thyfician , and Midwifry brought 
 to TerfeSion. 
 
 O n this Head one thing may be 
 juftly faid, that no two Authors have 
 ever drawn their own Pictures more 
 exactly than you Two have done; for 
 It is fully agreed on all Hands, that 
 ye have drawn them to the Life, and 
 to Admiration. 
 
 Your female ‘Phyftcian was feafon- 
 ably, not rafhly publifhed: Witnefs 
 the examining llridly into the 1 ruth 
 of the Fads you fo dexteroufly ac¬ 
 counted for : His Narrative with the 
 like Difcretion, before the Pad was 
 examin’d. Yours was the Fruit of 
 painful Study, and long, very long, 
 Pradice in Midwifry, Womens Dil- 
 
( *5 ) 
 
 eafes, Uc. delivered to the World in 
 a plain eafy Style, without the lead 
 Defire to fhew your Parts, or the leaft 
 Tincture of Ambition to appear great, 
 or Pretenfions to be taken Notice of, 
 by Narrations of fabulous Extrava¬ 
 gancies. His Narrative of the extra¬ 
 ordinary Delivery of Rabbets fhew’d 
 he wanted to be delivered of fome- 
 thing extraordinary; whence it may 
 not be improperly faid, That Te are 
 hoth finely brought to Bed. Yours fhew 
 your great Skill in Anatomy and Mid- 
 wifry; witnefs the two Sims’s of the 
 Womb, with all its various Pofitions; 
 The Narrative fhews his great Judg¬ 
 ment in both, witnefs his Conjectures 
 about the Rabbets being bred in the 
 Tubes, and only came into the Uterus 
 when they gave her thofe Agitations, 
 which were fenfibly felt many Hoars 
 before their Exclufion, See g. 9, lo. 
 You, with great Prudence and Care, 
 have advanced nothing could render 
 you ridiculous, and have cautioufly 
 
 trvoid- 
 
no 
 
 avoided giving any the leaft Handle to 
 find fault with, or queftion the Since¬ 
 rity of your Narrations. So has he, 
 witnefs his Narrative and Recantation. 
 As for the Guilford Performer, who 
 laid the Woman of three more Rab¬ 
 bets, the laft of which leap’d Twenty 
 Three Hours in Utero before it died, 
 Seep. 6 . and when the nth Rabbet 
 was taken away, up leap’d the i ath; 
 I have neither Room nor Leifure to 
 animadvert on him or his Wonders, 
 without JVorthinefs , as Lord Bacon has 
 it; for he feems fitter for a Toad-earer 
 and Mountebank, than a Surgeon or 
 Man-Midwife. 
 
 I Shall beg Leave to prefent the 
 Reader with a fhort Chapter from your 
 Female Thyfician , where the Reader will 
 be delighted with a Neatnefs of Dicti¬ 
 on, and incomparable Fluency, which 
 difcover your Regard to Senfe more 
 than Tuneful Words , and confequently 
 theEfteem your Works deferve among 
 the Learned. I am, Sir, Jsfo 
 
 T Artur hint montes, &c. C- rT 
 
 —Vox & £r<zt ere a 7nfil, OJiLj I • 
 
SECT. 8. C H a ?. III. P. 398. 
 Of the Strangulation of the JVomb. 
 
 T is alfo called Strangulation, 
 Suffocation, or Prafocation. Ibid. 
 L. 1 6 . This Suffocation is a Di- 
 ich the Patient iabours under In- 
 flation, frequent Rumblings of the Belly, with 
 * Refrigeration, p. 400. of the whole Body, and 
 principal Parts, fo as to intercept both Pulle 
 and Breath $ yet the Woman, no lei's than 
 other Animals, fuch as Snails , 8cc. may have 
 Tranfpiration. 
 
 As there are many different Sorts of Uterine 
 Strangulations, there muff alfo be many pecu¬ 
 liar Caufes. The Imbecillity of the principal 
 Parts admitting the Humouis, mull concur at 
 the Latitude of the Paflages, which confp:r.ng 
 together, a Suffocation fucceeds with Aggrava¬ 
 tion, p. 4oz. and draws on the moll dangerous 
 Sort of Suffocaxion, in which the Patient lies 
 for dead, and differs in nothing from a dead Per- 
 fon. Hence fome have been buried for dead, 
 
 C and 
 
 P- }S>9j 
 ftemper in wh 
 
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 and fome have had the good Fortune to return 
 from their Graves to their Houles ’gain. If 
 the Blood be fweet, (lie only fancies Amours. 
 
 P.405. This Affe&ion happens to Wo¬ 
 men latiated wich Virile Gn'oerjation , p.402. 
 when they only (eem to faint and fall away 
 with a fort of grateful Indulgence, without 
 the Pulfe's Alteration. Upon which I oblerve, 
 that if thefe Winds or Vapours, arifing irora 
 corrupted Humours, be communicated to the 
 Heart, the Suffocation happens with Palpita¬ 
 tion •, if to the Brain, with a Vertigo and 
 SufFufion from the Phantafms of the Eyes. 
 This happens to Widows rather than Virgins, 
 becaufe in the one the Paflagcs are liot only 
 dilated, but Nature is accuftom'.d to fuch 
 Emiffions, as the other is yet wholly a St-an- 
 gei to. If thefe be detained too long there, 
 they’ll be converted into Venom, or a poy- 
 fonous Humour. 
 
 I t is a MuJiebrian Difeafe, whofe Paroxifms 
 are to be help’d by holding Fxtids to the Note, 
 p. 404. and Suaveolenis to the Pudendum. It 
 feizes the Patient all at once, tho’ ’tis but of 
 a fhort Duration , p. 405". and, in fhort, aflails 
 the Patient fuddenly, without any previous 
 Notice or Signification. 
 
 I f a Glafs of Water be fet on her Breafiy 
 if If if red, there’s fome Motion and Dilatation,- 
 confidering well what has been faid, that ’tis 
 only by internal Tranfpiration ihe draws the 
 Breath, of Life. 
 
 Cure-, 
 
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 Cure , p\ 406. I f fhe’s alive, fhe will be 
 quickly moved by Sternutation. If the fend 
 forth a cadaverous Smell, it’s certain the Body 
 is no more fupported by the Soul: Where¬ 
 fore, fhe is not to be buried, till after Seven¬ 
 ty Two Hours Expiration , becaufe that is the 
 Crifis. 
 
 P. 407. The Learned agree, that a prae- 
 ternatual Situation , namely, the Womb’s af- 
 cending to the fuperioi Parts, comprefling the 
 Diaphragm, Lungs, and Heart, may induce 
 various Suffocations, , which I think is alio con- 
 frm’d by Redon and Experience. Who 
 knows nor, thit the Womb may fa!! down 
 to the very Knees? as I havafeen ir 5 and who 
 may not thence conceive, that in the fame 
 Laxity of the Ligaments, the Womb may be 
 as well drawn upwards, by Winds, Vapours, 
 or too much grots Blood in the Ligaments? 
 
 P.408. The imminent Paroxyfm of Sup- 
 focalion is to be known by Grumblings in her 
 Abdomen, a Dillention and Pulfation in the 
 Back, a pale and fad Countenance, attended at 
 lallwith the forefaidSenfe of Strangulation, as 
 if the Patient was fwallowing a Bill, &c. as 
 alfo I have known fome Women taken with 
 a Fit of Laughter upon this Occafion. 
 
 The morbifick humorous Particles, as in 
 intermitting Fevers, have their due time of Ac¬ 
 cumulation and Exaltation, and may lye dor¬ 
 mant in our B 'dv, until by fame Procathar- 
 tick Caufe, they are exagiuted, and let at 
 Work. 
 
 Ci P 
 
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 P. 409. N o w, this Agitation of Humours 
 depends upon the Courfe of the Sun and Moon 
 in its Pertgaum and Apogamn. 
 
 As to the Motion of the Sea, its Efficacy 
 upon the /inimal Fabrick may be eafily com¬ 
 prehended, p . 409. When the Moon is but 
 halt full, the Planets draw each a contrary 
 way, as it is middling during the Time between 
 thedimi iatedOrbsof the Moon, and the new 
 and full Moon. 
 
 H e n c e it is, that our Bodies fo much 
 fvmpathize and correlpond with the Coelcifi- 
 als, as daily Experience tcacheth for Truth, 
 that the hyfterick Patient keeps flridt Tune 
 with thele fuperiour Bodies. So much for 
 Diagnotficks j now 
 
 P 114 For the Prognoftxks of this Uterine 
 Suffocation. Where the Humours are implica¬ 
 ted among themtelvrs, as bttore, by Stagnation , 
 the Fits don t keep their legitimate Times, fo 
 a Concourfe andC onflaxion of Humours muft 
 needs aggravate the Ddiemper j especially it 
 there be a Complication, lueh as when .1 Syncope 
 is join’d with ihe hviienck Fir, the’Gale is 
 dangerous, p. 41 z. Theie things confiding 
 in the Co* *uption and Inflammation, the Cir* 
 dilations of the Diitemper aie either lhorter 
 or longer. 
 
 . J 10e Cure. If it proceed from Suppreflion, 
 infeuor Vended<£ti<>n is convenient, even tho’ 
 a Syncope the Suffocation, bui muit he done 
 Yvuh Caution, hecaule oi the preient Projha - 
 
 tion 
 
(*t) 
 
 tion and Refrigeration of the Patient’s whole 
 Body. 
 
 Whereas, if the Paroxyfm proceeds 
 from venenated Seed, I would lay her fupine 
 in her Bed* and if Feliication of her Ears, 
 Ptlorumve Pudendi , did not help her Conditi¬ 
 on, p. 413 I would apply Cupping Glafles, 
 without Scarification , as alfo Peflaries, and 
 fome turns Suffumigations of old Leather, a 
 Partridge’s Feather, or the Hair of her own 
 —-Head, which is much better, alwavs che- 
 rijhing her Stomach with Fomentations, p 414. 
 01 the Hoof of an Elk, a prel'ent Remedy in 
 all Suffocations. 
 
 P. 41 f. If this Diftemper proceed from 
 the Retention of the vitiated Seed, then, of 
 Coiirfe, and without Controverfy, the hylte- 
 rick Paflion muff needs be moft familiar to Wi¬ 
 dow-, and marriageable Virgins, to whom I 
 malt finally lav, Let ’em marry. In fine, 
 Marriage will very much help filch indifpofed, 
 according to the wife Ancients. 
 
 Before I clofe this finilhitlg Chapter, I 
 mult finally oblerve, by way of Recapitulati¬ 
 on, That if Marriage can’t be, they m y try 
 a common Remedy, which they’ll find in 
 Ch f. Self. Z. called Copulation , p 307. Having 
 now candidly laid down, and ingenuoufiy fee 
 forth, the moft certain, brief, plain, ealy, and 
 unprejudic’d Inftrudtions, which perhaps have 
 ever yet been committed to Print upon the 
 Subjedt of Midwifery, and all for the common 
 Good of Mankind, without any jijfefta t ion, 
 liefitation or Refervation. Now 
 
N OW, if fo many Ations adorn one 
 Angle Chapter of your Speculations, 
 what a Multiplication of fuch Decoration j, 
 mull raife our Expectation on a due Perlufi- 
 ration of 398 Chapter? of your elaborate 
 Lucubrations. 
 
 Thefe, without Exaggeration , mull excite 
 the Admiration or the Learned of all Stations^ 
 efpecially thole of Phyfick, to. whom yourDf- 
 dication p. f. makes its lolemn Application for 
 a candid Interpretation , and with profound Ve¬ 
 neration {hews the fure Foundation on which 
 the Art of Obfletrication Hands faft in this Na¬ 
 tion p. 18. to be imputed alone to youxPere¬ 
 grination. 
 
 Your divine Contemplations , and Sublime 
 Dijjertatiens on the Author of our Creation , 
 Cb. 1. where, by your Infmuation, the only Ca- 
 tharticks of the Soul are Philofophical Demon- 
 ftrations , and where, without Affectation you 
 defcant on the Powers of Judging, Phantafy 
 and Cogitation , />. 13. 14. and for farther Di- 
 lucidation you Philosophize on Senjktion. The 
 four Senfes you do tell, have their refpc&ive 
 Cells in the Head. Of the Brain the two foremoft 
 Cells are pofTefs’d by common Senl'e and imagi¬ 
 nation. The Middle Part of the Head by Cogi¬ 
 tation. t and the hindmolf Part thereof by Com¬ 
 memoration, />. 17. and how the .ethereal Spi¬ 
 rit divides it felf into a threefold Diverfification , 
 by the Appropriation of as many Relkkncies in 
 the Brain, the Heart, and the Liver, and how 
 
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 lafZ 17 Fmentation cheril71 whole Corpo- 
 
 On the Embryo’s Formation, , p. 2o The 
 Fx J ms Animation, p. 24 The Infant’s Main- 
 ration, p 29.^ with their times of Spumificati- 
 on, Lactation, Coagulation, and times of Li- 
 neation. Ramification, or Carnification, when 
 the Embryo receives the Name of Fcetus. 
 
 On the Powers of Imagination, p. eg. rn. 
 where the fudden Tran [mutation, by the force 
 of Saltation, at a Dancing-Bout of Recreation, 
 made fuch an Alteration , as amaz’d the good 
 Women, who were turn’d into Men. 
 
 O n your Reafons of the Child’s Likenefs, 
 from the Mother’s Imagination in the time of 
 Copulation, p. 6$. I n p. 49. Cb. 4. of Love, 
 there you fhew, if any want to know, what 
 is Love’s Confummation, defcribed at large in 
 your do. f. />. j*3. of Copulation, Cb. 6. Re¬ 
 marks upon Copulation, p. ft. That in Con- 
 grellion, they might be mutually charm’d, 
 for many Griefs Compenfaiion. Thefe Con¬ 
 junctions of both Sexes, thefe Completions 
 or our unbounded Paflions, thefe Defires of Pro* 
 creation , with the fuitable means of Generation, 
 may be all feen at large, and read, by the Mo- 
 deft, without Blufh, or Perturbation. * 
 
 P. 140. 
 
 And further, (which is very remarkable) That Women hnv* 
 been turn’d into Men, which fome. would perluade us to believe to 
 be an EfFe£ 0 f the Force of a vehement Imagination acting upon 
 the Soul, with which it is of a near Affinity beyond all the Power 
 Sc nffi A , 
 
■ r ' 
 
 P i ao The Birth’s Legitimation, by your 
 CaU.Mc», leems fix’d tc.no ,S,Um ,whjch 
 occafions Tribulation to the Sex in Gtflatnn, 
 who always rely’d on the common Numeration, 
 believing in the old way of Reckoning, 1 hat 
 their fuilTime was out, at nine Months Cow 
 fummation, till your Denunciation ihew d your 
 Delation at fuch Confabulations, as were 
 only vulgar Errors, and popular Notions, 
 f . hz. founded on Hear-fays, and the general 
 Miftonftruaion of Women. 11 hefe:idlcRe¬ 
 
 ports of Midwives, and their fnvolou , Re.* 
 tions , even impos’d on the Ancients of EJhma - 
 
 tion. 
 
 Let no Man imagine this a Deviation-, for 
 I do affert, that p. 144- Ten and Eleven Months, 
 and your poftenor Births, arefurerby far, and 
 more to be reckon’d on, by your Computation. 
 Many ftill doubt, it’s eafily made out and 
 noW) for & clear Tvobuticn. 
 
 As to this Point, I think we may find more probable Reafons for 
 it than all the Po’wers of Imagination, how great 
 vellous they mav be, whereof I lhall mention that which feems1 to 
 be the moll rati'onal Caufe, «fc. an CKtingirifh'd or l^enr form. | 
 Faculty, which (however) fometimes has excited ltfalt again ww 
 the Blazing of a refufeitated Fire. ■ , , . are 
 
 For as our Teeth take this Beginning m the Womb, hut 
 perfefted without, and as the Teeth called, Dentes Sapientu a _ 
 generated, apd break out, even after the 30th Year of our Ag - 
 So it may be, that the Virile Genitals have beai imperfeaiv oe 
 sun in the Womb, and that this forming Faculty has only pert- 
 ed them by little and little, fo that at laft they have fpru g * 
 and appeared after the lhaking of the Pudendum. An 
 fluently fuch Women as thofe (upon Dancing-Bouts, or™. ,! 
 when the Blood and natural Heat had been ftrongly exagi 
 have turn’d into Men. p 
 
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 P. 147. The Proculean Child you u(her\i 
 into the World, that was born juft on tbs 3^. 
 Day of the Eleventh Month, during the Collo- 
 nel’s Abfence, on his Lady’s Reputation, P. 148, 
 is a full, very full Confirmation . Ergo Proba - 
 turn eft . * 
 
 If 
 
 * Chap. 3^ 0 / * Wherefore, in fhort, 
 
 I cannor help having full as good an Opinion of luch a Child bom 
 about the lait of the Seventh, as of any fuch born in the Beginning 
 of the Ninth. 
 
 To examine this nice Matter a little more dearly, let us infpeCt 
 into the Stature and Quality of the Month, in order to which l 
 !»■ hope we may rationally obferve, 
 
 That the latter of the Planets (the Moon) influentially prefides 
 over rhe Infant in this Month, whofe frigid and humid Qualities 
 are thought to afford the fevetal Parts of it a tertain Fatnefs, 
 thereby relaxing, and eafily diftending the Matrix which being 
 done, and the Child being now perfected by the whole Body of the 
 Planets, that have all particularly, in their Order, duly difcharged 
 £ their refpective Functions towards its Perfection. 
 
 It is alfo farther obfervable, that as the Soul of Man has Seven 
 different Appellations, according to its principal Offices, 
 
 I have alfo remarkably obferv’d, that the Number Seven is mo& 
 powerfully and fignally predominant in Coeleltials; as, the Seven 
 Circles in rhe Heavens, according to the Longitude of the Axle- 
 Tree j the Seven Stars about the Artick Poles, called Charles's 
 " Wain ■, the Seven Stars called the Pleiades , &c. 
 
 This Number Seven is likewife to be of the greateft Efteem in 
 Religion as, the Seven Beatitudes, the Seven Virtues, the Seven 
 f Vices, the Seven Petitions of th# Lord’s Prayer, the Seven Words 
 of our Saviour upon theCrofs, &c. the Seven Seals, Seven Trum¬ 
 pets, Seven Vials, according to the Interpretation of thac molt 
 learned Divine, Peter Palladius , Bifhop of Rcchel. 
 
 I think that Number likewile may properly portend here Perfe¬ 
 ction in Maturity, and Completion in Vitality to every full Seven 
 Months Child. 
 
 Chap. 34. Of an Eighth Month's Birth, p. 142 As to the Eighth 
 Month, it is, and it is not * fo that a Child born in the Eigh h 
 Month (in fome refpect) may be fuppofed in Being, but really and 
 indeed is not, becaufe it foon vanilhes or dies. 
 
