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what she had been about, who made no Answer
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Says a Midwife was presently sent for who came and
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examined her in the Revenue of the Sister, Nurse
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& Dept. and the Midwife said she was sure that
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Haywood had been delivered of a Child but Haywood
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made no Answer thereto. Says she abt. an Hour
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afterwards saw the Necessary & found the Seat of it & the
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Floor very Bloody.
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Sworn the
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Mary Thorp
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Robert Young
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belonging to
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maketh Oath & saith that having opened and
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carefully examined the Body of a new born Male Infant
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supposed to have been suffocated & thrown down
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the Necessary belonging to Dyetts Ward in the said
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Hospital, he found the sd. Child to be perfect & full
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grown, that there was no actual Appearance
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of any Injury done to the Child, that he opened the
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Thorax & took out the Lungs in Order to make the
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usual Experiment whether they wod. sink or swin
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as it is the received Opened to Anatomists that
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if a Child hath ever breathed the Lungs will swin
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as on the contrary they will sink; that the Lungs
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did swin notwithstanding wch Dept. is far from
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being clear that the Experiment is concluded of the
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Child having laid three days in the Boy House by
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an sans of wch such a Fermentation might have
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been produced as to have occasioned Air to have
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