The National Register. — London, England, 1814-09-11 00:00:00

SEPT. 11. no, there elitist be Physicians end Medilel Men present ; he said he should be glad to be one, that he sh-ulti be Isappy to be a witness foe Tee au 'just his own judgme. t. When he went does It stairs, Mr %V. asked him N hat grounds he had to supeose I was net in the family way Ile assigned but one reason, hut said, 111 was deceived, I was mot a d. ceiver, as I gave liberty fur every exan:innti n that was necessary After this, armie Ladies came to see me, and upon mentioint e Sims's reason for his opinion, nn. of the Ladies said, i have bad elevi children, and the obiectiou he mentieeed happened to me with ever one of teem. therefore I find there is no rule without an exception. This Laey, in examining me, said, there was no detibt of illy being n : pregnant state. The s ime judemeut has been passed by all those sh ~ have seen that have been 'ateliers of children, as I have had the at vice and opinion of many. After Dr. Sims had tweed his judgment, I sent for a medical mare whom T k''ew to he strong in unbelief that it could not he posale, Re , : therefore I said I sent for hies, ti, know if lie could prescribe any thie f , Ole ,vould du me good, if I was n t in the family way. lie heard ma statement from the beginning, he examined me, and said if I was a t mint! marl it'd woman, he should say I was in the family way ; I asked hint what diseider he would judge I had to cause all the t rains, sickness, He e the increase •it my bedv ; he said be looked noon it I had been long i a debilitated state, and the severe pain I bad felt ie my hack, was from a hurt in the kienies, which eaS the cause of all my other complaint:; list my sickness proceeded fr ut a lodger eat of bile in guy stomach, winch prevented me from having an appetite, hut remove the cause and the effects would cease. Ile said he should not proceed with violent ntedici :es, neither should he give me milk and water. I told him I would not take any the • g that I thought would he hurt ful to a woman in a family way ; he sent me two draughts. hot Mr. Phillips advised me not. to take them, and I was ordered not, and I sent to him to srnd ate no more. Soon after he was g - sne Mr. II ,nevy came, he heard the statement, and examined my breasts and outside my deaths, said there was no occasion for any farther examina. tioti. I asked him whet would be his judement if I was a young married woman ; he said that was au unfair question, and he would Not answer it ; he was then desired et answer in h,s own env: he said lie did nut think I was with child, but his judgment tuielit not be worth two-pence ; I then enquired whet he thou ht my disotde!. weal, said I had no disease. no disorder, but was in perfect beside when I had suffered from pain, sickness, loss of appetite, and had en• e 7 through more than ever experienced in my life, from the 17th of March to that time, and at that time could keep n o thing_ upon my stomach but fruit veuetables and liquids, nothing s. lid could l fiat. ; how lie could " a rt this geed health I know not. Hew I have riven a clear statement of tire different judgments of the Medics! Gentlemen that I was tx-mined hy, so if any other statement is brought by men, it is from those who have nut seen me. Nine I have seen ; six o• tof the nine 'weed their cannier% I was in a state of pregnancy, the ether three said I am not, therefore I was ordered that no more examinations sheidd take place. what had been already was suflicietit to chew the different judgments of men. Since I saw you, I hare found a considers hie alteration in myself, by feeling the life much stronger, and onovine in different ways to what it had before, and more particularly this last week, sincei bad a journey in the conch. when I removed from my town hens-, I have felt it much lower. end much greater weight. Mr. Carder will eive von the particulars hew I have been for this wsek rst, 11:w or eapetite re turned, mid my piths and sickness left me, thotteh in tither respects the feeliee of life within is greater den, ever, hut sh-nld it net ereve to he a child in the end. it mint bring rue to the grave. het ais van ieive come forward with your judgment to the public, and will'be attacked for se I wish te put every wearem in weir that if there is a pos sibility of try being deceived, that the life within shr,uld brine death upon me, µithnett m•ikine its appearance in the world, I now pronii.e to give von liberty le (Ten my body, that yen may filet out the cause which produced ati these effects, what life was in me to (muse e ll th e se yeti, s and sickness, like travail p ims ; the iticrease of the six. of test L e idy, which has wureesed so moirei wiibm a few months so that either in death or life, soe e ill be enah'ed to judge of a cause that was never brought before Medical men, of a woman at my age. I rei