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made an experiment on the
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as is usual in such cases,
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upon opening the Scalp, found that the Child had received a Blow on the Head
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supposed while living, but it is not improbable, but such Blow Night
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have been received by Accident
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Henry Jarvis
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Mays Buildings
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in the
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on his Oath
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saith, that last Night about Eight o'Clock, he went to see the
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Deceased Child, at the request of the Church Warden of that
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Parish, he being the Parish Surgeon, and hearing Mr. Thomas
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a Surgeon, had been to see the Child, Deponent thought it
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proper to call on Mr. Thomas to desire him to go with this
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Deponent, Mr. Thomas accordingly went with Deponent,-
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Deponent very Minutely Examined the whole of the Body of
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the Child externally, and found no appearance of Bruises
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marks any where, except on the Head, proceeded to Examine
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that, there was an appearance of blackness and discoloured
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between the Scalp and the Skull which supposes night proceed while living, but cannot with
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certainty undertake to say it was while living, next proceed
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to inform himself whether the Child was Born alive, and from
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according to
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it had Breathed.
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