 Chap. 3 5. Of a Nine Month's Child. The Generality of mo¬ 
 dern Writers alledge a Nine Months Birth to be rhe appointed Tim* 
 of Nature. But unlefs they can produce better Reasons chan I have 
 jet heard of they ihall fearce influence me to agree with their po- 
 ' U puiar 
 
(>«) 
 
 I f Curiofity protnpt fo far* as p. 37f. of a 
 Sooterkin Generation * here it is amply defcri- 
 bed, and fully fei forth, in a Angular Obferva- 
 
 tion , 
 
 pular Notions or vulgar Errors. For their fond Opinion feems noc 
 to be fo much fupported by any Arguments c.f natural Reafon, as 
 by an imaginary Experience founded upon Hearfay, or the general 
 Mifconftrudtion cf Women. 
 
 However, I muft own, that fome aufpicious Births happen in 
 this very Month, for feveral good Reafons. 
 
 Firft, Becaufe Jupiter now returns with his ferene Afpeft, and 
 renovates the Life of the Infint. 
 
 Secondly, Becaufe this aufpicious Number Kine is dedicated to 
 the Mufes, according to^the Order of Coeleftiai Spheres, hence 
 Nine Moveable Spheres, &c. 
 
 Thirdly, Becaufe, to denote the Sufficiency of this Number, 
 there are alfo Nine Orders and Choirs of fie Ted Angels, Nine pre¬ 
 cious Stones * be Tides the Nine internal and external Senfes, c re. 
 
 Yet however, in moil natural and philofophical Gates, this Num¬ 
 ber implies ftill fome Imperfection, becaufe it comes ffiort of the 
 Great Number Ten, being deficient by One, as St. Aujlin inter¬ 
 prets it of the Ten Lepers. 
 
 Chap. 3 6 . Of a Ten Months Birth. This Ten Months Birth is, 
 in my Opinion, as legitimate as the Ninth: Many learned Men are 
 of my Opinion, for "the Number Ten is reckoned a compleat and 
 tiniverfal Number. 
 
 Ten Singers of Pfalms, Ten Mufical Inftruments, Ten Strings 
 in the Pfaltery, Ten Curtains in the Temple, Ten Command¬ 
 ments j and, in fine, the Tenth Day after Afcenlion: Ten 
 Parts, of which Man himfelf confifts intrinfically$ Ten fim- 
 plg integral Parts conftituting the Man. In ffiort, juft fo, after 
 this manner, there are Ten Months required to form and ma¬ 
 turate the Man in the fubftantial Completion of thefe to Per¬ 
 fection. 
 
 The Virtue of Numbers is evident in the Herb called Pentapbyh 
 ton , which is laid to refill Poifons by Virtue of Number Vive, as 
 One Leaf of it taken twice a Day in Wine, cures the Quotidian, 
 Three the Tertian, and Four the Quartan Fever. In like man¬ 
 ner, as a Serpent {truck once with a Spear dies; but if twice, is 
 faid to recover Strength. So much for the Curious. 
 
 Chap. 37. p. 147. of the Eleven Months Birth. As to rhe Ele¬ 
 venth Month, many Authors agree to legitimate its B:rth, becaufe 
 of feveral repeated Inftances that really happened in their Days. 
 To which I can add one of my own proper Experience, during 
 my itinerant Praclice in the City of Prague. I happened to be 
 called to. a Lady in Labour, whom I immediately laid of a fine 
 
 lufty 
 
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 t* on * whereof wns never yet told by 
 
 any of your Occupation . Let the Curious then 
 ftand aloof and hear, to their grand Mortifi¬ 
 cation . A Fa£t! A Faff! you here relate, 
 without ddign d Defamation, of any of your 
 Neighbours near, of whatever Denomination. 
 For you only told it to make the Faff dear, 
 and of the M vftury give a Revelation ; of which 
 you found the Learn’d did not doubt, die you 
 had n^t made fuch a Proclamation . 
 
 Which, for Morality and Inftru&ion fake 
 as well as the common Good of Mmkind* 
 you make this fhort and fincere Narration 
 not of Mancipations, nor of Dutch UfUrpa - 
 tions, hut a faithful Relation of a ft ran#* Pro¬ 
 creation, peculi ir to a High and Mighty' 'Nation, 
 of a monitrous Animal, the liktfliof anything 
 in Shape and Size to a IVloouiwarp, with a 
 
 lufty and lively Girl. This Lady was pleafed to tell me out of her 
 own Mouth, that before the Day of her Delivery, her Husband 
 (who was a Colonel in the Imperial Service) had been gone to the 
 Army then in Sicily, Ten Months and Two Days: So that this 
 'rrocuiean Child was born at foonelt the Third Lay of the Eleventh 
 Month i and in this Cafe, I dare lay, I was no wavs mistaken or 
 lmpofed upon, that Lady being a Perfon endued with no lefs true 
 Honour and ftridd Virtue, than fhe was otherwise defervedly efteem- 
 ed, p. 148. Upon which happy Qxafion, I was the find Time 
 iull>- latistied and convinc’d, that the Eleventh Month is preferable 
 to any Birth, becaufe the SUN, in tiie Eleventh Month, returns 
 to take Care of the Infant (yet unborn) by virtue of whole viva¬ 
 cious Influence, and beneficent Qu.diry, Births in this Month are 
 accounted no lels vital and fucce&ful, than anv others 'differently 
 timed. ' ‘ ‘ ' 
 
 P 14p. There are alfo many Authors over and above, who make 
 fnentionof Births in the 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th Month. Yes ve- 
 rilv-; and there is one Inltance of a certain Marchionefs, who had 
 two running Births luccelflvely, the one in the iSth, the other in 
 the 20th Month. As to the Months, I defme to be underftood as 
 leaning Solar Months, comprehending Thirty Days. 
 
 D z 
 
 hoiked 
 
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 hooked Snout, fparkling Eyes, and a fhort 
 Tail with Acuminatim r which made its won¬ 
 derful Egrels, and with its Vociferation fill’d 
 your Ears with difmal Skrieches, and your 
 Mind with Confternatian . 
 
 Upon which the Plump Girl pull’d out of 
 the Frou, without any Def ormation s and tho’ 
 livid Spots on its Body did grow, they turn’d 
 only to an univerfat Scurf, as appeared by 
 your Prognofticationi, and by your wile Orders 
 they diligently us’d the exprefs’d Oil of Al¬ 
 monds, becaufe Dutchmen refufed to give any 
 other, for you ftn£Uy caution’d ’em againft 
 that by Dif illation. 
 
 That this Birth was common among Sea¬ 
 faring Folks you was told in a Grand Conful - 
 tation of the leveral Doctors of the Umvetfi- 
 ties there, who were Men of a learned Edu¬ 
 cation^ that tea ce One of Three of thefe 
 meaner Sort tfcap’J this ft range Birth’s Impu¬ 
 tation , ( f which aft* rwards y ur Prattice 
 ’monglt the F-oiA ga e ull Confirmation , be¬ 
 ing a ftour, o J very ftout Corroboration. The 
 1 hing Oe Suyger you aiwavS found upon the 
 Chilu s pief ntation , and always offer’d it fclf 
 as ioo\\ according to Expectation* 
 
 For which the provident Frou’s, in like 
 manner did m»ke a iuiubie Pt eparation, and 
 into the Fire it wa^ general, thrown, lb end¬ 
 ed in this Conflagration j to all its nimble Feet 
 to get into Holes and Corners for Safety and 
 Conjervation . 
 
 These 
 
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 These things beingfo, for Reafons you 
 
 Zw»w, ]uft cited in your Differ tat ion, all Pa¬ 
 rents lTvmld behave orderly and decently in 
 their dutiful Conjugation, not like infatiable 
 Brutes, but Men of Ratiocination, for feveral 
 wile Ends, themfelves and their Friends, and 
 their Families Prefervation , from fuch an op¬ 
 probrious Race, to be lucceeded by an univo¬ 
 cal Generation. 
 
 Of the Truth of this Fart, if any yet 
 doubt, as you faw it with your Eyes, you’ll 
 furely make it out, without a Procraflination. 
 It an Oath be requir’d, you are ready to give 
 it, at leaf! your affirmation: If that be not 
 Proof, you 11 double it out with numerous Af- 
 feverations. But that the whole World may 
 be fully convinc’d by an evident Demon - 
 Jlration, befides Quotations, and innumerable 
 Citations , let one ltand for all, fince Brevity 
 calls, and that’s Lemnius 's Excarnification. 
 
 That this and many others you’ve uuthen^ 
 tic-ally collefti d from Authors of good Repu¬ 
 tation, befides the many Learn’d at home and 
 abroad, wirh whom you have had Converfa * 
 tion j and none of them all have denied this 
 great Truth in general, tho’ fome of them 
 have been pleafed to contradict the Truth of 
 thisPofiuon in particular} for which Reafon 
 you have obliged the whole Earth with your 
 Publication. 
 
 Now for the proper Caufes of fuch Births, 
 have at a Difcujfation. Some nicely account 
 
 for 
 
for them by Mixtures of brutal Seminations j 
 others, from the Influx of Stars .tvi Cun jin na¬ 
 tions. Some from Vices of Conftirution *, ? id 
 others, from the Womb’s Situations S me 
 from lafeivious, and others alfo, enormous 
 A£ts of Copulation. And fome at iait, bora 
 the fordid and corrupted Seminal Muter of 
 the Perfons copulating. AH conlentaneous to 
 Reafon. Butin fpeaking to fuchCaufes, y.u 
 think Requifites concurring to the Produ&ion 
 of the Ftetus, ought to have a previous Confi- 
 deration , what they naturally are, and what 
 their Qualifications. As lit, The Ficul y of 
 Formation 5 next, the Spirit and Imagination. 
 ^dly. The Matter viz. both Seeds, and the 
 menltiuous Sanguifi cations. 
 
 P. 368. Pray, what Wonder is it if the 
 Woman in time of Conception, conceive and 
 bring forth her Faetus with a Calf’s Head, 
 Lamb’s, Dog’s, Cat’s Head, />. 369. or the 
 Effigie of any fort of thing whatlocver ? And 
 this the more efpecially, confidering, that not 
 only the conceiving Woman, but ail'o the copu¬ 
 lating Man may effedt the lame thing, if he 
 did imprudently let his mind on iuch Ob¬ 
 jects, or employ his perverted Imagination mat 
 way. 
 
 No w, as to the Heart and Spirit cont in p d 
 in the Seed, we may eafily conceive its Lff dts, 
 and fuch as have been in Glals Works, may rea¬ 
 dily comprehend how Monitors arc form d 
 the Womb 5 for as in modelling the Gl ifs, if 
 the Workman blow the Pipe too much, the 
 Stuff is extended both longer and wider* than 
 
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 its due proportionable Form } fo it may hap¬ 
 pen in the Womb. A glorious llluftration / So 
 much for Formations by the Strength of Imati- 
 nation , now for ' 6 
 
 P. 3f<5. Superfat at ion y which without Depu¬ 
 tation is onlyan Apertion of the Orifice ot the 
 Womb, at the Effufion of the virile Seed, 
 and happens to fuch Women, p. 3^7. as arc 
 defirous of Copulation , which the Midwives 
 may know by your not unadvifed Inculcation. 
 
 P. 3fS. That a numerous Conception 
 may happen, either with, or without Superfa- 
 tation , is plain from your Book. See the Mar* 
 ginal Quotation, where your accurate ac¬ 
 counting for the Caufe of 3 6f Children bom 
 at one Birth, is at once a plain Proof of your 
 prudent Conjideration , as tt is of your great 
 Faith, and exqu.fite Knowledge of the Womb’s 
 Attraction. O amazing and fingular Specula¬ 
 tion f That there may be a Conception for eve¬ 
 ry Orifice of the Uterine Veins, and that every 
 Veflel, p , 3fp. may attraCt its own diitind: 
 Share of the feminal Matter, and thereupon ini¬ 
 tiate a refpe&ive Conception, tho’ it cannot 
 poifibly bring it to Perfection. 
 
 Ibid, and p. 3do. The Cure you here of¬ 
 fer by way of Prevention, is, To Temper the 
 Womb by Refrigeration j for which, and all 
 other your nice Obfervations , your Advices, 
 and Ordinations , whether in Divine, Aftrolo- 
 gical, or Phyfical Confutations, the Publick 
 is indebted, and will doubtlefs pay their Grati¬ 
 fications, for they certainly mult own their vaft 
 
 Obli- 
 
( 3 * ) 
 
 Obligations, for your great Zeal, and clofe Ap¬ 
 plication, for their real Good, and our Edifi¬ 
 cation } tor all which, accept of this Congratula¬ 
 tion. 
 
 I Congratulate you, Sir, on your 
 new and excellent way of teaching young 
 Gentlemen Midwifry, and Mid wives Anato¬ 
 my, by Le&ures in Divinity, Allrology, and 
 Metaphyfick Philofophy ; or rather, a Manu¬ 
 al Operation^ by Theological Dijfertations^ and 
 Aftrological Contemplations. 
 
 O n your Knowledge in piloting the good 
 Women thro’the Torrents of Difficulties, and 
 Oceans of Dangers, in the three Gulphs of 
 Geftation, and atlaft bringing them into a fafe 
 Harbour, there to refit tor the fame profpe- 
 rous Navigation. Seep. 3if. p. 70. 
 
 On your Skill in mooring Mother and 
 Child, when, after ten Months Voyage, they 
 ride at Anchor, againft fudden Winds and 
 Storms as may fhipwreck them. See p. jop. 
 
 On your nice Calculations of the Latitude 
 of Time (as you phrafe it) allow’d Births in 
 Formation, Animation, and Maturation. See 
 
 T' 3 * 
 
 On your remarkable Obfervation upon the 
 old exploded Story of 181 Males, as many 
 Females, and an odd one, a Hermophradite. 
 See p. jfS. viz. Hence the Certainty of nu¬ 
 merous Conceptions will evidently appear, 
 b 3 T 9 . 
 
 On 
 
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 On your molt valuable Inftrudtions of great 
 Ufe to all who read them : See Chap. II. Of 
 Virginity ■, Chap. IV. Of Love Chap. V. Of 
 Copulation - } Chap. VI. Remarks on Copulation j 
 Chap. Vll. Of Imagination , 8cc. 
 
 ! 
 
 On your clear Annotations, and fine Trans¬ 
 mutations of Dr. Daventer' s Womb’s Situati- 
 * onsj SeePage 227. to 294. 
 
 1 . - 
 
 On your reducing them all to a four-fold 
 Situation, as the Ancients did the Winds, be- 
 caufe of the four Regions or Limits of the 
 ■ Heavens, as Ovid in his Metamorphojis. See 
 Pag. 2oy. Eurus ad Auroram, &c. 
 i 
 
 jf On your free Way of communing and 
 publilhing to the World fuch things as bafh- 
 ful Authors have induftrioufly conceal’d, at 
 a lead: ferv’d up in clean Linnen, for fear of 
 is their Reputation, in order to preferve that 
 valuable Thing called Modefty, from Vulgar 
 ; Prophanation. See Pag. yi, f2, y 3. 
 
 But now, to fum up all, and come to an 
 End, excufe this Ejaculation. May your Eyes 
 be opened, that you may fee fome Mens Infa- 
 tuation , and Midas- like, when his Ears were 
 transform’d, may you either glory or be afha- 
 k med of fuch insinuations. 
 
 <! 
 
 i May your ufeful Inftru&ions and manual 
 Operations ne’er want Recordation , from this 
 j' Time henceforth to Time’s 'Termination. May 
 you for your Toil meet with due Exaltation. 
 
 E And 
 
 i 
 
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 And may thofe of all Stations , States and 
 Denominations , efteem your Works juft as I 
 do, for their folid Learning, valuable Inftru- 
 dlions, Modefty, Integrity and Truth, that 
 fliine thro’ all your Narrations. 
 
 May your Works be preferved from high 
 Indignation , and into all the known Langua¬ 
 ges may they have a 7 ranflation } and may they 
 endure to the laft Conflagration , unlefs by fomc 
 Criticks they be doom’d to a fiery Condemna - 
 tion, lb fhare that Illumination^ long, very long 
 before the Grand Incineration. 
 
 S o much for Inftru&ion, now for a little 
 Diverfion. 
 
 
 A DIA- 
 
A DIALOGUE between the 
 Lady Sne-er, Mrs. Toft of God- 
 almin. Midwife , and her "Deputy. 
 
 Lady. 
 
 E feem very merry 
 here, good Folks : 
 How d’ye, Dame 
 Toft? 
 
 Mid. At yourLa- 
 dyfhip’sfervicc, M 
 dam ; I am perfectiy 
 rejoiced to fee one 
 of your Ladyfliip’s merry Difpofition here* 
 and that your Ladyfhip fltould have popt in 
 upon us, juft as we were reading the merrieft 
 Book that ever appeared in Print to be furc ! 
 
 La. Heydey! what now Goodie? what 
 fine Book can that be ? 
 
 Mid. The Female Phyjician. 
 
 La. How now, Dame! d’ye laugh at that 
 learned Book ? The Title feems to promife 
 well, and the Book to be fit and proper for 
 one of your Bufinels } the Subject itfelf being 
 ferious. 
 
 E i Mid. 
 
( 36 ) 
 
 Mid. Ay, many, fo I thought, an’t pleafe 
 your Ladyship, when I had read no further 
 than the Title-Page. But when I peep’d into 
 the Body on’c, ro be fure Madam, I laugh’d 
 by the Clock, ard thought I fhould have fplit 
 my Sides, for the whole Book is made up of 
 Wonders. 
 
 La. Prithee Dame, fpeak fparingly of the 
 Labours of the Learned, and let me know 
 what thofe are you call Wonders. 
 
 Mid. Firft, The Language is wonderful, 
 fuch as neither I nor my Deputy can prehend, 
 nay, not one Word in a Hundred} and I que- 
 ftion whether your X°P Midwives at London 
 underftand it} and, if it was not ill Manners, 
 M d im, I might even venture to fay yourLa- 
 dyfhip would be puzzled with Ten Thoufand 
 Crambo Words that I do not underftand. 
 
 La. You furprize me, Dame, is not the 
 Book Englijb ? 
 
 Mid. Yes, Madam, it is, and yet I defy 
 your Ladyihip to underftand it. 
 
 La. Well, Goodie, fo much for the Lan¬ 
 guage of it} now tell us what other Wonder¬ 
 fuls it contains. 
 
 Mid. Wonderful Stories of Womens being 
 turned into Men ! Wonderful Conceptions of 
 Women without the Help of Men! Wonder¬ 
 ful Births of wonderful and monftrous little 
 Animals, that at firft Sight of the World’s 
 Light made wonderful Skrieks, and ran up 
 and down like wonderful little Dsemons, and 
 thofe none of the better Sort, the firft time 
 he law them. The firft of thefe, he fays, 
 made its wonderful Egrefs, filling his Ears 
 with wonderful Skrieks, &V. 
 
 La. Thefe 
 
Goodie. There wo "toful things, 
 
 . Mid ' Th ey are, indeed, Madam; but which 
 is yet more wonderful, this Great Doftor has 
 Pj n his wonderful Reafons for all he fays 
 fo he muft be in the right, being a very rea¬ 
 sonable and wonderful Man. 
 
