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cafe where there were teeth, bones and hair found in the ovary. 

 The tumour formed by it in this inftance was fix or feven fingers' 

 breadth in length, and in thicknefs fomething about an inch and 

 a half. There was in the middle, fays our author, a bony rock 

 (roche ofTeufe) in which were fet nine folid teeth, which could be 

 eafily diftinguifhed into the different fpecies, viz. incifivi, canini, 

 and molares. The reft of the tumour was of a fteatomatous na- 

 ture, and contained a great deal of hair matted together by the 

 matter which formed the contents of the fac. 



One of the moft extraordinary cafes of bones, teeth and fuch 

 like fubftances having grown in the ovarium, is that of which I 

 am now to give fome account. I am forry that any thing I can 

 fay with regard to the ftate of the woman who is, the fubjed: of 

 this cafe muft be imperfecf^, as it is given from report, and is not 

 immediately within my own knowledge. Neverthelefs, as the par- 

 ticulars which we do know are very well authenticated, and from 

 their nature interefling, I flatter myfelf, therefore, that a detail of 

 thofe, and a defcription of the parts concerned, now in my pof- 

 feffion, will be deemed not altogether unworthy of the public 

 attention. 



About three years ago a woman, nged 50, died ten days after 

 ilie had been tapped for a tumour, which had appeared to be a 

 dropfical colledion in fome part of the abdomen. This had been 

 a tall well-made woman, and fhe had borne a child about twenty- 

 five years previous to this period. She continued in good health 

 for fevcral months after delivery, and nurfed a child, which was 



feized 



