[Illustration: _Cunicularii_ _or_ _The Wise men of Godliman in Consultation_] _They held their Talents most Adroit_ _For any Mystical Exploit_ A _The Dancing Master or Præternatural Anatomist._ B _An Occult Philosopher searching into the Depth of things._ C _The Sooterkin Doctor Astonish’d._ D _The Guilford Rabbet Man Midwife._ E _The Rabbet getter._ F _The Lady in the straw._ G _The Nurse or Rabbet Dresser._ A SHORT NARRATIVE Of an Extraordinary Delivery of Rabbets, Perform’d by Mr. _JOHN HOWARD_ Surgeon at _Guilford_. Published by Mr. _St. Andrè_ Surgeon and Anatomist to his Majesty. The SECOND EDITION. [Illustration] _LONDON_, Printed for JOHN CLARKE, at the _Bible_ under the _Royal-Exchange_. MDCCXXVII. The Account of the Delivery of the eighteenth Rabbet, shall be Published by way of Appendix to this Account. [Illustration] _A Short Narrative of an Extraordinary Delivery_, &c. Whatever may be the Fate of this Account, I think my self indispensably obliged to relate the Facts that I saw, and transacted my self, as also the Reasons which first induced me to enquire into the Truth of such an Extraordinary Event; but I here declare that I take on me no other Part of this Narration, than that in which I was actually concerned. As Mr. _Howard_ himself intends shortly to publish the whole Account, and prove every Circumstance of it, by such Evidences as will put this Matter out of all possibility of Doubt, I must refer to him for several Particulars here omitted. And as it will be impossible to judge impartially of this Fact, till the Evidences abovemention’d are produced, it cannot be doubted but all such Persons as are not governed by Prejudice, or some worse Motive, will suspend their Judgment till these Facts come to their Knowledge by a more certain way, than by flying Reports and Conjectures. The first Intelligence I received of this Matter, was on the 5th Instant, when I saw a very particular[1] Account of a Woman living at _Godlyman_ lately delivered of five Rabbets by Mr. _John Howard_, Surgeon at _Guilford_ in _Surrey_, a Man of known Probity, Character, and Capacity in his Profession, who has practis’d Midwifery for above these thirty Years.