 La. Ha! ha! ha! 
 
 Mid. 1 knew I Ihould make your Laayfhip 
 laugh with this wonderful Book. 
 
 La. Ay, Goodie, fo thou haft and I’m ob¬ 
 lig’d to thee for’t. 
 
 Mid. But now, dear Madam, were I to tell 
 
 ^° U i r r^ ad r? lip r 11 know coneer »ing him and 
 it, I ihould yet furprize you more. 
 
 La. Prithee, dear Dame Toft, tell me free- 
 knoweft Ut ^ ^ ePerve » ever y thing thou 
 
 t ^ then. To be plain with vour 
 Ladyftnp, I’ll tell you a ftrange Story about 
 lome Rabbets, perhaps as odd as his Sooterkins • 
 lor his Book gave me the firft Hint to hatch 
 and contrive Ways and Means to palm an 
 
 Enghjb Rabbet on the World for his Dutch 
 oooterkins. 
 
 La. Prithee do, dear Goodie Toft , and 
 thou l t extremely oblige me. 
 
 Mid. Well, has not your Ladyfhip heard of 
 the Woman that brought forth fo many Rab¬ 
 bets? and has not your Ladyfhip feen and read 
 z Short Narrative of that extraordinary Deli- 
 
 La. Yes, yes, I have. The Publick have 
 been pefter’d with that Rabbet-Woman aloncr 
 time; and I had the Curiofity to go fee her a*? 
 the Bagnio. 
 
 Mid. To 
 
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 Mid. To tell you the Truth, toe’s mj 
 Daughter-in-Law, that is, my Son Jofepb s 
 Wife, and a Sly Slut fhe is, as little as they 
 think of her. But poor thing fhe s like to 
 come into a great deal of Trouble yonder ac 
 London , for a filly, fenfelefs Whim of mine, 
 that came into my Head, after reading the boo- 
 terkin Story, in the Female Phyfictan. 
 
 La. Ay, indeed ! Prithee be fo kind to tell 
 me the whole, and how ye contriv’d, and car* 
 
 ry’d it on. ... T , 
 
 ' Mid. Well, to be Sincere with your Lady- 
 fhip, I thought with my fclf, That if the Man 
 who had publilh’d that he had laid feveral \\ o- 
 men in Holland of Sooterkins, and all the other 
 Itrange things contain’d in that Book, has been 
 encourag’d and efteem’d, fo as to advertife m 
 the News-Papers, that a compleat Courle ot 
 Midwifery, (gc. was to be perform’d the tia 
 of September lift, by J. M. M. D. Author 
 of the Female Phyfician , and Midwifry brought 
 to Perfection. I lay, if he ftill goes on to teach 
 and inftruCt, and finds Encouragement, being 
 appointed as I hear, Phyfician to the New Pa- 
 rifh call’d St. George's , after what he has ad¬ 
 vanc’d in that Book > will it be any Wonder to 
 your Ladylhip, that if fuch grofs things cou d 
 pafs upon the Great Ones about your Great 
 City, thatthefe, and the like, might not eafily 
 be fwallow’d down in the Country ? This ve¬ 
 ry Thought mov’d me to beftir nay fclf howto 
 get a Penny, which I did, and would h avc 
 done more effectually, had it not been for a 
 certain Performer at Guilford. 
 
 La. Prithee, Dame, be frank with me, and 
 
 tell truly how ye did. „ „ 
 
 1 J Mid. Well, 
 
( 39 ) 
 
 t M u ‘ il Vd1 ’ finccI hav e promifed, 
 
 I will tell you the Truth i and if oneChrifti- 
 
 an can believe another, yourLadyfhip may be¬ 
 lieve me, when I lay I did not think any harm 
 rn it. 1 wrong’d no body, neither robb’d nor 
 murder’d, but innocently contriv’d (from the 
 broad Hints I had from the Author of The Fe¬ 
 male Pbyfician , how to palm an EngUJh Rab¬ 
 bet on the EngUJh Nation, as he had done fe- 
 veral Sooterkins upon the Dutch j and all the 
 Punishment I laid my Account for, let the 
 worft come to the worft, was only to be 
 laugh’d at as he was. 7 0 
 
 La. In what refpett was he laugh’d at? 
 
 Mid. Your Ladylhip may judge, when you 
 have heard thislhort, but merry Story, which 
 my Deputy fhall read to you. Go, Deputy , 
 take that Book without a Cover, that lyes in 
 the Corner Cupboard. 
 
 La. What is it called ? 
 
 Mid. The Sooterkin Dijfetted. 
 
 Dep. The Story is of two Italian Dames, 
 the one a Taylor’s Wife, the other a Gentle¬ 
 woman. The firft brought forth fomething 
 refemblmg a Rat, without a Tail } the other, 
 Something the Size of a Cat. Both of them 
 Were black, and when they came forth, ran 
 hig h up the Wall, and ftuck faft upon it with 
 their Claws. Now, fays he, had thefe two 
 been delivered at the fame time in the fame 
 Room, the Gentlewoman’s Cat had catch’d 
 the Taylor’s Wife’s Rat, and frighten’d the 
 operators with their yelling and fqueaking* 
 as you was with your Sooterkin. 
 
 La. This is a comical, merry Paflage, I 
 muft own. 
 
 Mid. And 
 
( 40 ) 
 
 Mid. And juft as true as his Sooterkins, and 
 his Women being turn’d into Men, or his 
 Women being brought to Bed in the Eleventh 
 Month, &t. or my Rabbets. Thefe, and 
 many more things in that Book put me upon 
 the Contrivance of the Rabbets. 
 
 La. As how, and after what Manner then, 
 Goodie ? 
 
 Mid. Being refolved to pufh fomething that 
 would fetch a little Money •, and having been 
 long in the Pra&ice of Midwifry, and never 
 met with any thing but what had a human 
 Likenefsi I thought, if I could put upon the 
 World any thing that was new and extraor¬ 
 dinary, I might partly anfwer that End : So 
 to Work I went, and finding our Mary as fit 
 a Tool for my Purpofe as any, I took the Ad¬ 
 vantage of a Mifcarriage, and having purcha- 
 fed the youngeft Live Rabbet I could get, I 
 ftripp’d and broke it, then lodg’d it in fuch a 
 Part as I could belt convey it to} and when 
 all was ready, the Gypfy performing her Part 
 of mimicking Labour Pains, and I mine, of 
 giving way to the Man-Midwife with Won¬ 
 der, who not fmelling the Trick, foon pro¬ 
 claimed the extraordinary Delivery, and fo 
 crown’d and approv’d my Induftry, and fpread 
 it far and near j and as mine came out piping 
 hot (being but juft kill’d before the Operator 
 performed his Part)} I believe he would have 
 given his Oath before any Judge, that fhe had 
 brought forth a Rabbet. So all went fmooth- 
 ly, without any Sufpicion, and I hugg’d my 
 felf with the Succefs. N. B. But under the 
 Ro/e t this Rabbet was a young Kitten. 
 
 Whether 
 
( 41 ) 
 
 Whether it was from his Want of Judg¬ 
 ment, or whatever other Defect, I will not 
 fayi but I’ll fwear, and on my Confcience do 
 believe, that if I could have been but fatisfied 
 with this Angle Rabbet, and not hearken’d 
 to that Goofe cap, H -r/, who was al¬ 
 
 ways for a Litter of them, after I let him in¬ 
 to the Secret, I make no doubt but our Mary's 
 Birth would have bamboozl’d all Mankind, 
 and Godaiming in England been as famous in 
 Hiftnry to After* Ages, as ever Lofdun in Hol¬ 
 land was j and drawn in as many People to pay 
 for feeing the Rabbet there, as ever were at 
 Lofdun to fee the Bafons, wherein Chil¬ 
 dren born at one time, were Chriften’d. 
 
 La. You bid very fair for ir, Goodie > and 
 I make no doubt, had you kept the Secret ro 
 your felf, and Mary kept confin’d to her Bed 
 at Godaiming , and never feen London , but ye 
 might have anfwer’d your Ends, and got Mo¬ 
 ney like Dirt. The more i think on’t, thef 
 more T fee it is a devilifh Invention. 
 
 Mid. Indeed fo do I, my Lady: The De¬ 
 vil, I believe, flung that Book in my Way, 
 and that Book put the Devil into my Head, 
 who aflifted me in contriving it: But it was 
 the Devil of a Dunderhead, who, in carrying 
 it on, marr’d all - y and I’m very much afraid 
 the Devil will have us both at latt. 
 
 La. Enough, enough of the Rabbet Sto¬ 
 ry at prefent, let us leave it till another Op¬ 
 portunity ; and let me hear fome of the won¬ 
 derful fine Language you fpoke of. 
 
 Mid. Go, Deputy , and bring thofe fine 
 Words you copied put of the Female Pliyfcian , 
 which we were to carry to the Parfon of the 
 F Parilh’s 
 
( 42 ) 
 
 Paris’s Di&ionary, to know their Meaning, 
 J3at now, my Lady, when I think on’t, I 
 can’t help laughing. 
 
 La. At what pray ? 
 
 Mid. At them all j for I think I have put 
 the Bite finely upon theip. As for the Coun¬ 
 try Man-Midwife, they who know him won’t 
 much wonder j but for that fuperfine Great 
 Debtor, who calls himfelf the King’s A-a-a- 
 tomift, that came twice down to Guilford in 
 i'uch bad Weather j that tofs’d our Mary up 
 in a fine Coach, and took fuch fine Lodgings 
 for her near the Prince’s Palace; I am ready 
 to burn, when I think how cleverly he was 
 bit. So much for Rabbets. Now, go on, 
 Deputy , and read over qhefe fine Words to 
 my Lady. 
 
 Dep. But more particularly, that the Andre • 
 Jdcethogynijl , p. 179. may be compleatly ac- 
 compiifh’d, I have called the ordinary one 
 Bcetkogrnifi , p. iy8. and the extraordinary 
 one Andro-Boethogynifl, for his excellent Skill, 
 f. i6p in thefe obftetricious Arts, p. 77. whofe 
 Authors make long Ambages , or Circumlocu¬ 
 tions, teaching how to perforate Secundines 
 with a Hair Needle, p. 304. hypothetically 
 oblerving, p, 19. no Proletarian Writer, f 
 but a Proculean Child, born in the Eleventh 
 Month, p. 148. by a prolifick Contribution, 
 p. 66. not by aggregated, or torpent Seed, 
 p. 198, but that which was fit for Nutricati- 
 on, p . 66 . occafioned by a Fever of Defire, 
 kindled into a ftartled Flame, p. f0. The Ef¬ 
 fect of a certain Congruity of Minds fympa- 
 thetically arifing from the Diafilole andSyftol? 
 ef affc&ed Hearts, p. 49. when Love did 
 
 bloom 
 
( 43 ) 
 
 bloom with Frefh Defires, and vigorous Incli¬ 
 nations, p. 49. Tho’, for all that it was buc 
 of fhort Duration, p. yo. yet many were the 
 Symptoms did after that attend its Augmen¬ 
 tation, p. 102. For when it became a Fretus 
 irt the Womb, it was obfheperous, p. 101. 
 becaufe there it. was blockaded, p. 504. in the 
 finilhing maturating Months, p. 301. when 
 Humours occafioned a mordacious Itching in 
 the Womb, p. 118. they threaten’d a rnafiii- 
 crous Death, p. 294. with an [ndefinity of 
 Accidents, p. 294. in a diftorted as well as ob¬ 
 ligated Petition, p. 297, when the Winds 
 were elevated from the Humours fermenting 
 in its Subftance, which together with thele 
 turgent tear its tender Tunicks, p. 313. with 
 a Vibration and Concuflionof the Skin, with 
 4 Coardtation of the Upper Belly, and a con¬ 
 comitant Chillnefs, p. 12 6. All which imbe- 
 cillitated the Parturient, becaufe of her inter¬ 
 nal Calidity and Depravation, p . 113. 
 
 Mid. The fineft Language in the verfal 
 World to be fure. Read on. 
 
 Dep. Sometimes from a Cholick infefling 
 the nervous Plexus a: iting from the Humours 
 aggregated about the Womb, p. 84. and pro¬ 
 ceeding from frigid Flatulencies in the Abdo¬ 
 men, p. 84. Sometimes lo exceffive, that I have 
 feen the Patient fall by its Extremity into a Ly- 
 pothymia Which generally prefages Abortion, 
 if not prevented by Difcutients, p. 84. In all 
 which Cafes it may be cur’d by variety of re- 
 fpedtive means, according to the Quaky of the 
 Caule, whether frigid, calid, ferous, faltifh, 
 or acrimonious, p■ 8/- with a prepofte'rous 
 Fltix proceeding from fotne Pi'ocatardtick Ac* 
 F i cident 
 
( 44 ) 
 
 cident, p. 8l. or from the Rigidity of the cir¬ 
 cumjacent Parts, p\ iop. and the Difeafe acute, 
 
 Ex Decidentia , p. 111. 
 
 Dep. The Author muft be a Foreigner to be 
 fure ? for no Englijhman would write fo j If 
 any, he’s a Flandtrkin , I can’t tell what Lingo 
 this is for my Blood. 
 
 La. Nor I neither truly. Read on. 
 
 Dep. From illuvious Evacuations p. 387'. fic- 
 cid Intemperatures, p. pf. fupprefs’d Albe- 
 dines, p. p4. all which are moft to be fear’d af¬ 
 ter the time of Animation, becaufe the Acetabula 
 or Cavities being then more ficcid, are more 
 eafily broken, p 114. Hence her Spirits are 
 exagitated or exalted, p. 38P. But if it come 
 from a Mordacity of the Mouth of her Stomach, 
 file’ll be infected with Faftidy, p. pi. which 
 proceeds from the Womb, p. pi. and occafions 
 d;fagreable Flatulencies, Belchings, and Flu¬ 
 ctuations, p, 8i. often Vomiting, which pro¬ 
 ceeds from the Vapours of the exhaled Hu¬ 
 mours, and the worfe Part of the Blood infeft- 
 ing theTunicks of the Orifice of the Ventricle, 
 and flying into the Cavity, p. 79. Or from the 
 Animal Spirits being praeternaturally expanded 
 in its orbicular, as well as oblong Fibres, and 
 the too quick and violent Exertion of their 
 elaftick Power, when it endeavours to ejeCt 
 through the QLjophagus, and Mouth, theCon- 
 tents ol its Cavity, p. 7p. in which Cafe Ante' 
 Kittean Medicines are to be us’d, p. 84. 
 
 Mid. Now, Madam, with your Book Lear- 
 ning, explain thefe Words, if you can, 
 
 La. I think he buries his Meaning in Words 
 which, I muft own, I don't underhand. But 
 go on. 
 
( 45 ) 
 
 Dep. Bat if the Aqua fuhhte flow, as ft 
 were by Diftillation, p. zS8. then, herftL 
 are tergiverfant, p. 214. and require the dex¬ 
 trous Touches, or ingenious Operations of 
 tne moie judicious ^ndvo-BoethogyniJis* 
 
 La_ The what? This is like Shake/pear, in 
 his Romeo and Juliet: Ah ! the immortal Pafla- 
 
 Qo, the Punto reverfo, the Hay- f The Pox 
 
 cf Juch antique Lifping , Affecting Phantaftes, 
 tbeje new turners of Accent _Jdu ! 
 
 Mer. Here's a Wit of Cheverel, that (hatches 
 jrom an Inch narrow to Ell bread. 
 
 Romeo. I'll ft retch it out for that Word 
 road, which added to the Goofe , proves the far 
 and wide a broad Goofe. Go on. 
 
 . De P- p™ is your time to raife the Womb 
 mto a refupme Pofture, p. 229. an d examine 
 the Ids oblique or median Pofitions, p. zpr. 
 confidering full the extenfive or afeenfive Fa¬ 
 culties of the Womb, which chiefly refide in 
 its Bottom, p. 200. the collocative and ordi¬ 
 nal ing Faculty, p. zi. the Womb’s preterna¬ 
 tural Size, either in Amplitude, or Exiguity, 
 P' l ^°- ar, d a protracted time of bearing to the 
 Uoie of the 10th or the nth Month, p. 58. 
 when I firft was convinced that an 11 th Month’s 
 t^hild was preferable to any Birth. • 
 
 Mid. Read me that over again, Deputy, to 
 the 1 ith Month ; that’s fomething very extra¬ 
 ordinary, indeed : I never knew a Woman 
 brought to Bed in the 11 th Month in my Time, 
 and I have practis’d above forty Years, and may 
 be his Great Grandmother for what I know, 
 
 I think his Births are almofl: as uncommon as 
 his Words. Well Deputy whatdoft think? hall 
 thou learn’d much from thefe fine Words? 
 
 Dep. Tru- 
 
(4 6 ) 
 
 Dep. Truly and really, I’m juft as wife as 
 I wasf If I’m ne’er to lay a Woman till I un¬ 
 derhand this Man’s fine Language, I fear I ne er 
 (hall do it while I breathe. If this be his new- 
 fafhion’d way of teaching Midwitry, Idefpair 
 
 ° f S ni He’saftrangeDab, I muftfay, at out- 
 of-the-way Words > l wifli his Head ben t out 
 of the way too. Mcthinks, it’s a burning 
 Shame, that thefe great Scholars fhould wn e 
 fuch things as no Body can underhand. At it 
 
 a8 i)i ^The Womb may be equally condens’d 
 by the Imbibition of the fluent Humours which 
 confolidate into it felf by the Pores of its plex- 
 ous Body, p. 201 . The Womb containsthcor- 
 eanizing Matter of all neceffary Princ,pies (Ac¬ 
 tive and Paffive) for conftituting the Concep¬ 
 tion } fomenting the receiv’d Seeds, by its natu¬ 
 ral Calidity preiervingthe fame, and preparing 
 the maternal Blood, by its inherent 1 etnp < 
 ment, for the Ufe of the Fmtus: which Fxtus 
 it furrounds and defends from external Acci¬ 
 dents, by its fubftantial Corpulency, p. iP&. 
 
 La. Moft excellent and exceeding fine Lan- 
 
 gU Mid. I was thinking fo, whenever your La- 
 dyfhip underftood him, ye would lay fo > mi 
 my part, it is the fame to me as if it were all 
 Greek ; I cannot guefs at the Meaning of one 
 Word. 
 
 Mid. Read. - 
 
 Dep. Mr. Mauriceau, in his Book of Wo- 
 m'ens Difeafes, has Recourfe to Inconfittencies 
 to fupport his new-falhion’d unreceived No¬ 
 tions. What Gomparifon can there be betwix 
 
( 47 ) 
 
 an animate and inanimate Body ? Or what Af¬ 
 finity between the Womb of Animals, and 
 that of a Woman form’d after the Ima^e of 
 God? p. ZOI. 
 
 Mid Now I underftand ; that’s good in¬ 
 deed ! Go on. 
 
 Dep. Whereupon this mod excellent Bce- 
 thogynifi: marks with a Bene notandum. 
 
 Mid. Now I'm out again. Prithee, Depu¬ 
 ty , try another Page. 
 
