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A VERY interefting and particular account is given of bones, 

 &c. being feen in an ovarium by Dr. George Young, in the Edin- 

 burgh Effays, vol. ii. page 273. A woman aged fifty, who never 

 had had a cliild, being obftruded for four months, thought fhe had 

 conceived, but her menfes returned, and fhe was troubled with a 

 flooding more or lefs copious for above a year and a half. This 

 complaint was at laft put a flop to by the powers of medicine, 

 but it gave rife to a number of other fymptoms which occafioned 

 her death. On opening her abdomen after death, a quantity of 

 bloody water flowed out, the cavity being filled with a fluid 

 of this defcription, and all its veflels very turgid. No bowel was 

 at firfl view to be feen, all that appeared being a great number 

 of irregular fleflay lumps full of a red watery liquor, fome as 

 large as apples, others about the bignefs of pigeons' eggs, and 

 of all intermediate fizes. Upoa examination they found all thefe 

 veficles were contained in one fac, of which the forepart had 

 been cut with the integuments of the abdomen. It was not 'till 

 after they had raifed this large cyft that the other vifcera came 

 into view. The left fallopian tube was very large, and no ova- 

 rium was difcoverable on that fide, unlefs this great tumour was 

 the ovarium enlarged to fo great a fize. The right one was 

 about the bignefs of a new-born child's head. It contained vifcid 

 white matter like mafhed brains, which ran together as fuet does 

 when put into water. In this were found three grinders, incafed 

 in their alveolar procefs, and an incifor, which may be feen de- 

 lineated in the Medical EfTays. 



Monsieur Baudelocque, an Accoucheur at Paris, who has 

 not long flnce publifhed a Treatife on Midwifery, likcwife relates a 



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