Star.
London, England, 1814-09-05 00:00:00

Dr. Sims came with Mr. Wetherell: he heard all the
symptonts and exe:i•ined me, but pave it as his opi-
nion i was not with child, though he would not say
it Was impossinle, for all things were pas bk. will
Gov, yet he himscli should not pass his opisi n I
was. in the family way, but said he would not take it
upon him to say I was not, neither would he Revd
any opinion fif the c:!usc that had produced the et-
fects I had felt, or tee increase o. my size. Whot I
risked tam what he would prescribe for me to ere-
veet my sickness and pain, or to brine rite to en ap•
petite, lie msntioned the same as Dr. Atlenis lei
erescribe.d for me, het A'. ,ml,! tint prescribe any thin::
(Lather. He said, lie shnull suppose such en event
as this. if it took pl..ce, it would not be hid in a cor-
ner : I told him no, there must be. physicians and
medical men present: he saht.he should he glad to
be one—that he should be happy to be a witness tot
me against his own judgment. When he went down
stairs, Mr. Wetherell asked I.im what grounds he
had to suppose I was not in the family way ? Ile
assigned but one reason ; but said, it I was deceivet,
I was not a deceiver, Us I gave liberty tor every exa-
mination that was necessary. After this, some Jadies
came to see ,me, and upon mentioniag Dr. Sinis's
reason for his opinion, on of the ladies said, I have
had eleven children, and the objection he mentioned
happened to me with every one of them, therefore I
find there is no rule without an exception. This lady,
in examining me, said there was no doubt of my
being in a pregnant state. The. same judgment has
been passed by all those whom I have ssee that hive
been mothers of children, as I have lied the advice
and opinion of many..
1/ Alper . Dr. Sims had passed his judgments. I *sent
tor a medical man, whom I knew was strong in un-
belief that it could not be possible, xnJ therefore 1
said I seat for him, to know if he eotild preset ihe
any thing that would do me good, it I was not in the
family way. He heard my statement from' the be-
ginning, he examined me, and said it I was a young
married woman, he should say I was not in the fa,
mily way ; 1 asked him what disorder he would jedge,
I had to cause all the pains, sickness, and the increase
of my body ? he said, he looked upon it I had lodg
been in a debilitated state, and the severe pein I had
felt in the back was from a hurt in the kidnies, which
was the cause of all my other complaints ; that my
sickness proceeded from a ledement of bale in my
stomach, which prevented me from having an aepe•
Lite, tut remove the cause and the effects would cease.
He said he should net proceed with yid; .t medicires.'
neither should he give me milk and ere I tan
him 1 would not take any thing that I vilely would
be hurtful to a woman in a family way ; he sent me ,
two draughts, but Mr. Phillips advised me vet to take
them, an I was ordered net, and I sent to him to
sand me no mere. i
'6 Sosn aft,r he was gone Mr. Horgay came, he 1
heard the statement, and examined try breasts. arid'
outside my cloaths, said there was no occasion for
any further examination. I ashen him what woolti
be his judgment if I was a young married wornati
he sari that was an untair question, and he would
not answer it: he was then desired, to answer in his
own way ; he said he aid not think I was with child,
but his judgment might not be worth twopence ; I
then entiu:red what he thought my &ureter was ? he
said I had no disease, no dis rder, but eves In perfect
health ; when I had suffered from pain, sickness, hiss ,
of appetite, and had gone through more than 1 ever
e experienced in my Met, from chic 17th of March to
ti
that time, and at that time could-keep no
keep
my stomach but fruit, vegetables, and liquids, no-
thine solid could 1 take : how he could call this good
hiellth I know not. Here I have given a c:ear state-
ment of the different judgments of the Medical Gen-
tlemen that I was examined by, so it any other state-
ment is brought by men, it is from those who have
not seen me. Nine I have seen ; six out of the nine
passed their opinion I was in a state of pregnancy,
the other three said I am not ; therefore I was order-
ed that no more examinations should take place,
What had been already was sufficient to shcw the
different judgments of men. Since I saw you, I have
found a considerable alteration in myself, by feeling
the life much stronger, and moving in different ways
to what it had before, and more particularly this last
week, since I had a journey in the coach, when I re-
moved from my own house, I have felt it much
lower, and much greater weight.
64 Mr. Carder will give you the particulars hew I
have been for this week past, that my appetite re-
turned, and my pain and sickness left me, though in
other respects the feeling of life within is greater than
ever, but should it prove not to be a child in the end,
it must bring me to the grave, but as you have come
forward with your judgment to the public, and will
be attacked for so doing, I wish to put every weapon
in your hand, that if there is a possibility of.my being
deceived, that the life within should brag death upon
me, without making its appearance in the world, I
now promise to give you liberty to open my body,
that you may find sent the cause which pi-educed. alt
these effects, what life was in me to cause all these
pains and sickness, like travail pains ; the increase of
the size of Try body, which has increased so much
within a few months, so that either in death or life,
you will be enabled tojtelge of a cause that was never
brought before Medical Men, of a women at my a6e.
I remain, Sir, your's, with the greatest respect,
(From) " eneeen steseireor le"
66 The above taken from Joanna Soutlicutt's uttesth
by me, A.nn Underwerd.
" P. S. Mr. Phillips being in attendance lapels Mr;.
SoutlicoLt on the 12th of August, said, cn petting big'
hand on that part of t.'e abdomen, which a cli:seeded
womb would occuey, he distinctly felt a strong mo-
tion, similar to such that might be expected in a fs-
male about seven months expired in plepancy."

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.

" SlR—Several persons having expressed a wish
that I would visit Joanna Southcott, that they might
be better satisfied what foundation there was for a re-
port that she was pregnant, I consented to accompany
one of her friends, a surgeon and accoucher of expe-
rience, for that purpose, on the 18th of August. He
I informed me, on my way thither, that the most satis-
factory examination would not be permitted, but t!,at
this was not at all necessary, as nu prolessiimal man
could have a doubt ot her situation, upon seeing the
state ot her breast $, and feeling the outside ot her
ablomen.—Her al.pearance gave no reason to doubt
the troth of her statement, that she was in her 65th
year, and that she had Ceased to menstruate since she