fear'd she should be Deliver'd in the Church. Immediately she was
carried to a Neighbouring House, and her Pains abating upon the Relief
she there met with, she was afterwards convey'd Home, where her Pains
return'd with more Violence than before. Upon this, Doctor _Cartier_,
and Doctor _Mulatier_ two famous Physicians, and Mr. _Cortade_ a very
skilful Surgeon were sent for, and endeavour'd, tho' in vain, to give
her Relief. She continued for two Months under the torture of these
violent Pains, and voided Clots of Blood without Fibres or any carnous
Matter. Afterwards she voided a white Humour, that was sometimes
tinctur'd with Blood; and her Breasts were fill'd with an extraordinary
quantity of Milk. About the Fifth Month the Flux of the Blood ceas'd,
and she recover'd her Strength by Degrees, being still incommoded with a
troublesome Load in Her Belly, and never easy but when she lay upon her
Reins.

From the Year 1653 till the Year 1678, she suffer'd now and then as
violent Pains as those of Child-birth. When they attack'd her most
severely, she entreated the Surgeon to rip up her Belly, and so put an
end to her Misery. She was troubled with frequent Swoonings, and
unaccountable Longings for certain sorts of Aliment. Some of the Women
about her affirm'd, that they saw the Child move several times; but the
Surgeon and the Apothecary, who observ'd her very narrowly, and were
frequently call'd, could never perceive any other Motion than that which
attended the Mother's turning from one side to the other; for then the
Lump fell to the side upon which she lay.

During this space of time, which was Twenty five Years and some Months,
this Woman had several fits of Sickness, and at last died of a
continual Fever, in _January_ 1678, being in the Sixty second Year of
her Age.