An exact diary of what was observ'd during a close attendance upon Mary Toft, the pretended rabbet-breeder of Godalming in Surrey, from Monday Nov. 28, to Wednesday Dec. 7 following. : Together with an account of her confession of the fraud. / By Sir Richard Manninghan.

  • Manningham, Richard, Sir, 1690-1759.
Date:
1726
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An exact diary of what was observ'd during a close attendance upon Mary Toft, the pretended rabbet-breeder of Godalming in Surrey, from Monday Nov. 28, to Wednesday Dec. 7 following. : Together with an account of her confession of the fraud. / By Sir Richard Manninghan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    . , * * * as poffble, which feem’d to me to contain fomething of.Subftance in its 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 allb along the right fide of the Belly, which I then judg’d to be the Falloppmn 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- Iwer’d, the laft time it leapt was about one in the Morning. I left her lor that time, and did not vifit her again till about five in the Afternoon, jointly with Mr. John B , Howard