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<p n="260">what she had been about, who made no Answer<lb></lb>
Says a Midwife was presently sent for who came and<lb></lb>
examined her in the Revenue of the Sister, Nurse<lb></lb>
& Dept. and the Midwife said she was sure that<lb></lb>
Haywood had been delivered of a Child but Haywood<lb></lb>
made no Answer thereto. Says she abt. an Hour<lb></lb>
afterwards saw the Necessary & found the Seat of it & the<lb></lb>
Floor very Bloody.</p>
<p n="261">Sworn the <rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15073_date72">3d. day of Novr. 1762</rs>
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<lb></lb>
before me}</p>
<p n="262">Mark<lb></lb>
The<figure rend="mark"></figure>
of<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15073_n262-1">Mary Thorp</rs>
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</p>
<p n="263"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15073_n263-1">Robert Young</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15073_occ152">one of the Surgeons</rs>
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<lb></lb>
belonging to <rs type="placeName" id="LMSLPS15073_geo234">St. Bartholomew's Hospital</rs>
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<lb></lb>
maketh Oath & saith that having opened and<lb></lb>
carefully examined the Body of a new born Male Infant<lb></lb>
supposed to have been suffocated & thrown down<lb></lb>
the Necessary belonging to Dyetts Ward in the said<lb></lb>
Hospital, he found the sd. Child to be perfect & full<lb></lb>
grown, that there was no actual Appearance<lb></lb>
of any Injury done to the Child, that he opened the<lb></lb>
Thorax & took out the Lungs in Order to make the<lb></lb>
usual Experiment whether they wod. sink or swin<lb></lb>
as it is the received Opened to Anatomists that<lb></lb>
if a Child hath ever breathed the Lungs will swin<lb></lb>
as on the contrary they will sink; that the Lungs<lb></lb>
did swin notwithstanding wch Dept. is far from<lb></lb>
being clear that the Experiment is concluded of the<lb></lb>
Child having laid three days in the Boy House by<lb></lb>
an sans of wch such a Fermentation might have<lb></lb>
been produced as to have occasioned Air to have<lb></lb>
insinated it self into the Lungs.</p>
<p n="264"> <del>Severally</del>
Sworn the<lb></lb>
<rs type="date" id="LMSLPS15073_date73">3d. Day of November<lb></lb>
1762</rs>
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before me}</p>
<p n="265"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15073_n265-1">Tho: Beach</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="LMSLPS15073_occ153">Corr.</rs>
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</p>
<p n="266"> <rs type="persName" id="LMSLPS15073_n266-1">Robt. Young</rs>
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