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Used the same vegetable boiled without any advantage. 



The late appearance of scurvy in the jail of Philadelphia 

 appears also to favour this opinion. The prisoners had 

 lived between three and four months^pon rye bread, w ith 

 melasses and water, for breakfast; fresh meat, with 

 dried pease and beans, or a soup made of these ingre- 

 dients, for dinner ; and Indian mush*, with melasses 

 and water, for supper. By the end of this period, a 

 large number of them were scorbutic, and did not re- 

 cover until they had used a considerable quantity of le- 

 mon-juice as medicine, and had eaten fresh vegetables, 

 very freely, for ten or twelve days. 



XII. Account of a Remarkable Tumour of the Face. 

 Communicated, in a Letter to the Y^nmo'Si, from Dr. 

 John A. Casey, of Georgia. 



BEING at Cambridge, in South-Carolina, some 

 time since, I heard a description of an extraordinary- 

 Wen. The account was so uncommon, that I deter- 

 mined to visit the person, the subject of it. She is a 

 black wench, 24 years old, quite corpulent, born of 

 healthy parents, and of a numerous family of children, 

 who are well-looking negroes, and none similarly affected 

 with herself. 



At the birth of this girl, there was a small tumour 

 over the left eye, iiiciining rather towards the temple. 



" Made by boiling the flour of Maize in water. 