 Dep. No incfeed ; neither of thefe Bones can 
 be any great Hindrance to the Paffiige of the 
 Infant, fince all Bones, never fo clofely knit, 
 maybe moved extenfively onOccafion, p. ipy. 
 ———Now the Adfcions of the Womb are ma¬ 
 ny; it allures the Maf-ne S—d infuled by 
 
 Coition into the Fund of its Cavity, as a fa- 
 miihrng Stomach fnatches at Victuals; and fo 
 attrafling the Muliebrian S—d from the Te¬ 
 sticles into the fame Cavity, the laid Fundtion 
 of the Womb is the Copulatio-n of the Seeds, 
 or mutual Conjun&ion, &c. &c. p. ipy, ip8. 
 The Subltance of the Womb is folid and muf- 
 cular, p. ip8. and has two Sinus's for conceiv¬ 
 ing the two different Sexes; that if a Male 
 fhould be conceived of the Seed fallen to the 
 left Side, the Place deftinated for the Female, 
 he will make but a femi-virile Man; and fo on 
 the contrary, if a Female fhould be conceived 
 of the Seed fallen to the right Side, fhe will 
 have fome diftinguifhable Marks of Virility, 
 
 fuch as a large Stature --Members-■ 
 
 hairy Face, &c. 
 
 Mid. A learned Author indeed ! he goes to 
 the Bottom of every thing; fure he knows 
 every Creek and Corner of us, I wifh he could 
 
 cure 
 
( +8 ) 
 
 cure fotncbody’s Bottom that I know. He 
 tells us, that the Extenfive and Afcenfive Fa¬ 
 culties refide in the Womb’s Bottom, and that 
 they exert themfelves without the leaft Exte¬ 
 nuation to the Uterine Subftance, p. zoo. and 
 that the Spirits abfcond themielves in the 
 Womb’s Bottom, p. 6z. which is the very 
 Reafon, that if anything leap fuddenly on a 
 Woman with Child, the Mark of it will ma- 
 nifeftly appear on the Part, unlefs that very 
 Moment (he wipe the Part, and clap her Hand 
 to her Bottom, p. < 5 ?- Let the Anatomy 
 Folks fee to thele things, it’s none of my Bu- 
 finefs, more than it is to run after the Blood 
 that regorges to the major Veins, p. 44. and 
 fearch into Fluxes of Blood from thefe \ eflels 
 that Nature has referved for a Superf<etation-> 
 p. p8. or examine into the Neceffity of ex- 
 pureing the Blood, when it chances to be iu- 
 perfluous, ibid, nor whether Men have their 
 Menftrua , or Monthly Terms, -as we have, 
 * 188. which Evacuation Men themfelves are 
 aifo fubjeft to in a great Meafure (notwith- 
 ftanding theinconfiderate Detra&ions and vain 
 Talk on this Head ) fave only, that in them 
 the redundant Humour pafles off a d:‘“ er w 
 wav, by Urine, Nofe and Bottom, p 188. 
 nbr of the oblique and all the other Situations 
 of the Womb, p. 104. nor of the R ots ®t 
 the Umbilical Veflels, and a Thoufana other 
 things not to be fathom’d by me. 
 
 Mid. Read- Dep. Now for a Touch. 
 
 Ch. 14. Of 'Touching. - The Midwife ought 
 
 to have a Ipecial Knowledge in this Matte), 
 fince the Life it (elf depends on the 1 ouch. 
 ’Tis only paffing two Fingers thro’ the /' idva 
 
( 49 ) 
 
 Into the Vagina to reach the Orifice, and dif- 
 cern its Form. 
 
 Mid. That is, if your Fingers fee as well as 
 his do. Read p. 207. 
 
 Dep By the Touch a Midwife knows .whe¬ 
 ther a Woman in Labour be with Child, or 
 not, p. zop. when the Child’s Head is to be 
 felt, and when ye can get your Fingers round 
 it, you’ll know whether the Chines, Elbow, 
 or Buttocks prefent, bccaufe the one’s harder 
 than the other. 
 
 Mid. Provided you hare Skill enough. Read. 
 
 Dep. The Infant, at full Perfe&ion in Ma¬ 
 turity, and Completion in Vitality, p. 140. 
 fcorns any longer Confinement; for the Ani¬ 
 mal Spirits being difcontented for want of a 
 due Liberty and free Motion, the Vitals for 
 want of Refrigeration, and the natural Spirits, 
 for want of fufficient Refpiration, do all con¬ 
 cur to make a Commotion or (as it were) a vi¬ 
 ctorious Revolt, or an Effort pufhing for Con- 
 quelt, p. 217. Thus the Infant being irritat¬ 
 ed (an early Paffion) p. 227. immediately 
 (hakes off its Fetters, breaks the Ligaments, 
 rends the Membranes, thrufts thro’ the Inclo- 
 fures, and makes its moil vigorous Attempts 
 to enlarge it felf, feconded by a peculiar Fa¬ 
 culty that expels its troublefome and obftre- 
 perous Gueft. 
 
 La. What’s all this fine Language for 
 Goodie ? 
 
 Mid. Only his fine wav of telling us how 
 a Child comes into the World. 
 
 La. Prithee let Deputy read us fomething 
 about the Child j fure he has wrapt it up in 
 clean Linnen. 
 
 Dep. And 
 
 G 
 
( 5° ) 
 
 Dep. And thus, in fine, having piloted the 
 good Woman thro’ the throe Gulphs of Geft- 
 ation, Birth, and Child-Bed, and at laft brought 
 her into a fafe Harbour, we’ll provide for the 
 Safety of her Cargo, Seep. 3Zf. Firft I’ll con¬ 
 fide r the Nurie’s elegant and well perforated 
 Nipples, p. 332, In fhorr, fhe may be a good 
 Nurfe without abilaining from Wine or Con¬ 
 jugal Converlation, provided fhe’d nor give 
 Suck for an Hour or two after Copulation, 
 p. 333. and now Ch. 9. of Ablactation. 
 
 Dep. The Babe mud be unfwadled and re- 
 fwadled, p. 3 5f. and its Body rubb’d, not on¬ 
 ly for Conco&ion of its Aliments, but confoli- 
 dating its Members, and to be fhifted toties 
 quoties , p. 336. If it fits torpidly or drowfily, 
 frill and unaftive, it is a bad Sign* it is not 
 to ufe its Feet prematurely, p. 33 6. The Ab¬ 
 lactation is more aufpicioufly done in the en- 
 creafingthanthedecreafingof the Moon. The 
 Child will be out of Order, when fubitane'Uis 
 Inconveniencies join its Dentition, p. 2.49. if 
 the Meconium call’d Coliojho don’t follow with¬ 
 in an Hour or two after, a Suppofitory, fuch 
 as a Sugar Almond, anointed with a little boil’d 
 Honey, may be difcreetly us’d and manag’d to 
 purpole. 
 
 Mid. Hey ! hey ! this is a very fit Ointment 
 indeed! I always thought that Honey, when 
 boil’d, turn’d hard j ac leaft I always found it 
 fo. However, go on. 
 
 Dep. As to the fmall or puny Faults of Na¬ 
 ture, fuch as adiftorted or wry Mouth, a crook¬ 
 ed or flat Nofe, thick or flabby Lips, rough 
 or ugly Vifage, or the like Blemifhes, the 
 Child’s Body being tra&able like a Piece of 
 
 Wax, 
 
( 51 ) 
 
 Wax, or the Potter’s Clay, thefe may be judi- 
 eioufly corre&ed, and ingenioufiy amended 
 and a more deleftable and amiable Form given 
 to every Part j as in cafe of any Blemilh of the 
 Eyes, whether they be difcolour’d or fpark- 
 ling, dim or fiiort-fighted, fquint or goggle, 
 r °lling, or Goat-ey’d, a lovely black Colour, 
 and graceful Beauty, may be alio artfully given 
 P- 34 f. 
 
 Mid. Hey dey! what now ? thefe are fine 
 things indeed > but where’s the Man can do ’em, 
 I’m luch an old Fool, as to fancy, that what’s 
 born crooked can never be made llreight. This 
 brings to my mind a Comical Adventure between 
 acrooked Gentleman in his Cups, and a Link- 
 boy. The Gentleman, About the fmall Hours, 
 bargain’d for 6 d. to be lighted home} the Boy 
 perform’d his Parr, and demanded his Money; 
 the Gentleman fwore in hisufual way, God wend 
 Sirrah if I'll give you one Fur thing more 
 than 5 d. The Arch Rogue finding he could 
 make no moreon’t, Hares at him, Lying, Sir, 
 God mend you , God Almighty had better make 
 twenty freight Men , than mend fuch a crooked 
 Son of a Bitch as you are. 
 
 La. Halle now, dear Goodie, and come to 
 an End of all thefe fine Stories. 
 
 Dep. Women may conceive without any 
 virile A Hi fiance, merely by the Force of Ima¬ 
 ginary Venery, efpecially among lalacious Wo¬ 
 men, &c. In fine, don’c the necefficous, and 
 fuch as luffer Want, refrefh themfelves by the 
 Savour of our Difhes, aricfine hunger-fiarv’d 
 fatiate' themfelves merely by the Odours of our 
 Kitchenj as pofiibly may the Widow fill her 
 fill With her odd Imagination, and being debar- 
 G i red 
 
( S* ) 
 
 red the Enjoyment of her Paramour,., hug him 
 tacitely in her Bofom, and embrace him hearti¬ 
 ly, however abfent, in her Mind, &c. where 
 fhe may conceive, and that only by Imaginary 
 
 Venery. See P. 978, 379 - 
 
 La. Ha! ha! Goodie, ye can’t feed your Ca¬ 
 pons fo. . 
 
 Mid. No more can you, my Lady; This is 
 Food only forfuch F—lofophical Folks as our 
 Author, who is arriv’d to the tip top of Learn¬ 
 ing, by the Smell of Books that have Bells on 
 then Backfidej fuic the Sound or Chink of 
 Gold will make him rich, fince the bare Smell 
 of Victuals will feed him. 
 
 La. Ha! ha! ha! 
 
 Mid. Do’s your Ladyfliip know what you 
 laugh at ? 
 
 La. If I knew, Goodie, perhaps I would 
 not laugh. But I know what I know, that 
 is, that the Author knows not how many will 
 laugh at him, for prefuming, at one Stroke, to 
 
 cut off the whole Ch ■ ■ — ~ n Rel-n j and 
 
 I dare fay, had he known what he ought to 
 have known, he had not wrapp’d up his ufe- 
 ful Knowledge in fuch a Bag, or rather Pack - 
 age of obfolete , idle hard Words, not worth 
 our knowing, which no Midwife in England 
 knows, and I queftion if he himfelf knows 
 (for all he knows ) the Meaning of them, or 
 what he would be at. Now, Goodie, be- 
 caufe they are unknown to us, and perhaps 
 not worth our while to know, as they can be 
 of no Ufe to any but to the Owner, let them 
 even be difpofcd of to an Ufe we all know: 
 And therefore be it known to all Readers, that 
 the Contents of this Book are not worth our 
 
 know- 
 
( 55 ) > 
 
 knowing} for, upon my Word, I think the 
 A — r is a F—lofopher paft all undemanding, 
 whether he knows it, or not. Your Deputy 
 may read on to Doomfday, and know no more 
 than I do. 
 
 Mid. A Pox upon fuch Authors! that af- 
 fe& fuch Whims and new-coin’d Words, and 
 fuch Conundrum Stories as pleafe no-body. 
 Prithee, Deputy , fee, if thou canft read fome* 
 thing that will charm my Lady, 
 
 Dep. P. 49. Love is a wonderful voluntary 
 Separation of the Soul from the Body} the 
 Mind is in one Place, and the Body in another. 
 The Lover is nowhere, if not with his Love, 
 fo that he’s tranfported into his ObjeCt with 
 Satisfaction and Delight. Love overcomes all 
 things} it conquers Hearts, if accompanied 
 with a fervent Defire of Procreation, and 
 meets with fuitable Means of Generation, efpe- 
 cially, if wrapt up in its Object’s Admiration. 
 Then it’s at the Pinnacle of its terrene Hap- 
 pinefs, and at the utmoll Height of eager 
 Dcfires, often quench’d for a little in the Sex’s 
 Conjunction, which is Love’s Confummation. 
 
 La. Prithee, Goodie, come to an End, for 
 I begin to tire. 
 
 Mid. So much then, my Lady, for his 
 F—-lofophy, now for a fhort Scrap of his 
 Midwifry, and I have done. I’m told, my 
 La.!y, he has tranfmogriphied a plain Dutch 
 Man Midwife fo, that ye would fplit your 
 Sides, when you hear how. Read on. 
 
 Dep, P, 26(5. Which fourfold Situation of 
 the Womb may be rightly and properly com¬ 
 pared to the four cardinal Points of theCom- 
 pafs, as the reft of its oblique Situations may 
 
 be 
 
( 54 ) 
 
 be analogoufly adequated to the collateral and 
 middle Points, p. 270. for, becaufe as they 
 decline from the Meridian, and derive them- 
 felves from Eaft, Weft, North and South, fo 
 thefe are lets difficult Births, and branch out 
 from the four mentioned Extremities, fince 
 the Womb, like a Magnetick Needle, may 
 run quite round, and be ill feated every way, 
 or on every Side. Poor Whirligig! thoul’t 
 ne’er be at Reft; or, as fome fay, never fatif- 
 fied. Some will reje£t this ‘Thefts as falfe, or 
 new-fangled; but p. 204. they who are igno¬ 
 rant of this, are tneer blind Novices in the 
 Art of Midwifry; for repeated Experience 
 has taught myfelf and many others, the Cer¬ 
 tainty of this Truth, p. 20f, 
 
 P . 294 I obferve, that however confpicu- 
 ous and remarkable the Difference of thefe 
 preternatural Poftures may be, efpecially that 
 betwixt the four mentioned Extremes, and the 
 natural Situation of the Womb; yet I fear 
 there is too muchReafon to fulpedt, that this 
 Difference is but little known to rhe Genera¬ 
 lity of Pra&itioners in Midwiiry, I mean the 
 ordinary Bcethogynijls. 
 
 P. 292. If he Confequences of the Ignorance 
 of thefe great Truths being fatal, it would be 
 fupervacaneous, and altogether needleis, to 
 relume or repeat them ; wherefore l {hail once 
 for all exhort and adjure luch Midwwes as 
 have any Regard for their Neighbours Lives, 
 that they would qualify themlelves duly in 
 thefe excellent Poinrs of Knowledge: And 
 this I have the more Reafon to inculcate, be¬ 
 caufe I never yet knew an afliduous Midwife, 
 who was thus perfe&ly weft endued with the 
 
 eflen- 
 
C 55 ) 
 
 ^7 1 S Ual i ficati ° ni> of her P'ofefllon. Poor 
 
 Midwives. 1 pity your Ignorance , that never 
 
 . knew the Womb went round like a Maenetick 
 Needle before ! Go to School in New Bondftreet 
 'where you may have a Touch of him who lately 
 brought Midwifry to Perfetlion , and gives C om- 
 pieat Courfes of Midwif ry to Gentlemen Pupils 
 on reafonable Terms-j _ for 
 
 P. z8p Such Midwives as don’t throughly 
 underhand thefe Pofitions, and the Touch, 
 but place all then Hopes in Nature and divine 
 Mercy, are as nothing, and of no Effe£L 
 
 . P ' l 96 ', 11 , !? tru *: indee ^ it may be cbie&- 
 ?p that J di.fient in this Matter from moft 
 u not from all Authors; to which I anfwer 
 10 ihort, that thofe from whom I do differ 
 were never acquainted with this complicated 
 preternatura 1 Condition, but always fuppofed 
 the Womb to continue in its proper Place, 
 never dreaming of its various Motions, nor 
 lufpefting its oblique Situation, erronecufly 
 imagining all preternatural Births to proceed 
 merely from the ill Vafion of thelnfant. Bur, 
 
 ^ Z ^r°T faither c]uci<iate the true Srate ot 
 the Cafe, I know no Situation of the Infant 
 in the Womb more difficult or dangerous, 
 than the Head’s offering it felf -firft. So 
 much for DaventePs Situations. 
 
 La. I find now, Dame, there are contem¬ 
 ptible Animals of all Profcffions. , 
 
 Such learned Nothings, in fo flrange a Stile , 
 Amaze the Unlearn' V/, and make the Learned 
 
 ( [mile. 
 
 Mid. Your 
 
 ,0 
 
•( 56 ) 
 
 M'td. Your Ladyfhip has not heard Half the 
 
 fine Stuff in this fine Book. 
 
 La. I have enough of it, Goodie j and it 
 you’ll take my Advice, you’ll burn it. I would 
 
 rot have fuch ab—dy Book in my Clofet for 
 the World. 
 
 Mid. Why fo my Lady ? , f . 
 
 La. Becaufe, if any of my Daughters (for 
 they are young) fhou’d light on it, perhaps it 
 wou’d light them into Flames, not to be eafily 
 quench’d } and fo long, it may be, for what 
 
 can’t be conveniently had. 
 
 Dep. God blefs your Ladyfhip for your juft 
 Advice 5 I really believ'd it defenr’d no better 
 
 F \\did. However, it is a great Pity, fuch a fi ne 
 Book, that has coft fo much Pains, fhould be de- 
 ftroy’d in this manner, and a new Book too, 
 
 with Gilding on the Back on’t. 
 
 Dep. There lye thou, to be reduc d to Allies, 
 never more to offend chafte Ears, nor frighten 
 Child-bearing Women, nor be a Difgrace to 
 
 Midwifery. , 
 
 Mid. Even fo be it, farewelfor ever, dear 
 Female Phyftcian. I (hall ne’er read thee more.' 
 
 [The Lady and Midwife apart . 
 Mid. I thought fuch Words as thefe that 
 follow not fit for chafte Ears i however, your 
 Ladyfhip may or may not read them at your 
 Leifurc. There they are in a Paper apart. 
 
 ^DIS* 
 
A 
 
 DISSERTATION 
 
 O N 
 
 NER ATI O N. 
 
 Hoever will allow hirafelf fe- 
 rioufly to confider the ibrprizing 
 Mechanil'm of Animals l(eipecially 
 of a human Body) will readily in¬ 
 cline to admire, if not adore, its Maker. 
 
 He is (fays the Great Harvey) the right 
 pious Philoiopher, who deduceth the Gene¬ 
 ration of all Things from the eternal and 
 omnipotent Deity, upon whole Pleasure the 
 Univerfe depends •, nor do 1 think we ought 
 to contend by what Notion, we call of adore 
 this firft Agent (to whom all the Names' of 
 Veneration are moft due) that of Devs, N.i- 
 
 tura naturavs, - ot mundi for all Men 
 
 underftand him to be that Beginning' and 
 H End 
 
(U *) 
 
 End of all Things which is omnipotent and 
 everlafting, the Author and Creator of all 
 Things, in whom we live , move, and have our 
 Being, Aits xvii. v. 28. 
 
