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on the left arm is above -l inch broad, and 4 inches long ; on her buttocks grow 

 a great number, which are flat by frequent sitting ; at her arm-pits and the 

 nipples of her breasts small hard substances shoot out, much slenderer and 

 whiter than the rest ; at each ear also grows a horn ; the skin of her neck of 

 late has begun to turn callous and horny, like that of her hands and feet. She 

 eats and drinks heartily, sleeps soundly, and performs all the offices of nature 

 like other healthy people, except that she never had the evacuation proper to her 



Hisloria Ulceris in Inguine dextro, Inteslinorum Fceces emittentis : a D"' Chi, 

 Earnshaw, Medico u4lcestrensi, descripla et communicata. Translated from 

 the Latin. N° 176, p. 1204. 



A woman who lived at Alcester, in Warwickshire, and who was about 40 

 years old, returning home from a neighbouring town was suddenly seized with 

 ft violent pain in the right groin, followed by hickup ; and half an hour after- 

 wards a tumour was perceived there as large as a nutmeg : this tumour became 

 gradually hard, and at length black. The patient was so much harassed by 

 fever and pain, as to be deprived of her recollection and understanding ; and 

 she was publickly prayed for, as one whose life was despaired of. At length, in 

 consequence of the application of a cataplasm, the inguinal tumour broke, and 

 from its aperture there was voided, for the most part unchanged, whatever she 

 eat or drank, within a quarter of an hour or half an hour afterwards, without 

 any pain, either in the ulcer itself or in the intestines. Thus one day while she 

 was taking some boiled milk, there issued from the ulcer first some of the milk 

 unchanged, then some that was curdled, with a frothing and crepitus (tanquam 

 ab ano) ; another time, when she had eaten some chicken and parsley, they 

 were both voided by the ulcer. On being called in, I found her in an ema- 

 ciated hectic state, but having at stated times evacuations by urine and stool, 

 without pain. The ulcer was 3 or 4 fingers in length, and I finger in breadth, 

 but of no great depth. An opening ptisan was prescribed, the first dose of 

 which came away "by the ulcer, without producing any evacuation per anum; the 

 next day a purgative bolus was given, part of which was discharged in the same 

 tvay half an hour afterwards. Stools however succeeded, and less came away 

 through the ulcer. The next day the same bolus was repeated, producing 3 

 copious stools, containing many scybala. After this, exsiccating traumatic drinks 

 were given, with occasional repetitions of the aforesaid bolus; by persisting ip 

 the use of which for about a fortnight, the patient got perfectly well. ;,, 



