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RuYSCH, in the third decade of Adverfaria Anatomfca, mentions 

 his having found hair, bones, &c. in the ovarium ; and in the 

 fecond table annexed to tliat decade he has delineated (figure 4 

 and 5) a tooth which is a molarls that had grown in it. 



The fame celebrated anatomift (Thefaurus Anatomicus primus, 

 No. 17) gives the following Ihort hiftory of a woman's cafe, in 

 which it afterwards appeared that there were teeth contained in the 

 left ovarium, " Ouatuor quinqueve abhinc annis, (fays Ruyfch) 

 " mulier quzedam viginti et quatuor circiter annos nata, tempe- 

 " ramenti phlegmatici, morbo graviore implicita, f^piffime con- 

 " quefta erat, de dolore in Hypogaftrio, non fine pra:cordiorum 

 " anxietate, et febri continua ; tandem fato concefllt, unde nobis 

 " cadaver aperiendi nata occafio." He afterwards proceeds to tell ' 

 us that his fon opened the body, and that they difcovered a clujier 

 of teeth which lay in the ovarium, inclofed in a membrane. 

 [Thefe teeth are delineated in Tab. 3, fig. i, of the Thefaurus 

 above quoted.] 



One of the moft extraordinary inftances of this kind is that 

 related by Monfieur le Riche, in the French Memoirs for the 

 year 1743. In this cafe there appeared upon diffedion a large 

 fac occupying the left hypochondrium, and attached to the uterus, 

 bladder and colon. This fac contained a yellowifh ferum like 

 thickened or congealed oil, and a lump of hair the fize of a 

 lemon ; the hairs were matted together by the oil, and about the 

 length of a finger. About the bottom of the tumour there were 

 feveral cells filled with a kind of tallow, and in the middle a 

 bone of a very irregular figure, at the end of which were three 



teeth 