 By him Adam alone was created without the 
 Help of Man or Woman, Gen. i. v. 27. Ch. v. 
 
 v. 1. Luke fit. v. 38. 1 Tim. ii. v. 13. 
 
 By him Eve alone was made out of the Man 
 without a Woman , Gen. ii. v* 22. 1 Corinth. 
 
 vi. v. 8. 
 
 By him Chrifi alone was produced out of the 
 Subjlance of a Virgin without a Man, If. vii. 
 v. 14. Matth. i. v. 23. Luke i. v. 31, 3*5. And 
 by him the reft of the Offspring of Mankind were 
 procreated of both Man and Woman, Gen. i. "J. 
 26. Matt. xix. v. 4. So Cod created Man in 
 his own Image, Male and Female created he 
 them. 
 
 '■A Man cahnot fearch after a more auguft 
 Theorem, nor learn any Thing of more Ule 
 than this namely, how all Things are pro¬ 
 duced by an univocal Agent, or after what 
 Manner the fame Thing doth hill generate 
 the fame •, as the Son is born like the Fa¬ 
 ther, and the Vertues which do enoble a 
 Family, and the hereditary Vices alio, are 
 lbmetimes after many Generations tranf- 
 mitted fh Pofterity. 
 
 To give any fatisfaifcory Account of this 
 abftrufe Subjefr, the Generation of Animals 
 would require a Volume apart; and feeing 
 neither my Time, nor my narrow Limits, 
 (were I capable) will permit much to be faid 
 on the Head, it is to be hoped, the candid 
 and generous Reader will accept of ray En¬ 
 deavours. tho’ they fhould only ferve as an 
 
 ' Index 
 
( 59 ) 
 
 Index to excite the Curiofity of other?, point¬ 
 ing out in general the common Syftems and 
 thole Authors who have treated ’em beft. 
 
 Amongft the many who have attempted this 
 Subjeft, I have met with none (all Things 
 confidered) that come up to the learn’d and in¬ 
 defatigable Harvey, whofe happy Genius ren¬ 
 der’d a toillome Infpeftipn into Animals his 
 great Delight. 
 
 His wonderful Genius, and profound Judg¬ 
 ment, with his amazing Skill in Anatomy, 
 acquir’d by immenfe Labour, and vaft Expe¬ 
 rience inDiffeftions /'when in purluit of the 
 Circulation of the Blood wou’d not of tdiem- 
 
 felves have been fufficient to enable him to en¬ 
 rich the Republick of Learning with fuch a 
 valuable Treafure as his immortal Piece. Ac 
 Getierrinone Animalium ; had not the Bounty and 
 favour of his royal Mailer, who was mighty 
 curious in, fuch Refearches himfelf, granted 
 him ftore of Deer to difieft at his Pleafure, by 
 which Means (confidering his unwearied In- 
 dullry) he may be faid to have been thefitteft 
 i and ndoft likely Perfon then in being, to hand 
 . ^°. wn t0 us Oblervations by which Yomething 
 
 might be certainly concluded concerning the 
 Generation of viviparous Animals. 
 
 He hasfet down nothing but what he fav 
 with his Eyes, and what his mafte'dy artful 
 Handdilfefted j this was the Path he cor.ftant- 
 ly purlu’d, as the lureft Way to the Know¬ 
 ledge Of Truth ; nor has he deliver’d any 
 Thing that would nptftand the Teft of ocu¬ 
 lar Infpeftion of others,, as well as his oivn , 
 .ib that lie bids his Reader trufl nothing he fias 
 laid elSoutr' tfre Geriei^ifotf tfc Arfftndlsf for- I 
 H 2 appeal. 
 
( 60 .) 
 
 appeal (fays he) to none but thiu* tom 
 
 E He* tells us, That is a perfeft Animal that 
 can beget its like. He has diftinaiy explain¬ 
 ed fir ft in an Egg, and afterwards m other 
 Conceptions oi feveral Creatures, what is con- 
 ftituted firft, and what laft. . 
 
 He has ihew’d in the Race of oviparous 
 Creatures, as Hens, Geefe, &e. and of vivi¬ 
 parous, as Sheep, Dees, and all Cattle that 
 divide the Hoof, and in chief (the perfefteft 
 of all Creatures) Man himlelf, the Manner, 
 Order and Caufes of Generation,^ becaufe all 
 ether Creatures agree, either generically or fpe- 
 cifically with the aforefaid, at leaft with fome 
 of them, and are procreated after the lame 
 Manner of Generation, or elfe in a Manner 
 proportion’d to it} for. Nature being divine 
 and perfeft, is always confonant to her felf in 
 the lame Things. . 
 
 Having given his Reafons why he begins 
 with a Hen’s Egg, he lays, It is an ealy Mat¬ 
 ter to oblerve out of them which are the. 
 moft evident and diftinft Ground- Works of 
 Generation, and what Progrels Nature makes 
 in Formation, and with what wonderful Pro¬ 
 vidence ihe governs the whole Work. He 
 tells us, that there is an Agent, in an Egg, 
 and alio, that this Agent, which is exiftent in 
 the Egg, and in every Seed, is fo infpi- 
 red with Power from the Parents, that it 
 falhions the Chicken to the Likenels of the 
 Parents, and that a mixt Likenefs too, as 
 proceeding from them both united in Coi¬ 
 tion •, and fince all Things are tranfatted with 
 an admirable Providence and Wifdom, the 
 
 prefence 
 
( 61 ) 
 
 Prefence of the divine Deity is clearly im¬ 
 plied. 
 
 According to what he has difcourfed of the 
 Hen’s Egg, we are to conclude and give Judg¬ 
 ment concerning all Kinds of oviparous Pro¬ 
 ductions. So that his Hiftory of the Genera¬ 
 tion of a Hen’s Egg is fufficient, and full e - 
 nough for the Knowledge of the Generation 
 of all other oviparous Creatures befide. 
 
 In Exerc. 73. He tells us, that all vivipa¬ 
 rous as well as oviparous Animals are, in 
 fome Sort, produced out of an Egg. That 
 all living Creatures mu ft, of Neceffity, have 
 a Principle, out of which, and by which they 
 are begotten. And this is as true, that the 
 Thing which is called Vrimordium , the firft 
 Rudiment in fpontaneous Productions, Semen 
 the Seed in Plants, and Ovum the Egg in ovi¬ 
 parous •, the fame Thing in the Generation of 
 viviparous Animals, is Conceptus primtu. 
 
 Man is the moft confummate or compleat 
 Animal of all other y as he has obtain’d all o- 
 ther Parts more perfeCt than they, fo are 
 his genital Parts alfo, and therefore the ute¬ 
 rine Parts are moft diftinCt in a Woman, and 
 to us ("by Reafon of the lpecial Induftry of 
 Anatomifts about this Part) better known for 
 a particular Defoription, of which f eeDe Graaf y 
 Swamerdam , &c. 
 
 It would be vain to inquire after any other 
 Modus of Generation in Mankind and Qua¬ 
 drupeds, than in Hens and Birds. 
 
 All living Things do derive their Original 
 from fomething which doth contain in it both 
 the Matter and efficient Virtue and Tower, 
 which therefore is that Thing, both out o-f 
 
 which 
 
< «X > 
 
 which, and by which, whatfbever is born 
 doth deduce its Beginning. Primordfum} the 
 firft Rudiment, Egg, or what they pleafe to 
 call it, from which an Animal doth fpring, 
 as Plants from their Seed. 
 
 Nullum ammaiivm genus exors eft- oripnis ae 
 ovo. Plut. Symp. 2. Qu. 3. See Drelincovrt at 
 large, de faminarum ovis, either within or with¬ 
 out their Ovan&q'wherb every Thing is to-be 
 •met with, that has been hinted by'the Learned 
 on that Head. 
 
 That Eggs are to be *found not only in 
 Birds, Fifties/C^r. but in all Animals, in Qua¬ 
 drupeds, and even in Woman her felf, is 
 plain beyond difpute.—In Rabbets, Hares, &c. 
 they have been oblerved not to exceed the 
 
 Bignefs of Rape-Seed.-In Swine andSheep 
 
 the Bignefs of a Pea.-In Cows, of a Cher¬ 
 
 ry } but it is to be oblerved, that even in all 
 thefe Animals many fmaller ones are to be 
 difcerned, which in Sheep by Age and fre¬ 
 quent Coition change. See on this Head the 
 curious Steno de ovU & oviduttibus in Aft. Med. 
 Blaffi). Hippocrates, in his Book ■crtgi rut/XlH&toV 
 which lie elponles for his own, has lliewn 
 himfelf to be the firft on Record that ever 
 attempted to -fearch into our primordia 
 dot itMtnv ii >tj yrheioM, &c. let twenty and 
 more Eggs under Hens, that he might faith¬ 
 fully learn their Growth, and removing one 
 each Day, took its Shell off, and made his 
 Obfervations • and alfo was the firft who 
 compared the Bud of a humane Foetus with 
 that of a Hen’s Egg ; for out of Eggs he open¬ 
 ed after Incubation the laid cpvi9@^ -xml |vpi6o O'* 
 Ae T/i r v>i «i'3gto7r5 cpvVe, lb compar’d Man’sOri- 
 

 ( " 
 
 ginal with that pf Birds. The firft difcover’d 
 recent Embryo’s fwimming in their pellucid 
 Liquids, he compared to raw Eggs ihinin.? 
 with their Shells off, and obferved a Geni § 
 
 itTShe^ DayS likC the raW EgS withou ^ 
 
 Haft thou not found me out as thick MIL and. 
 curdled me like Cheefe, Jobx. 10. Thus the di¬ 
 vine Hippocrates, fpeaking of th e femina paren- 
 tum, nrft they are mix’d, then condenfed 
 and grow together, and elfewhere Cqmeineun- 
 tur atque Coagmentantur. ^ 
 
 Galen, his faithful Interpreter, tells us, that 
 all the Eggs of viviparous Animals are bred 
 withm, and fp out of an Egg an Animal is 
 Ihaped within a Woman. Thus did Oriba- 
 
 [ms, and the other learned Ancients write_ 
 
 As Nature’s Book is the very fame now as 
 it has been ever fmce the Days of Adam, and 
 was, fois it ftiil open to Mankind, and ever 
 will be to our lateft Pofterity, wherein thev 
 may exercife themfelves in.its-Study, as did 
 thele lagacious and induftrious Ancients. 
 
 The celebrated Dr. Charles Drelincourt, who 
 has read all the Ancients and Moderns on this 
 subject, has delivered us their Opinions in 
 a moil elegant, fuccinft and accurate Manner, 
 and explained their various Sentiments on the 
 Concepcion, Formation, Nutrition and Birth 
 or the Foetus, to whofe Qpufcula varia I beg 
 Leave to refer the Curious, after I have men¬ 
 tioned but a few Circumftances as he relates 
 them. 
 
 Anno 1666, he was then firft convinced by 
 the famous Faber, a Jeluit, that every Con- 
 Ce f cioi i was truly an JEge, evm vitello quidem 
 
 : earths 
 
( 64 ) > 
 
 carens , & put amine non tamen tunicis & albumine. 
 That in England he met with a Mifcarriage 
 of three Months in Dr. Refers Wife, the Big- 
 refs of a Swan’s Egg fwimming in its tran¬ 
 sparent Tunicles. At Naples he was firft con¬ 
 vinc’d that all viviparous Animals, and even 
 Mankind were born of an Egg, by Thomas 
 Cornelius . — That Gaffcndus ingenii fiupendi & 
 turn* fam£ (as he fays; ihow’dhim Embryo’s 
 of Ii, 25 40, and 42 Days, a 5 th of about 
 60 Days, like raws Eggs without their Shells. 
 _Then, when at the Heighth of his Enqui¬ 
 ries, Dr. Harvey , that glorious Luminary of' 
 Great Britain , whofe reviving Rays breath’d 
 Health and Life to the Commonwealth of 
 Learning, taught him. That omne Animal gig- 
 nitur ex w, That every Animal is born of an 
 Egg* 
 
 Now how the femen virile reaches the Ovary f 
 and how it fecundates one, two or more Ova 
 and how when fecundated, they are forc’d 
 from the Ovary thro’ the Tube into the Vterus, 
 feems to be the grand Plea, that has occafi- 
 oned fuch Difputes in the Schools, and the 
 Saining fo much Paper. 
 
 Some have maintain’d, that the Male Semen 
 reaches the fundus Uteri, and thence afeends 
 thto’ the Tubes to the Ovary : Others, not 
 without Reafon, deny this, and fay, that the 
 colium Vteri is too dole to admit the Semen, but 
 of its A feent thither, nothing certain was ever 
 determin’d until Frederick Rhuyfch , an experien¬ 
 ced Anatomift at Amsterdam, affur’d the World 
 in his The four us, &c. that he found a white 
 Liquor both in the ZAera* and Tubes of a Woman 
 he had differed immediately after {he had been 
 hilled in the Aft of Adultery. Yet 
 
( *5 ) 
 
 Yet the induftrious Harvey has faid, That 
 the Geniture of the Male doth not fo much as 
 reach the Cavity of the Uterus, much lefs ar 
 bide therefor any Time, that it doth derive 
 Fecundity to the Uterus only by 'a kind of 
 Contagion. The Uterus doth exercife the pla- 
 ftick generative Power, and procreateth its 
 , own Like ; fo the Conception is made in Utero , 
 j as we fee with our Eyes, and think with our 
 i Brains. 
 
 But this plaftick, prolific]?, formative, or 
 j architeftonick Power, attributed to the Ute¬ 
 rus, does not leem to fatisfy the Curious, fo by 
 them exploded, tho’ maintain’d by Galen , his 
 { Followers, and the modern Anatomifts, as 
 Plempius, Faber , Orcham, JOiemerbroeck, Barth, dec. 
 nor doesthe Conception from a Mixture of both 
 Semina , according to Everhard and many more, 
 and La Motte, a famous Accoucheur, in his 
 t Dilfertation upon Generation, at Pans, 1718. 
 
 .. , Nor from the magnetick Attraction of the 
 
 3. Uterus , banifhed by the Platonifs, and revived 
 
 ( , by fome Moderns. •-- Nor from the Vis -Infit a 
 
 or lngenita of Fernelius , nor the vis prolifea of 
 4 Tf.azx.onus> — Nor-the rude and grofs Cornea* 
 rifbn of Vanhorn’ s, of the Rennet coagulating 
 
 the femen virile cum [anguine flxmineo. -Nor of 
 
 the Plafie vivifico o(Fortunius Licetus, yet more 
 I( i horrid than his Book of Monfcrs. 
 g That the Ova are fecundated in the Ovary, 
 is beyond Difpute : But how they are impreg* 
 nated, or rather, how the Male femen reaches 
 * them, is ftill difputed. Whether it be by its 
 more fpirituous and fubtile Particles ? ^cr the 
 Aura feminahs, Harvey mentions ? or the Am- 
 I mala <44 
 
 i 
 
 u 
 
 v 
 
( «<s ) 
 
 malpiU in the Male fmen ? is fuhmitted to the 
 
 Judicious. . , , 
 
 What thefe Animalcules are ? whence they 
 have their Origine? how they differ in young 
 vigorous Perfons, from old pocky ones ? how 
 they are darted forth > and what’s neceffary 
 for that end ? See Hartfoeker (who fays he was 
 the ftrft who dil'covered them) Suite des Cotije - 
 Shires Phyjiques , Amfi. I708. 
 
 That one, two, or more Eggs (as one, 
 two, or more Grains of Corn, when thrown 
 into the Earth, will produce one, two or 
 more Ears of Corn,) when fecundated by the 
 Mai e fcmen, will produce fo many Foetus' 1 s, is 
 without Doubt. Ahftotle mentions five Chil¬ 
 dren at a Birth, fo do many more Authors. 
 JJrclwcourt faw five at Paris, and the daily Ex¬ 
 perience of our own as well as former Ages, 
 confirms this Truth, tho’ rarely.. How the 
 Semen coities at the Ova ? by what Paffage? whe¬ 
 ther up the Vterus , thro’ the Tubes, or imbib’d, 
 (as forne would have it) by the vaginal and ute¬ 
 rine Velfels, where circulating, it ferments 
 with the Mafs of Blood, and enters into the 
 Ova, fo impregnates them, one, two, or more,, 
 by the fmall Branches of Arteries, which are 
 upon its Membranes, and ripen it, or them, for 
 their falling off, is likewife left to the Curi¬ 
 ous. 
 
 Upon the Whole (be thefe as they will) we 
 may conclude. That the true Seat and Princi¬ 
 ple of Generation is to be found in the Ovaries , 
 that when one, two, or more, are fecundated 
 by the Male Semen, they ripen, and in due Time 
 fell out of the Ovary into the Tube, whole flag 
 Endj like the large End of a Trumpet, clafps 
 
< *7 ) 
 
 round the Egg, fo receives it, and cordufrs the 
 fame to the Fundus Vteri, where it fixes, and 
 like a Shrub takes Root in order to Nutrition, 
 &c. unlefs by fome Accident it be denied u 
 Paffage, lb either fall into the Cavity of the 
 abdomen, or flay in the Tube, till its full 
 Time, of which we have many Inftances, from 
 the Authors of our own Time, as well as of 
 former Ages, Men of unfpotted Characters, 
 belides the. many Obfervations made upon 
 Brutes by the ableft Anatomifts, and molt ac¬ 
 curate Searchers into Nature. That Fmcs's 
 have been form’d in the Ovaries, will appear 
 plain from thefe three following Obfervations, 
 which the Curious may fee at large; 
 
 The Firft is from St. Mere's Letter to Dr. 
 de la Clofure, April 2 6, 1682 . 
 
 The Second is from a Dilfertation upon thy 
 Structure and Vie of the V terns communicated 
 by Dr. Picuffens, and inlerted in the laft Edi¬ 
 tion of P‘rheyen s Anatomy, called anObferva- 
 tion of Dr. Montagnier, a celebrated Phylician 
 at Montpelier, upon the Formation of an human 
 Foetus in an unuftial Place, An. 1697. 
 
 The Third is from the Tran laft ions of the 
 Academie des Jciences , An. 1701, reported by 
 Monfieur de Littre. 
 
 That Foetus's have been found in the Cavity 
 of the Abdomen, thefe following will Ihew. 
 
 The Firft is from Oldenberg, who An. 1679, 
 took a Fatus out of the Cavity, &c. See Bad- 
 thol, L. 1. c. 27 . dr alios. 
 
 The Second is from the Academic des [deu¬ 
 ces, and diftinftly, defcribed by Monf. Saviard, 
 an experienced Hofpital Surgeon : See his Re¬ 
 in tilde Chintrrie. €$~c. 
 
 I 2 The- 
 
() 
 
 The Third is from Court ial a Earned Phyfi- 
 clan at Thoulon , his Anatomical Oblefvations, 
 where a Male Fatvs , perfectly form’d, was 
 
 found in the Cavity of the Abdomen, &c - 
 
 The Fourth from John Baptifta Bianchi, an ac¬ 
 curate Phyfician, and excellent Anatomift, at 
 Turin, An. 1714- . 
 
