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■with the thread which made him vomit ; 

 but, no polypus appearing, I defifted. 



June the 14th, the polypus has ne- 

 ver appeared; and this day he was dif- 

 mifTed the houfe, being free of' all com- 

 plaints. 



• July ^yt^, I fent for my patient to 

 the infirmary, and examined him before 

 feveral of the ftudents ; he informed me, 

 that, on the 13th of this month in the 

 morning, he pafTed feveral pieces, which 

 he fuppofed to be coagulated blood ; and 

 a long white fubftance which he mis- 

 took for a worm ; but, on taking hold 

 of it, he found it to be the thread that 

 tied the polypus. I examined his throat, 

 and made him vomit j but nothing pre- 

 ternatural appeared. 



March 29th, 175.^, he came to the 

 Hoyal Infirmary to get fome medicines 

 for a cold he had been lately feized with, 

 and, upon examining him, he feemed to 

 be entirely free from any ailments of the 

 polypous kind. 



