Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

CARTHAGENA, (South-America) October 4.

JOACHIN Navarro, wife of Francis Huertas, residing in the quarter of St. Anthony in this city, was brought to bed in the night between the 7th and 8th of last month, of a monstrous child, which lived three days after being baptized, and named Jean Raimond. Don Gasper de Villapueblo, assistant to the Surgeon Major of the fleet, and Don Vincent Ocagna, Surgeon in Ordinary, having anatomised the body, they sent it, together with an account of whatever they found extraordinary in their process, to the Society of Natural History at Madrid. In general, the infant was well formed with respect to its exterior figure, and most of its members; but it had three legs, and a double os pubis, three groins with each an orifice; in the cavity of the stomach were found two lungs attached to a single trachea artery; the great lobes being separated by the mediastinum; in size the heart was equal to two, distinguished by the auricles in the epigastrick region in the cavity of the belly, there was no stomach and the inferior part of the oesophagus exceeded the usual size; the colon had neither the common extension nor direction, but formed a stomach, from the lower part of which descended a membrane for performing the office of the rectum, being terminated by the anus: this kind of stomach was filled with excrement; and the two reins, which had the natural position, were of an extraordinary size.