 And as for Tubaridn Conceptions, iome of 
 thefe following are Proofs to a Demonftration, 
 that Foetus's have been detained there after 
 they had arrived attheir full Growth. 
 
 The Firft is-frefh in our Memories, commu¬ 
 nicated by Paul Bhiffiere an eminent Surgeon 
 and expert Anatomift at London. See the Tran- 
 iaftions for January 1694. , 
 
 The Second is from dc Gradfut the End of 
 his Chap. Dc tmlicrvm genital thus,hove owed from 
 Vaffalius a fworn Surgeon at Paris. 
 
 The Third is from the Acad, des Jem. 
 An. 1702. 
 
 The Fourth is from Monf. du Verney the molt 
 indefatigable and beft Anatomift of France. 
 N. B. No PaJfage into the Uterus could be 
 found, neither by blowing, nordnje&ion. See 
 VAcad, des feien. &c. ' 
 
 The Fifth is from Dr. Cyprianus, Profelfor of 
 Anatomy and Surgery in Franecjuer,w hofe great 
 Sudcefs in cutting for the Stone at London for 
 many Years, rendred his Memory favoury to 
 all ingenious Men^ lee his Letter to Sir Tli.Mil- 
 lington Prefident of the College ot'Phyficians in 
 London, where the whole Affair is learnedly and 
 moft diftinftly narrated, together with many 
 other very ufeful practical Observations, and 
 judicious Refieflions. 
 
 This Foetus, full grown, was Twenty three 
 •• • Months 
 
( « 5 ) 
 
 Months in the “Tube, and was taken thence by 
 his own Hand:, after a large Incifiori, 17. Dec. 
 T694, and may now be feen in Sir Hans Sloan's 
 Collections. 
 
 Let thefe, out of the many I cou’d ad¬ 
 duce, fuffice. -- In Rabbits the very Ova 
 
 themfelves have been feen to pals the Tubes ; 
 and not only the Ova, but the Foetus it lei f, has 
 been found in the Tube , confirmed by De Graaf , 
 Riolan, and many other Anatomifts. 
 
 De Graaf fays, That in diflefting feveral A- 
 nimals poft Coitum , he always obferved an In¬ 
 flammation of the outward Membrane of the 
 Ovary , the next Day after Conception yin two 
 Days the Inflammation increafed, a little aftejf 
 he found the Membrane broken, and a final I 
 Bladder in the Womb. 
 
 To infifl: here upon what Anatomifls have 
 advanced on thefe Heads, would be needlefs, 
 after what has been faid, and altogether incai - 
 fiftent with my Brevity : Wherefore, I fhall 
 conclude this, with what a great Phy/iciau 
 has pronounced on this Subject: — i hat it.% 
 manifeft, that the Ovum is fecundated, and 
 rendered prolifick by the Male Semen , io for¬ 
 ced out of the Ovary thro’ the Tube into the 
 ZJtcrus,f 6 r itsNourifliment and Growth there, 
 &c. And that it ever was fo from the Crea¬ 
 tion of Adam, and ever will be fo to thedaft 
 Day, by fucli an irrevocable Law, that no 
 Mortal is, or ever fhail be otherwise conceived. 
 —For in a mortal Animal, this is immortal. 
 
 Now, Whether Women, by the Force of 
 Imagination, or otherwife, can generate and 
 bring forth any Animals but of the human 
 Species, is what remains to be difcuifrd^^ 
 
( 70 ) 
 
 Were my Time, ot the Limits of this fo¬ 
 yer ficial BfTay, equal to my Inclinations, I 
 could launch into a large Field, tv here, for 
 the Honour of Truth, and Dignity of human 
 Nature, I could place moil, if not all thefe 
 Stories of Births differing from the Species, in 
 a true Point of Light, refute them, and plain¬ 
 ly lhew, that not ohe of an Hundred will 
 hand theTeftofa judicious Enquiry, howe¬ 
 ver well they may feem atteftedj and what¬ 
 ever be their Characters who have related ’em. 
 Nor can I think the Difficulty COiild be great 
 to prove one, and all of them, fa Lie, inconfi- 
 ftent with the Laws of Nature, and to be on¬ 
 ly the bare Effects of Hearfays. 
 
 1 Ihall pafs by the many ftrange Births rela- 
 tedby Herodotus, Pliny, and others, longfmce 
 exploded 5 as l do innumerable others irapo- 
 ied on the more iimple Ages •, nor Ihall 1 fo 
 much as notice what Lucretius fays, Crefcebant 
 •Vttri tern radtcibus apti , that the Earth brought 
 forth Mankind- — Nor how Minerva was 
 Midwifed into the World by the Dint of a 
 
 Hammer out of Jupiter's Brain.-Nor how 
 
 Pyrrhus and Deucalion raifed Mankind by Stones 
 thrown behind them.-—-Nor inlift on thofe 
 mythological Gods born in the Brains of the 
 Poets, worshipped by the People, and laugh’d 
 
 at by the Phijolophers.--1 Ihall all'o omit all 
 
 the wonderful Effects of holy Obedience a - 
 mongft the Monks in the Eaft, as well as the 
 Magicians in Egypt, whole miraculous Stories 
 
 rendred them ridiculous.-Nor Ihall I dwell 
 
 on the Miracles laid to be wrought by thfe 
 Monks of Thehais, not only in Favour of Men, 
 but alio in Favour of wild Beafts, with which 
 
theyinrertf faid tobe very Maart&fe^. 
 then all pious Frauds, ait pretended MiracleS 
 Mid other -Abiurdities recorded in Legends F 
 will fay with Moaf. LeClerc, ATJttt if Men will 
 believe!. every Thing without examining, thev 
 will run the Hazard of being always deceived 
 by confounding Truth with Falfhood; and if 
 they believe nothing, they deprive themfelves 
 oirhe Knowledge of Truth. 
 
 Akippeswxs laid, for a Punilhment, to have 
 been in Labour, and brought forth an Ele- 
 phant, Pliny /. 7. c . 3. — Argos or Aides to Have 
 brought forth a Lion, ib. — The Counted of 
 Holland to have been delivered of 3 <jc Chil¬ 
 dren at one Birth. — A Lady at Antwerp of a 
 Dog, Party. L 24. c. 1 2. fonte of Serpents, — 
 Moles, — Birds, — and innumerable other 
 Animals. 
 
 The Woman in Holland, who afted her Farce 
 fo cleverly as to deceive the Doctors with the 
 „ l " oa ^ i ' n g °f Frogs, of which die pretended her 
 Womb was-full, and that fhe often brought 
 them, forth, corrfelled the Cheat on her Death¬ 
 bed. — The young Woman Salmuth fpeaks of, 
 who vomited up a Fmtut the Length of one’s 
 Finger, the 13. of July 1605, not daring to own 
 her Mifcarriage, threw this Foetvs into a 
 Uiamber-pot, wherein another Woman had 
 vomited a little before; and lb by a little dex- 
 trou.vManagement, faved her Reputation. 
 
 The Story of Amatus Lufitanns , of the Wi¬ 
 dow that proved with Child by what fhe re¬ 
 ceived from the other, forte ed hord a marito 
 [ccdens cum tjno rent habuerat^ <&c. is ridiculous, 
 a ” d no Faith can be given to fuch Things, let 
 4 «em fwear what they pleale, Such a Prank 
 
 as 
 
(’ 72 ) 
 
 a* this was plaid at Lijle in Flanders, but on a 
 Procefs it was plainly made out, thar the Hub 
 band, not his Wife, had done it. — Simbaldus 
 L. x • c. 14. fays, A Midwife at Rome told him 
 of a Woman that got a big Belly in a Bath, 
 fucceeding a young Spark* — Another proved 
 with Child, Quia confederat alvum exonerandi 
 gratia in latrina , quam paulo ante afftnis juvenisky- 
 meneum celebrando mantbus poiluerat. Upon which 
 lays Lamz.'veerde, O comment urn futile! Overam 
 anieularum fabellam ! Thefe and the like Stories 
 are only contrived to cover the lafeiviousWan- 
 tonnefs of Women, and conceal their vicious 
 and unlawful Amours. The impious Stories 
 of Devils, Incubus's and Succubuss that were 
 Spirits, and inflamed with the Love of Wo¬ 
 men, which feme vainly report, are not worth 
 refuting. — It the Divines would vouchlafe to 
 conlirtt the Writings of th‘e modern Anato- 
 mifts, they would no longer fuller themlelyes 
 to be impofed on by an imaginary Attraction 
 of the Womb, or led afide by fuch falfe Re¬ 
 ports of wicked Women, unlefs they prefer 
 Fables to Truth, or Trifles to ferious Things. 
 
 Levinus Lemnius , L. 1 • Cap. 8. de occultis natu* 
 ya miraculis , advances a ftrange Story of a 
 Mole, which occalioned a certain Author to 
 lay he could give no Faith to fuch a Man who 
 tells us Things more occult than his Book of 
 Occult Miracles -, and juftly ridicules him for 
 that as well as what he hadfaid upon Children, 
 when born with the Galea or Helmet (as.the 
 Midwives call it) which is nothing but a Bit ot 
 the Membrane Amnios , flicking to the Child s 
 Head, than which nothing is more common: 
 And heartily laughs at Lemnius , as well as 
 
 Liebaut, 
 
Liebaut, and others, who would have tins Gap 
 pfefage good Luck, as they tell us from oid 
 
 Womens Tattles.-'t'he Zealot Fu Vul would 
 
 have us believe, a Francifcan Monk rauft have 
 been its father, becaufe it was born with a 
 Hood on its Head; and that it portends ftrange 
 Things, not only the old Mations, but the 
 Authors of occult Philolophy, have babbled 
 about. This fine Writer will have but little 
 Faith given to his Cacata Charta, and thus he 
 ends \ Nugigerulis ergo vane ant, C~ ifla multercu- 
 larum ultimo nug a quas merito Lcmnius dcl.ris igna- 
 
 rifquc merit ibas refert accept as.' - Nam tales cffu- 
 
 cias qua fuo fuco credulis animis errorem ojfuneiunt . 
 Lucina horret ae prajicis tradit aternum lugendas. 
 
 A Dutchman (lays Leonard Bertrand) called 
 Ludovick Rofcet, after nine Months Pain in one 
 ofhis Legs, brought forth a living Child that 
 was chriftened 1350. 
 
 The numerous Inftances ot Women bring¬ 
 ing forth by the Mouth, are no better found¬ 
 ed than on idle Hear fays.— ! am grieved f laid 
 one) to fee the Great Bart haline hand up for fuch 
 Trifles.—The impious Paracelfus merits no Re¬ 
 gard, who dream’d he could raile Mankind by 
 placing the Sem. hum. in a Dunghill Heat : O ve- 
 fanas homlnum meritcs! O peElora c<?ca ! & damo~ 
 num prajligiis irreuta. — Nor Borell s Story of 
 greater VVcight,- Cent, 1. ObJ. 28. of a Filhthat 
 bred out of the Finger ot a Pilherman, its Seed 
 hayloii inlinuated itlell into a Wound made 
 there by a Filh-hook.— Of a-piece wit)i this 
 is the Story of Heredias, ot a 1 horn that flou- 
 vilhed everv tear out of a Shepherd’s Side.— 
 Noj- does Rofemra>iz.ius s JHola merit any *hore 
 Credit than theie, becaule in fuch Cates Mtd- 
 K wives 
 
( 74 ) 
 
 wiy.es .afe not to be believed, who firft broach¬ 
 ed them,; for Thoufands of them are Cheats 
 and JmpOftofs, dpecially in Germany and the 
 Northern Regions, where Superftition and 
 Cteciufity reign in the Female Sex. I am 
 ftthfied, if fuch Stories were narrowly en¬ 
 quired into, they would undoubtedly be 
 found to amount to no more than what' Augu- 
 fti.n 'Herman met with upon differing a Woman, 
 who voided by StOol, red, black, And blue 
 Silk, various final! Bones, Sticks, and Straws, 
 as in Obf 71. I found (lays he) nothing in either 
 her Stomach, or Guts, nor the leajl Vcftige of Tn- 
 chant merit ; fo that the’ Ouefiion is. Whether this' 
 Woman was inchanted? or did fhe deceive her Do¬ 
 ctors ? 
 
 In all odd, out-of-the-way Stories, efpecially 
 Births, we ought to ask, whether their Au¬ 
 thors be well informed of the Truth of what 
 they advance? Or, whether they have them' 
 a't lecOnd-hand, lb only ipeak upon Hearfay ? 
 Whether they themlelves were deceived; or 
 did: they def'gh to deceive others? In Ihorf, 
 Wh ef hf r they d i d really fee' thefe Things they 
 rh^iipon, and : carefully examined them before 
 they let them down, a'nd if they were Judges 
 of wf at they related ? 
 
 Such groundlefs idle Stories, handed from 
 cite,’to' another, until feveral' Impreffions, in 
 ieveral hooks, have given them a Shadow of 
 Confirmation, and as it were a droit de Bour- 
 jrroife, ffw will venture to contraditt. Tims' 
 one led into an’ Error, may draw in a Thou- 
 fa'hd, and fo the’Generality of fuperficial Rea¬ 
 ders are reduced tot he Neceffitv of fwallowing 
 the greateft Abfnfdities, improbable Stories, 
 g-;:/. ' and 
 
( 7 5 ) 
 
 and fuch as are no lefs impoftiblc than in¬ 
 credible. 
 
 The Godalmin Impofture (which gave Rile 
 to this Diicourl'eJ is too frefh in all our Memo- 
 ties, to admit Repetitions here, and .will, on 
 the leaft. ier-ious Reflexion, appear to be a 
 plain Proof of the Truth of what’s here.inftnu- 
 ated and without the Spirit of Prophecy, we 
 may venture to fay, that had it not. been, lb 
 clofely followe i, ithad-nqt been without' its 
 Believers, and might, in Time, been confirm¬ 
 ed by Authors ami-Copiers, (o received a. 
 Sanction, that woulThay^ ftanjped, a Gurgen¬ 
 cy on it, equal to, if nut exceeding, thy fe Sto¬ 
 ries here related. 
 
 Let all luc.h ftrange and monftroas ^Births 
 then, that partake not of the human Specie^ 
 fo idle in themfelves, and of fuph a fatal,Ten¬ 
 dency to the Child-bearing Part pf the -Sek, 
 ba juftly (as they deferyeTrajeefed. Let their 
 Authors be treated with d,ye Contempt, .and 
 let them all take Warning from the Safe oft 
 thofe concerned in this late Inftance, how they 
 impofe on the World,- for lbma or other- wi ll 
 do Juftice to the Public k, without Fee or R.e- 
 
 WA! 
 
 It is certain, that all Animals are boftj, of 
 their own, and not of the Seed of another y for, 
 the Laws of-Nature in the Generation of Ani¬ 
 mals, -are certain and. -jyachaugeabfo, w»hidi 
 cannot be altered by any, bat .by jhe. Onnfi- 
 potent Creator Himfelft who. made them. 
 
 In thedmall Edifice of a Chicken, and ailTs- 
 Affcionsand Operations, tj^eFinger of God, b.r 
 the God of Nature, doth reveal him feif.-rv.rv.. 
 more fublime and divine Artificer therefore, 
 
 K z (than 
 
 
( 7<S ) 
 
 (than Man is) feems to make and preferve 
 
 Man. 
 
 What is there (lays the learn’d Harvey) in 
 Generation, that, by a momentany Touch, 
 can orderly conftitute the Parts of a Chickeh, 
 by ariRpigenefis,and produce an uriivocal Crea¬ 
 ture like it fell? Limn ah the Members of the 
 Chicken in an Egg, which is now expoled to 
 the wide World, and often tranfported a great 
 Way off. 
 
 For nothing can make and generate it- 
 felf into another’s l.ikenefs. Philofophers do 
 generally agree in this, thattho’the Woman, 
 by the. Force of Imagination, may imprefsfome 
 Stain or Mark on her Foetus, yet Ihe can never 
 alter the Species, becaufe that is not the Work 
 of Imagination, but of the external Formative, 
 Agent, or Power ; lo that Men can beget only 
 Mankind, their Semen being fufceptible of no 
 other Form. 
 
 As often as there is a Conception in a Wo¬ 
 man, its Progrefs on feveral Accounts may be 
 hindered, but it can’t be transformed into ano¬ 
 ther Species,, by any Caule whatever. For 
 fince no Rudiment of any other Animal, than 
 what’s human, can be contained in femtne bu- 
 rnarn, it is impoffible any other Animal, but 
 what’s human, can be produced. Arid feeing 
 every Semen proceeds from the very Subftance 
 of the Animal, whole Semen it is, the Seeds 
 themfelves muft neceffarily differ amongft 
 themfelves, as much as the Animals do \ fo no 
 Animals, differing in Gems and Species, can be 
 mutually transformed into one another’s Like- 
 nefs; wherefore luch Changes can never hap¬ 
 pen in utero mtdieWi. 
 
 But 
 
( 77 ) 
 
 But wore it poffible, a Generation of any 
 other than human Monftcrs would confound 
 Nature, deftroy the beautiful uniform Order 
 eftablilhed by the Great Creator, when he 
 hrft ranked and difpofed the feveral Species of 
 Animals, and at their Creation pronounced the 
 Almighty Fiat. 
 
 Let thole then who dare think there is no 
 God, tell us who it was that hid the Plan of the 
 alionilhing Structure of the Univerle ? And who 
 contrived the immenfe, but beautiful Extent 
 and Order of the Creation ? And who created 
 the amazing Fabrick > 
 
 Who it was that created all Animal Beings, 
 and ordered the Propagation of their feveral 
 Species out of their own proper Seeds, without 
 Confufion. And who implanted in them the 
 ftrong Inclinations for that Purpole. 
 
 Who it was (hat taught the Spider to w^ave 
 and fpread its Net lb furprifingly to catch 
 Flies for its Suftenance, when lcarce out of its 
 
 Egg- 
 
 Who it was that taught an Infant (when ca¬ 
 pable of nothing elfe) lo dextroufly to fuck its 
 Nourifhment, the Moment it breathes the free 
 Air.-—Who taught the Bees and Ants to build 
 their Cottages, and furnifh their Store-houfes 
 
 for further Exigencies-The Birds their 
 
 Nefts, c Ire. that all Ihould, by the unalterable 
 Laws of Nature, fo exa&ly, fo orderly, and fo 
 furely, propagate each their Like, by an uny- 
 vocal Generation, for perpetuating their feve- 
 ttl Species. 
 
