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feized after fome time with very violent and frequent convulfioii 

 fits ; neverthelefs, after a while it recovered perfedly, fo as to be 

 quite healthy. The nurfe, however, was obferved to decline in 

 her health from this period, and fhe continued weak and fickly 

 for a year or more, but at laft regained her ufual good ftate of 

 health in every circumftance, but that her rnenfes never after ap- 

 peared, and her belly encreafed in its fize as if fhc was great 

 with child. Notwithftanding this appearance of pregnancy fhe 

 was known to walk lightly, to labour hard, and her legs were 

 never obferved to be oedemalous. She appeared in perfect health, 

 and never once complained of any uneafinefs, except the inconve- 

 nience of carrying fo large a belly. She remained in this ftate for 

 upwards of twenty-three years, to the time of her being tapped, as 

 above-mentioned. Upon withdrawing the canula a confiderable 

 quantity of vifcid matter flowed out, mixed with hair and bits of 

 fat. Ten days after having undergone the operation the woman 

 died, and upon opening the abdomen the firft thing prefented to 

 view, under the peritoneum, was a large feemingly mufcular fac, 

 which extended acrofs the abdomen, upon opening which it was 

 found to contain balls of a fatty fubftance mixed with hair, and 

 likewife feveral bones. 



Thus far goes the information I have received of fuch obfer- 

 vations as were made at the time of opening this woman's 

 body ; but what follows is a defcription of ,the parts of genera- 

 tion, in the ftate they are in at prefent, in my poflieffion, and as 

 they were diffeded by thofe who opened the body. 



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