l iAti, Sir, Your's, With the greatest regpeet, JOANNA SOUTLICOTT. (From) The above taken from Joanna Soutlicott's moo . h by me t Ann Under• 141,d. P S. Mr. Phillips being in attendance nrnn S,mtheott on the 12th ot'Aneno, said, on punk , hi• hand .11 that port of the abdomen, "Which a distended womb OCCII;;‘, he r'istioctiv te't st strong urn. ti-m, similar to %adh that ttli , :!q be expected ia a feluale aleJat seveu mouths expirod p:•egnancy. ~.. -._ +O. • - THE NATIONAL' R.Ie_GISTER.. •I_. - ' I . " full l} " i g " a letter wriitei. by 1), S, s, at, emil,cl.l a on hew, one of the three ft. titleoten who, at ter visiting; JoasioJ,dutibts tie reality of her being pregnant : " SlR,—Several persons hayloft expressed s wish that I should ...lit Joanna Soathrott, that they . might he better satisfied what • initiation there was for a report 111.1 t she was pregnant, I cot:cut :A to accompany one of her friend ,, , a surgeon and accourheor of ‘perience, for that purpose, on the 18th of August. He itituraietl le on my way th thee, that the most satisfactory exainioation %Tail(' not be permitted, but that it was not at all neet•rs,iity, as 1:0 Jroftssional man could have any doubt of her situation, upon see ing the state • f her breasts. • " Her appearance gave no reason to doubt the truth of her state. merit, that she was iu her ti:it!i year, and that certain elfeeti had ceased since she was 43 : tnitstances miter ct inch het preg nancy was naturally incredible, and were it real, might well ehougli nave induced a belief that it was supernatni al. " 1 endeavoured, however, nut to prejudge the cant hut to orin. my opinion of her situation from the symptoms alone. as I have done had slut been only 45 years of age, and t.trtiore witbin the period ot probable preguiney." • Atlel a minute statemt nt of particulars of his examination of the woman, the wriwr concludes thus : " Considering all the above appearances, I did not hesitate to declare it to be my ()pillion that Joanna Southeott was not preg nant, bot was told that I vias the first mv.tical man that had sees bee, who was not perfectly satisfit d of the contrary. " I believe that her uterine organs are diseased, and that the breasts as is usual, sympathising with those parts. have an in creased quantity ot blood determine Ito them. 11:01 I titott2llt the external appearances such as out to lead to a hulk{ in tier rre4- nancy, I should have urged the p opticty of her subtritiits:_ to a inure satisfactory examination ; but teeling,. as did, a t o o g feet en. victim] that she was not with child, it seemed to me illinel'ev•ary to insist upon any thriller i n quiry. " flaying observed in the newspapers, that asseytions are re peatedly made, that eminent aceonelieurs have declared this woman to he pregnant, I am desirous not to bey reckoned of that 'mother. Vet, before I coneltule,.l feel it right to say that I ant conviove4 that this poor woman is no impostor, but -that she lairours under s strong mental delueion. " Sept. 3, 1814. JOAN SINS.* TO THE EDITOR. SlR,—The following Anecdot, was handed to me veqer• day, by a Gentleman of Tot ness, who knowing the onlaqu nate victim of imposture well, his narrative may he fivoily telied on. If it tends in the least to open the eves of the d-luded who fanatically believe that a lying and f pro , ohetess can possibly be the chosen vessel of the GA ofTr,ritti. I shall be happy in having giving it to the pubic. Edward Penny was a respectable yeomen at Inglehourn, nee . Tot, i ness ; he had a small freehold of his own, independent of a t farm he rented, and was doing well , when , becom in g a fol lowef of this woman, he put such implicit fai It in one of her predictions (that in the ensuin 2: year there would be nei • ther eating or harvest, as the world was to b de•n , oyed), tlia poor fellow thought he would save his seed wheat, and al,- solutely let all his land iay id:e. When tent-day came was oLiiged to part with a portion of his own protwrty,to n:.str the rent of the fa , to he occupied ; he never recovered Cie • blow, but sunk gradually in the world, until obliged to sokcit lief frtbco the C . ictid hand of parochial charity. Sincerely hoping ibis anecdote may be a warning to the weak:lad igty , • rant people who are now duped by her, I remain, yours, &c. B. Wilio.6.4lo• l ba "titiko••••~l...l. J.3.1•N1r mearm Bartholomew Fair eoninieneed Saturday. enrehidcd d iteAdly--it was attended 44 W•11;ti 11V I,..i•C;it number:, th. flit pro- Pllelori of sino.vc ai.d booth% einnpiainei! that vily ht!'4' iii "icy %vas spent. On Nton:lav, u drove of he locks leaviug S nit i'l• in'c ot . the beasts, in its tciyed into it sting that stol,:i t*,:t i t'.:e Brit Inn, and aff(.rded nitwit aintistsinent to the crowd a•-i wi" pushed the swing hackwmti and fvrward, fLi about tine iui• utateo ; the aniwal atuod quite 6011, - • . q ~~ .~,.. ~. .sft7