 Who, but the Great God and Creator of 
 all Things, who laid, Let the Forth bring forth 
 P? a fs> the Herb yielding Seed oftcr his Kind } avd 
 
 the 
 
(70 
 
 the Tree yielding Fruit after his Kind , whofe Seed 
 is in k[elf, and it was fo, Gen. i. 2. He who 
 created the great Whales , and every Jiving Thing 
 that moveth, ver. 21. He who made the Be aft < of 
 the Earth after his Kind, and Cattle after their Kind, 
 and every Thing that crecpeth upon the Earth after 
 his Kind, Gen. i. 25. I 
 
 As to human Monikers, -however ftrange 
 they may appear to Ibrne, yet may they be 
 readily acounted for, according, tq the Syftem. 
 of the Animalcuia , for when two of them get 
 into one Ovum, a Monlter ;is boruofeout le ; 
 that is two Foetus's fticking to one another by 
 l'qme Parts of their Bodies, which is not more 
 wonderful than to lee.two Fingers,fticking to¬ 
 gether. r 
 
 One of theft two Animalcules in the Ovum , 
 being ftronger, crufheth fome Parts of the 
 weaker, which', being deprived- ofitsmutritious 
 Juice, decays. Hence one appears with two 
 Heads on one Trunk, and another with two 
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The Sooterkin Difle&ed. 
 
 I N A 
 
 LETTER 
 
 T O 
 
 JOHN MAUBRAY, M. D. 
 
 ALIAS 
 
 Vn. GIOVANNI. 
 
 Wherein is clearly provM, 
 
 I. That there never was fuch an Animal in the World. 
 II- That God never made it. 
 
 III. That the Devil cannot make it. 
 
 IV. That it is Impudence to aflert it. 
 
 ' V. That it is Stupidity to believe it. 
 
 VI. That it is a mere Fiction of his own Brain. 
 
 VII. That it is contrary to the Opinion ofthemofc 
 ' learned Ph^ficians and Philofophers in our Days, 
 
 who maintain the Truth of Univocal Generation. 
 
 By a Lover of Truth and Learning . 
 
 For Knaves and Fools being near a-kin , 
 i As Dutch Boors to a Sooterkin. 
 
 Hud. Part III. Cant. Ill, 
 
 LONDON: , 
 
 Printed for /f. Moore near St. Paul's, and Sold by the 
 Bookfellers of London and Ifejlminji'er. 1726. 
 
THE 
 
 SOOTERKIN 
 
 DISSECTED, 
 
 Sir, 
 
 MONG the antient Jews there 
 were a fort of Natural 
 Philosophers who are by 
 the Rabbins called Sapentes In~ 
 quijttionisj or Sapentes Scrutationis, from 
 their diligent Enquiry after natural Cau- 
 fes. Among the Heathens we have a con- 
 fiderable Number who were no lefs care¬ 
 ful in purfuing the lame Study j but the 
 Modern Chriftians excell them both from 
 better Opportunities they have in the Im¬ 
 provements of Learning. 
 
 A 2 
 
 
 The 
 
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 The other Day going thro* among 
 the Bookfeilers-Shops (as is my Cuftom 
 when I read in the News-Papers of any 
 Book Just now Published) I 
 found one bearing this Title, The 
 Female Physician, By John Mau - 
 bray, M. D. I was mightily taken with it, 
 becauie the fir ft Chapter treated of G o d. 
 Now thought I, this certainly muft be a 
 good Book, and nothing but T ruth in 
 it. I was foon undeceived, and found 
 the common Proverb verified, that, In 
 nomine Dei incipt omne malum. Being defi- 
 rous to be acquainted with the Author,} 
 (ent a Letter by the Hands of Mr. Gilbert 
 Knowles ; foon after you was fo kind as to 
 pay me a Vifit, and defired me to give my 
 Remarks on your Book, which I could 
 not then do, having read little of it j but 
 afterwards going forward, till I came to 
 Page 375, I met with a ltrange Palfage 
 concerning the De Suyger, which 1 fhall 
 here tranfcribe in your own Words, and 
 give you my Thoughts freely of it, and 
 refer them to the Judgment of the learn¬ 
 ed World. 
 
 < That 
 
5 )Hl 
 
 That tlicfc Births in thole Parts are 
 often attended and accompanied with a 
 ‘ monftrous little Animal, thelikeftof any 
 f Thing in Shape and Size to a Moodi- 
 warpj having a hook d Snouts fiery 
 ‘ fparkling Eyes, a long round Neck, and 
 f an acuminated fliort Tail, of an extra- 
 f ordinary agility of Feet. At firfi Sight 
 1 of the World’s Light, it commonly yells 
 ‘ and fhrieks fearfully, and feeking for 
 f a lurking Hole, runs up and down 
 /like a little Daemonj which indeed I 
 ‘ t0 °k it for the firfi: time I law it, and 
 f that for none of the better Sort. More- 
 f over, 
 
 f The following accidental Pafiage is lo 
 r remarkable, that I cannot pals it by, in 
 ■ order to convince and latisfy others of 
 f this admirable Truth 5 namely, that not 
 
 * many Years ago, in coming from Ger- 
 ' many over Fall: and Weft Friejland to 
 1 Hollandy I took Palfage in the ordinary 
 ( Fare-Velfel from the City of Harlingen 
 1 for Amjlerdamy over what they call the 
 
 * Zvyder Zee y which is commonly reck- 
 ' °ned a Voyage of ten or twelve Hours, 
 
 3 • ‘tho’ 
 
< tho’ at tliis time we happen’d to be hear 
 c thirty fix Hours on our Voyage. A- 
 
 < mongft the better Sort of Paflengers, 
 
 < w ho pofiefs’d theCabbin, there happen- 
 
 < ed to be a Woman big with Child, of 
 c a very creditable Afpedfc, who afterwards 
 
 < told me, that fhe was bound for Am- 
 
 < jlerdam , on purpofe to buy (ome Ne- 
 
 < celfaries for her Lying-in at the eafieft 
 « Rate. When in the interim the good 
 
 < provident Woman was taken all at once 
 c aboard the Ship with a fudden furprizing 
 ‘ Labour i upon which Occafion, in fhort, 
 
 1 I immediately lent her a helping Hand. 
 
 ‘ Upon the Membranes giving way, the 
 ‘ forementioned Animal made its wonder- 
 c ful egrefs, filling my Ears with difmal 
 
 < Shrieks, and my Mind with greater Con- 
 c (ternation ^ when not immediately recol- 
 
 < Jedting what I had either read or heard 
 c of this Monfter, I could not help con- 
 f tinuing in my Surprize, untill I heard 
 f iome of our accidental Company call 
 c it De Suyger , as they went about to kill 
 f it -, upon which I immediately laid the 
 f Woman of a pretty plump Girl, who, 
 
 < not- 
 
7 
 
 f notwithftanding al1 this, had no Deformi- 
 f ty upon her, have only many dark livid 
 ‘ Spots all over its Body, which I prog- 
 
 * nofticated might turn to an univerSl 
 ‘ Scurf; in the mean time I order’d the 
 ■ exprefs’d Oil of Almonds to be diligent- 
 
 * ty ufed as foon as we landed. After- 
 f wards I had occafion to talk to fome of 
 
 * the molt learned Men of the {everal U- 
 ‘ niverities in thefe Provinces upon this 
 ‘ Head, who ingenioufly told me, that it 
 ‘ was & common a thing among the fea- 
 ( ^ting and meaner /ort of People, that 
 ‘ fcarce one of thefe Women in three eC- 
 ‘ caped this kind of ftrange Birth, which 
 ( my own fmall Pradtice among them af- 
 1 terwards confirni’d, in(omiich, that I al- 
 f wa y s as much expected the Thing De 
 ‘ Suyger as the Child it felf; and befides, 
 
 * Women in like manner make a fui- 
 
 * table Preparation to receive it warmly, 
 c an d throw it into the Fire, holding Sheets 
 
 * before the Chimney that it may not get 
 
 * off, as it always endeavours to fave it 
 klf by getting into (ome Hole or Cor- 
 
 ‘ ner. They properly call it De Suyger, 
 
 * which 
 
(S) 
 
 which is (in our Language) the Sucker , 
 becaufe like a Leech it fucks up the In- 
 fane’s Blood and Aliment. Upon this 
 Head, and to this Purpofe, I might pro¬ 
 duce the Authorities of fundry good 
 Writers, but fhall content my felf here 
 at prefent with one of the fame Nation, 
 (qjiz.) the molt learned and eminent Le- 
 njinus Lemnius , who gives us a very re¬ 
 markable and particular Account at large 
 of a certain Birth which began with a 
 monftrous Mole, fucceeded by a Sucker, 
 and ended by a Produdion of an excar- 
 nificated Male-child. Theie Things 
 being fo, and proceeding merely from 
 the immediate Realons above-mention d, 
 ought to be a memorable Caution to all 
 Parents, that in their Conjugal Duties 
 they behave themfelves orderly and de¬ 
 cently, and not like infatiable Brutes, 
 but like rational Men, to the End that 
 their Families may be prelerv d, and. 
 their Perfons fucceedcd, not by an op¬ 
 probrious Race, but by an univocal Ge¬ 
 neration of hopeful Children j Men of 
 Probity and Integrity both in Body and 
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 Now, Sir, left I fhould exceed the 
 Bounds of a Letter, it’s time for me to 
 proceed to the Diffeddon of this Animal, 
 Firft, you call it a monflrous little Animal: 
 Here you ftumble in the very Threfliold 5 
 you iliould have call’d it a prodigious little 
 Animal. This is clear from the Definiti¬ 
 on of the two Wordsj Monflrous , i, e. what 
 Thing foever is brought forth contrary of 
 the common Degree and Order of Na¬ 
 ture 5 fo we term that infant monflrous, 
 which is born with one Arm alone, or 
 with two Heads. Prodigious, is that which 
 happens contrary to the whole Courfe of 
 Nature, /. e. altogether different and dif¬ 
 fering from Nature, as if a Woman 
 fliould be delivered of a Snake, a Dog, 
 or a Sooterkin. You call it little, it muff 
 needs be fo, becaufe there was a pretty 
 plump Girl to come after it; and if it 
 had been big, there had been no room 
 lor them both. You compare it to a 
 Moodinvarp, the mod part of your Englijh 
 Readers will not k know what you mean, 
 a blind Story I fear. You fay it yell’d and 
 kjueek’d fearfully, why did you not fay 
 
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 ic 
 
it (poke too? which if it had, fare it had 
 forbidden you to publifh fach ridiculous 
 Nonfenfeto the World, and to propagate 
 fach a notorious Lie to Pofterity. It 
 feems you have forgotten what the Apo- 
 ftle fays, refufe profane and old Wives Fa¬ 
 bles, i Tim. iv. 7. , 2 
 
 You fay it fought a lurking Hole ; well 
 
 it might, as blufliing to be defcribed in 
 fach a manner. You fay ’twas like a 
 little Damon ; it was well for the Woman 
 lhc was difpoflefs’d of io bad an Inhabi¬ 
 tant. But, Sir, it feems to me you have 
 read but little Divinity, elfe you would 
 never diftinguifh Damons into great Da¬ 
 mons and little Damons. You call it none 
 of the beft-, here you are guilty of ano¬ 
 ther Blunder, for no Damon is good: if 
 you had diftinguifhed Angels into good 
 and bad, you had done right. You fpeak 
 of its extraordinary agility of Feet, which 
 encreafes my Wonder-, you talk of its 
 fparkling Eyes, were not the Arteries 0 
 your own Eyes then inflam’d ? you muft 
 needs know the Conditions of diftinft 
 Vifion: Firft, -The Organ muft be well 
 
 difpofed- 
 

 ( »■■) 
 
 dilpoled. Secondly, There mult be a 
 due Diftance. Thirdly, There mull be 
 a proper Medium. Pray, Sir, had you 
 it in your Hand ? did you contribute no¬ 
 thing to its wonderful egrels ? had it Fea¬ 
 thers, Scales or Hair upon it ? I need not 
 ask you if you had it by the Tail, for I 
 fuppolc its Shortnefs would not let you 
 hold it; yet methinks you might have 
 held it by its hooked Snout. It’s ftrange 
 to me that the Royal Academy of Scien¬ 
 ces at Paris has not this Rarity. I went 
 to the Royal Society in London to ask for 
 it, an ingenious Member told me it was 
 not there. You lay j you have talk'd with 
 learned Men in Holland about it, lo have 
 I, and they all call it a vulgar Error. 
 
 I have lately leen a Book of Ruyfchius , 
 call’d, ( Tra&atio Anatomica de Mufculo in 
 f fundo uteri, page i G. where he confef- 
 ‘ les, that after lixty two Years Practice 
 f in dille&ins; diverle Bodies of Women 
 4 in Holland, he never law this Animal. 
 f But e contrario, quando formam Majfte 
 1 ex Secali comprejpe Jimilem adapta funt 
 ( h:c avo pro Molts volantibus habentur 
 
 B * 
 
 m 
 
( cujus denominationes <eque ac Relations 
 
 * foperflitioni foperftrutfa font , prolixion 
 
 * dilucidatione parum indigentes. 
 
 I have difcouifed with the Dutch Mid¬ 
 wives and Nurfes about this Animal , but 
 they are all clear to give their Affidavits, 
 that it has no Exigence in Nature, which 
 brings me to the next thing I intended 
 to prove, viz. that there is no fuch Ani¬ 
 mal in the World. I confcfs, Sir, I have 
 undertaken a very difficult Task, feeing 
 it is affirm’d by a Gentleman of your 
 Senfe and Education, and it is hard for 
 me to prove a Negative; for affimariti 
 incumhit prohatio. For once I fhall tranf- 
 grefs the Rules of Logick, and range my 
 Thoughts (for Method’s fake) into the 
 following Order, 
 
 Firfo I fhall endeavour to prove that 
 there never was fuch an Animal in 
 the World. 
 
 Secondly , That God never made it. 
 
 Thirdly , That the Devil cannot make it. 
 
 Fourthly , That it is Impudence to af¬ 
 fect it. 
 
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 Fifthly, That it is Stupidity to be¬ 
 lieve it. 
 
 Sixthly, That it is a mere FiXion of 
 your own Brain. 
 
 Seventhly, That it is contrary to the 
 Opinion of the moft learned Phy- 
 ficians and Philolbphers in our Days, 
 who maintain the Truth of Univo¬ 
 cal Generation. 
 
 I fhall join the firft and Iccond Head 
 together, becaule of their near Connexi¬ 
 on; lor certainly if ever it had any Ex¬ 
 igence in the World, God (who is the 
 Framer of all Things) mull be the Ma¬ 
 ker of it. We have a known Maxim, 
 that Feus & Natura nihil [admit frujlra. 
 Pray, Sir, where is the Ule of this Ani¬ 
 mal? Is it to fuck up the Child's Aliment in 
 the Womb , or to be catch’d and thrown 
 into the Fire voith Sheets before the Chimney 
 as you relate it ? God made every Thing af¬ 
 ter its Kind, Genef i. 11. and favo that it 
 was good, verf 2 2. and God blejfed them. 
 Pmfure your Sooterkin is of no kind of A- 
 mal, for if it is, it muft ofneceflity be 
 
( H ) | 
 
 either Oviparous or P iviparous, Malt or 
 Female , or Hermaphrodite j it muft needs 
 have a Parent Animal, for Nothing can 
 create or beget Nothing. This implies a 
 Contradidion, unlefs you fet up for fpon- 
 taneous Generation , and that there is Inch 
 a Bird as the Phcenix. The ignorant Vul¬ 
 gar are certainly in the right, who aferibe 
 the Caufe of this Animal to the Moon, 
 for nothing but Lunacy can produce it. 
 If there is any fiich thing as equivocal 
 Generation ; Why not a Bird or a Man 
 produced this way fometimes? Why no 
 new Species now and then? There muft 
 certainly be a pre-exiftent Animalcule. 
 
 I can’t allow my (elf to believe that the 
 Stoves produced them, becaufe thefe are 
 generally uled in Churches, and the Mi- 
 nifters would forbid them. No Animal 
 is bred of Corruption whatever be its Ni¬ 
 dus. Hudihras was but in his philofo- 
 ph'y when he laid. 
 
 Jujl like a Maggot in a Sore, 
 
 Does that which gave it Life devour . 
 
( *5 ) 
 
 How can they breed when the Parent- 
 Animal be deftroyed ? When we kill our 
 Bugs here, they return not again, but 
 your Sooterkin returns often though it be 
 burnt; if they are fo plenty as you lay in 
 Holland , that Icarce one in three of the 
 Sea-faring Men’s Wives elcapes having 
 them, it were good Bulinels for lome to 
 be Sooterkin- Midwives, or Sooterkin Catch¬ 
 ers there. All the Creatures which God 
 made were very good, but your Sooterkin 
 is not very good, ergo God never made it; ^ 
 pobatur minor. That is not very good that 
 fucks up the poor dear Infant’s Blood and 
 Aliment, but your Sooterkin fucks up the 
 poor dear Infant’s Blood and Aliment, 
 ergo your Sooterkin is not very good, Gen. 
 i. 31. and God favj every thing that he 
 had made , and behold , it <was very good 
 I appeal to tender hearted and afFe&ionate 
 Mothers for the Proof of the major Pro¬ 
 portion. I appeal to your ownDelcrip- 
 tion of this Animal for the Proof of the 
 Minor y and (I hope) nay, I’m fure, you 
 can’t deny the Condulion. The Dutch 
 Mothers call their Children Sooterkints , 1. e. 
 
 a Iweet 
 
 1 
 
(Id) I 
 
 a fweet Child, but are Strangers to your 
 De Suyger. Having clear’d this Point, 
 the next is evident (viz.) that if God has 
 not made it, the Devil can’t. Prov’d by ; 
 this Syllogifm, he that can’t create a FJy 
 cannot create a Sooterkin 5 but the Devil 
 can’t create a Fly> ergo he can’t create a 
 Sooterkin. I prove the Minor thus, he 
 that can create a Fly mull be Omnipotent, 
 but the Devil is not Omnipotent, er^o 
 he can’t create a Fly, far lefs a Sooterkin, 
 with a hook’d Snout, fiery fparkling Eyes,* 
 a long round Neck, and an acuminated 
 Ihort Tail, with an extraordinary agility , {i 
 of Feet, &c. Pofiibly you’ll objeft and 
 fay, that the Devil made thole Lice and 
 (warms of Flies and Frogs which were 
 lent upon SEgypt. I anfwer, he did no 
 fuch thing, but only deluded the Senfes, 
 he being Prince of the Power of the Air 
 can condenlate it, and by the Divine Per- 
 milfion turn it into what Shape hepleafcsj 
 ‘but I am more apt to think that it was 
 the Devil himfelf than any Creature ol J 
 his making, that it was fome Hobgoblin, 
 Fairy or other lent to affright you and the 
 
 reft t 
 
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 reft of the Paflengers in the Veflel. Evil 
 .Spirits can fometimes turn them(elves into 
 various Shapes and wondrous Forms j fuch 
 | ( &sSerpents,Toads, O wls. Lap wi ngs, Crows, 
 Ravens, Goats, Hogs, Dogs, Aftes, Cats, 
 Rats, Wolves, Bulls, Sooterkins t jf the 
 Devil can create one thing, why not ano¬ 
 ther? why not Gold, Silver, and precious 
 Stones? and ir fo, why are his Favourites 
 lo poor? I hope this is clear’d up beyond 
 all exception. I come to the next thing, 
 which was to prove. 
 
 That it is Impudence to aftert it. 
 
 But for brevity lake, I {hall join this and 
 the following Head together, m, 
 
 That it is Stupidity to believe it. 
 
 Excufe me, Sir, If I am unwilling to 
 be impos’d upon in my Intelledualsby any 
 Man’s cturcs i(p v i. e . ipfe dixit , be his Cha- 
 ra&er what it will. Ariftotle is my Friend. 
 
 is my Friend; but Truth is my greater 
 Friend. I was once in Converfation with 
 a Gentleman who boldly affirm’d, he could 
 hft a Man’s Shadow and put it in between 
 the Sun and him. I paus’d a little, and com 
 hder d this Aflertion to be contrary to this 
 ^ftabliffi’d Law of Nature, that if you place 
 
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 an Opake Body between a luminous Body 
 and a plane, it will caft a Shadow in a direct 
 • Line. I ask’d what he would have for this 
 Performance. He told me, a Guinea. Hold, 
 Sir, faid I, before I’ll give you this, you’ll 
 be pleas’d to anfwer me a few Queftions. 
 i . Can you ftop the diurnal Rotation of 
 the Earth upon its own Axis from Weft to 
 Baft? z. Can you ftop the Motion of the 
 Earth round its own Orbit from Eaft to 
 Weft ? 3. Can you ftop the Flux and Re¬ 
 flux of the Sea? Can you make Iron, which 
 is fpecifically heavier than the Column of ji 
 Water, on which you lay it, fwim ? He an-| 
 fwered no, Sir, I cannot indeed. Then 
 faid I, neither can you perform what you^ 
 have undertaken: he that can alter one Law a 
 of Nature can alter all the Laws of Nature, , 
 therefore you cannot alter this. A very 
 fine Gentleman who was in the Company, 
 and had Univerfity-Education, was fo well '4 
 pleas'd with my way of Reafoning, that.;; 
 they hifs’d the other to Scorn. Now, Sir, .a? 
 I’ll make a very fair Bargai 11 with you, I’ll give 
 you a Guinea for every Sooterkin you brings 
 over from Holland, provided the Mother^ 
 
 and Midwife ilia 11 atteft it, and the Royalj 
 
 Society 
 
k 1 9 
 
 Society in London {hall be Judges whether 
 tis the very Sooterkin or not. Never think 
 to cram down my Throat fuch a notorious 
 Impofture. To deal plainly with you. Sir, 
 (for I hate Flattery) you lay you could not 
 pafs by this fo remarkable and accidental a 
 Paflage in order to fatisfy and convince o- 
 thers of this admirable Truth j allow me to 
 be infpir’d with the fame Zeal for Truth as 
 you are, and be not angry with me, tho’ I 
 endeavour to fatisfy and convince others of 
 this admirable Faliliood. I appeal to your 
 lelf, if you would not call it impudence to 
 affirm, that the Ravens bring forth their 
 Young at their Mouth, and the Weefle 
 piopagates at the Ear 5 that the Male is chang- 
 ed into the Female , and the Female into the 
 Male j that Moles are bred of the Earth, and 
 Vipers out of Allies *, that Lice are made of 
 Sweat and Mites of old Cheefe 5 that Wafps 
 are made of the Flefh of Horles and Bees are 
 made out of Rue 5 that Beetles are made out 
 of Cows Dung,and Scorpions out ofWood- 
 that Herbs are made out of Animals , 
 and Animals out of Herbs ; that Smallage and 
 Ajparagus are made out of the Horn of a 
 Stag or Roe-buck: Admirable Untruths! 
 
 C z fuch 
 
C I 
 
 fuch a Truth as your Sooterkin. I ferioufly 
 declare that it was not Vain-glory, Arro- 
 gancy, or Prefumption, Envy or Prejudice 
 at your Perfon that has put me upon wri¬ 
 ting this Letter to you, but having apply- 
 ed my Mind to the Study of Nature, and 
 to the diligent fearching into the Secrets 
 thereof, I could not forbear fending you o 
 my Remarks upon this Animal. Seeing 
 you one Day upon Change, I told you v 
 I would print againft it, and I exped your 
 Anfwer lo foon as your Conveniency will it 
 allow. 1 hate all perfonal Refledions, and 
 Jove dearly to keep clofe to the Subjed in 
 hand. I regard not Quis dixit fed Quid 
 Dictum, who fays it, but what is faid. 
 The next Thing in order to be proved is. £ 
 That it is a meerFidion ofyour own Brain. ~ 
 It’s hardly to be imagined that a Gentle¬ 
 man of your Letters can be ignorant that 
 the different Ways of knowing the Exigence 
 of any Being may be reduced to thefe Four, 
 Perception , Judgment , Reafon, and Sen fation. > 
 You can never pretend to the three former ^ 
 of thefe, whatever Recourfe you may have ( 
 to the lafh Are you fure. Sir, your Senfes \\ 
 Were not deceived ? Are you very fure ? I’ll : 
 
give you five Experiments to prove that 
 Men of the cleareft Heads, profoundeft 
 Judgments, readieft Wit, deepeft Under- 
 ftanding and brighteft Parts may have their 
 Senfes deceived lometimes: Firft, When 
 they are dreaming, they very often hear Sounds 
 and fee Colours, tho’ in reality there is no 
 fuch thing. Pray, Sir, of what Colour was 
 this Sooterkin ? Was it black, on blue, or red, 
 or ’white, or green, or yellow, or a Mixture 
 of all thefe, or was it fpotted ? Secondly, 
 Perlons in a Phrenzy, or a violent Fever, 
 fee things without them which really are 
 not. Thirdly, Some Perlons often hear 
 ringing of Bells in their Ears, or a certain 
 Sound which they judge to be at a great 
 diftance, when the Caule of it is very near 
 them lei ves, tho at the lame time there is 
 no fuch thing. Fourthly, Some Perfons i- 
 magine, that a Candle or any other Imall 
 Objed at a diftance appears double; this is 
 the Cale of Men in Drink, or of thole who 
 prefs the Corner of their Eye with their 
 Finger, fo that then there will appear to be 
 two Objeds. Are you very lure there 
 Was but one Sooterkin ? Could not your 
 fmall Pradice in thole Parts dilcover two at 
 
 a Birth ? 
 
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 a Birth ? what no Twin -Sooterkins as wel 1 
 
 as in other Animals? Fifthly, Some Perfons 
 if they nvink in the Dark with their Eyes 
 upon the Flame of a Candle at a little dif- 
 tance, they (hall imagine they fee Rays of 
 Light, which feem to ftream from the Flame 
 upwards and downwards in the Air, and 
 yet really they are nothing. Be fo kind as 
 to let me know, whether in the Night, or 
 by Day-light, you (aw this Sooterkin, then 
 I fhall be more capable to judge. I look ; 
 upon your Sooterkin to be of the lame Spe- 
 cies with Hirco cervus, ensrationis , Chimara, ji 
 univerfale a parte ret, of an imaginary Ex¬ 
 igence. 1 come now to the laft Thing, jy 
 which is to prove. That it is contrary to 
 the Opinion of the mod learned Phyfici- 
 ans and Philofophers in our Days, whow 
 ' maintain the Truth of Unhocal Generation. . 
 
 Lelt I fhould feem partial and invidious, 
 and to have a Defignagainftyou more than 
 another Man, I fliall put all the equivocal - 
 Gentlemen and Sooterkin-Dodeors together, 
 and anfwer them after the fame manner, h 
 Your frit Patron is Hollerius , lib.de Mori, 
 inter cap. i. tells us, that a certain Italian, . 
 by frequent fmelling to the Herb Bafd, 
 
 had 
 
C 2 3 ) 
 
 bad a Scorpion bred in his Brain, which 
 caus’d long and vehement Pain, and at length 
 Death. Anatomy fliews us no Paflage^up 
 the Noftril to the Brain. I hope our Snuff- 
 takers will beware of this Herb as they would 
 of a Scorpion, Perhaps it has gone down 
 the Gullet into the Stomach, circulateswith 
 the Blood, refted in the Brain as its proper 
 Nidus together with your Sooterkin. 
 
 Fernelius is another learned Mail on your 
 fide, who tells us of a certain Soldier who 
 was flat nofed upon the too long Reftraint 
 of a certain filthy Matter that "flow’d out 
 of the Nofe, that there were generated two 
 hairy Worms of the Bignefs of one’s Fin- 
 j ger, which at length made him mad. I 
 went the other Day to fee one of the learn- 
 edeft Men in this City, a great Naturalift, 
 as well as a great Divine, and talk’d feri- 
 ouflywith him about this Sooterkin (for 
 you muff think) I have been at great Pains 
 to find it out, and he told me there was 
 no fuch Animal, and none but a Madman 
 would affirm it: I was truly afraid there was 
 a Ifoppage of fome certain filthy Matter in 
 your Nofe which might occafion this Phren- 
 zy. Lewis Duret } alfo a Man of great Learn- 
 
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 ing and Credit affirms he had come forth 
 with his Urine a quick Creature, of Colour 
 Red, otherwife like in Shape to a Millepes 
 or Hog-loufe. You fee, Sir, that Men bring 
 forth Sooterkins as well as Women. Rich- 
 
 
 laus Flor. God. lib. 7. cap. 1 8. affirms, that 
 monftrous Creatures, of fundry Forms, are 
 generated in the Wombs of Women, fome- 
 whiles alone, otherwhiles with a Mola, 
 fometimes with a Child naturally and well 
 made, as Frogs, Toads, Serpents, Lizards; 
 this may be true in a moral Senle, but 1 m 
 fare it can never be true in a natural. Jou- 
 bertus telleth there were two Italian Women 
 
 brought forth each of them a monftrous 
 Birth; the one that marry’d a Taylor, 
 brought forth a thing (o little, that it re- 
 fembled a Rat without a Tail, but the 0- 
 ther, a Gentlewoman brought forth a larg¬ 
 er, for it was of the Bignels of a Cat, bo.h 
 of them were black, and as foon as they 
 came out of the Womb, they ran up high 
 on the Wall and held faft thereon with 
 their Nails. I can’t fhun making this Re¬ 
 mark upon this wonderful Paftage, that if 
 thefe two Italian Women, the Taylor’s Wife 
 and the Gentlewoman had been delivered 
 
 x 
 
 
 at 
 
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 at the fame time in the flame Room, the 
 Gentlewomans Cat had catch’d the Tay¬ 
 lor’s Wife’s Rat, which would occafion fuch 
 a yelling and fqueeking, that would have 
 frighted the Spectators, as you was with 
 your Sooterkin. As for Levinas Lentnius t 
 he was a Collector of fabulous nonfenfical 
 Stories. ^ To all thefe learned Men, toge¬ 
 ther with your /elf, I prefer another learn¬ 
 ed Man, who without Difpute, is one of 
 the moft excellent Philofophers in our Days, 
 and Piofeflor ot Ph—-k in a certain Col¬ 
 lege of thif City, who owns no fuch Ani¬ 
 mal as the Sooterkin. If it were above or 
 within the Bowels of the Earth, he would 
 have it among his valuable Collections, but 
 he (nail'd at me when I ask’d for it. Were 
 there any Sooterhns before the Flood ? or 
 how were they preferved ? Can you not 
 procure its Skeleton from one of your Cor- 
 tefpondents ? will you do nothing to latis- 
 fy and convince me of this admirable Truth ? 
 j- or fliall I disbelieve it? You are pleafed to 
 tell us, that thefe Births in thofe Parts are 
 often attended with this monftrous little 
 K&nimal : Why thofe Parts more than any 
 | ot her Parts upon the Globe? Are there 
 
 D no 
 
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 no French Sooterkins ? no Spanijh Sooterkins ? 
 no hijh Sooterkins ? no Scotch Sooterkins ? 
 Strange! Why Holland {ho\i\A be productive 
 of theic Animals more than any other Part. 
 As for England) I am lure there is not one Soo- 
 terkin in it all. I am tired in purluit of it, for 
 I doubt it’s got into its lurking Hole by 
 rcafon of its extraordinary agility of Feet; 
 and there let it reft till you can pull it out 
 by its hooked Snout. 
 
 I hope the Ladies and Gentlewomen 
 have received unfpeakable Advantage from 
 your wonderful Medicines advertiled in 
 the Freeholder s-Journal) Wednesday OHober 
 ii ? 172.1, which I {hall transcribe for 
 the Benefit of the Publick, and give you 
 a few Remarks upon it. 
 
 ADVERTISEMENT. 
 
 Dr. Giovanni, by his Travels, Practice, ' 
 and great Experience in Italy 3 France, Ger¬ 
 many) Holland) dec. hath (in efpecial man- : 
 ner) y acquired the perfect Knowledge of i 
 the Myfteries and Secrets of Nature in all 1 
 Cafes of Indilpolitions and Diftcmpers in- > 
 cident to the Female Sex, young and old, j 
 married and unmarried, which (under God) 
 
C 2 7 ) 
 
 he infallibly cures, besides Cafes of 
 mon Practice, &c. 
 
 com- 
 
 He re&ifies Barrennefi it fe!£ and ren¬ 
 ders the Party deficient, capable of Con¬ 
 ception. 
 
 He immediately difeovers real Concep¬ 
 tion, and whether a Boy or a Girl be con¬ 
 ceived. 
 
 He gives molt neceflary Directions for 
 Women with Child, their due and ordi¬ 
 naryway of living, government of Health 
 in the firft, fecond and laft three Months 
 of their Times, Ignorance whereof is the 
 hofs and Ruin of fo many Women and 
 Children. 
 
 He prevents Abortion or untimely De¬ 
 livery in the moll dangerous Cafes, and 
 lengthens the debilated or weakned Veflels. 
 
 He alfo gives the Means to prevent as 
 Well as to facilitate and eafe a difficult and 
 hard Birth and Delivery. 
 
 He’s Matter of many more, even of 
 the greateft Arcanums of Nature, and is 
 to be ffioke with at Mr. Atkins s at the 
 Sign of the Boy and White Peruke , the fe- 
 cond Door on the right hand in A - 
 Mtdel-Jlreetj from eight to eleven, and 
 
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 four to feven$ and on previous Notice he 
 attends any other Hour. And, 
 
 February 6 , 172.2.-3, you caufed to be 
 put into the faid Papers the following 
 Advertilement. 
 
 Tho’ God and Nature have left no 
 Malady without its proper Remedy for 
 Cure 3 Men are left to ingenious lerutiny 
 for dilcovcry. As then the better Part of 
 the World hath hitherto been at a Lois for 
 that valuable and comfortable Remedy 
 which (out of Mercy) is provided for Wo¬ 
 man in the Hour of her appointed Sorrow, 
 Dr. Giovanni (out of tender Regard to 
 the Sex) gives Notice, that a certain 
 fimple Sympathetick Powder to be u- 
 fed in time of Labour for abating the 
 Pains, haftning the Birth, and ftrength- 
 ning the Woman (both before and after 
 Delivery) is to be had at Burtons Coffee- 
 Houle in Kings-Jlreet St. James's, and at 
 his own Lodgings (Mr. Anderforis) in 
 Nenv-Cajlle-Court, Butcher-rovo , without 
 Temple-Bar. 
 
 And for the Benefit of the Publick, that 
 the Price may fuit every Rank of People, 
 it is fold for five Shillings a Paper, Sealed 
 up with Printed Directions. N. B. 
 

 c 2 9; 
 
 N. B. The abovementioned Powder 
 never yet fail’d of anfwering its delired Ef¬ 
 fect in the above Cafes • and for a further 
 Defcription of it, refer to the Printed Di- 
 redions, which may be had at the Places 
 above. 
 
 February zoth, with this Addition. 
 
 N. B. The Powder is lealed up in luch 
 : Packets as may be conveyed by the Poll to 
 any Part of the Country. 
 
 I REMARK I. 
 
 Giovanni .] Is an Italian Word for John, 
 is not this impofing on the Vulgar, and 
 : making them think you are another 
 Countryman than really you are? It is 
 well known in London how that you are 
 a Scotchman. Is not this enough to make 
 all the Gentlemen of that Country fuf- 
 peded of Fallhood ? Is not this Equivoca¬ 
 tion with a witnels? It ft ms your Pa¬ 
 rents have not behaved themfelvcs orderly 
 and decently in their Conjugal Duties ac¬ 
 cording to your memorable Caution to 
 others, like rational Men, that their Per¬ 
 kins may be fucceeded not by an oppro¬ 
 brious Race, but by an univocal Gene- 
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 ration (for you are of the equivocal Kind) 
 and will find it hard Work by this Condud 
 to convince the World that you are a Man 
 of Probity and Integrity both of Body and 
 Mind. 
 
 REMARK II. 
 
 Acquired the perfed Knowledge of the 
 Mylleries and Secrets of Nature in all Ca¬ 
 fes.] May not you blulh at this AfTertion? 
 Hippocrates himfelf was not fo happy as 
 Dr. Giovanni (all Cafes) the belt of our 
 Phyficians cannot fay fo. 
 
 REMARK III. 
 
 Immediately difeovers real Conception, 
 and whether a Boy or a Girl ] You might 
 have laid, or Sooterkin. 
 
 REMARK IV. 
 
 Mafler of the greatefl Arcanums in Na¬ 
 ture.] Looks not this like a Quack, and 
 unbecoming a regular Phyfician who never 
 boafts beyond his Line? 
 
 REMARK V. 
 
 Under God.] Is not this taking the Name 
 of God in vain, who will never concur 
 
 with 
 
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 with an ignorant Prefcription, and blefs 
 improper Means? If a Man fhould pre- 
 fcribe corrofive Sublimate in a large Dole 
 inwardly, and fay, by God’s Bleifing, it 
 would cure the Patient, would he not 
 mock God ? Every Thing works accord¬ 
 ing to Nature, and we are not to exped 
 :| Miracles. 
 
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 REMARK VI. 
 
 Infallibly cures] I went once to a Tur- 
 ner’s-fhop near Fleet-ftreet, being direded 
 thither by a Bill put in my Hand in the 
 Street to receive a Medicine which infalli¬ 
 bly cures the Leprofy. I asked the Price, 
 they told me a Crown •, fo I put the Crown 
 in another Man’s Hand, to be given in 
 cafe of the Cure5 no, he would not trufl 
 that, he would have me to believe it in¬ 
 fallible, though he did not believe it him- 
 felf. Implicit Faith will never go down 
 with me. 
 
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 REMARK VII. 
 
 For the Benefit of thePublick.] This is 
 pretended, but what is meant by it, I 
 leave to others to judge. 
 
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 REMARK VIII. I 
 
 Barrcnriefs, &c.~\ This can never fail i 
 of rendring you acceptable to the fair Sex, 
 provided you can bring them into a firm 
 ■Beliefof what you fay. B ut why (Barennefs 
 itfelfr) in my Opinion Barennefs it felf 
 cannot be cured. Barennefs may be cured, 
 but what can a Man not do, who has ar¬ 
 rived at Perfe&ion, and is Mailer of the 
 created: Arcanums in Nature ? 
 
 Sir, A free and publick Recantation 
 of thole Errors and Abfurdities, will be j 
 an Honour done to Truth, and a Satis - 
 fadlion to 
 
 Tour no§ humble Servant, •, 
 Philalethes. 
 

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