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ing it away, to open the passage, he found that it was a polypus, 10 inches in 

 length. 



Having opened a young woman between 25 and 26 years of age, who had been 

 from time to time seized with a bloody flux, the surgeon found the colon and 

 part of the mesentery ulcerated. The mouth of this ulcer was so great, that one 

 might easily thrust a hand into it. It was stopped with a clue of worms, larger 

 than itself. 



Having stopped suddenly a flux of blood in a nun, who had her catamenia 

 (though she had a continual fever and a bleeding at the nose) before he had 

 used general medicines ; she fell all on a sudden into an apoplexy, and died 

 quickly after. On opening her, there was found in the lateral sinus, which 

 divides the brain from the cerebellum, a clot of blood as large as a hazel nut. 

 All the vessels of the brain were very much swelled, and full of clotted blood ; 

 and the ventricles were full of a serous humour. 



A maiden of 18 years old was subject to great head-achs, and almost con- 

 tinual faintings, and convulsive fits ; and for the last 2 years of her life, so 

 strongly seized with them, that she became blind, and continued in that con- 

 dition 2 or 3 months. After death she was opened : when the surgeon came 

 to the grey substance of the brain, he found above the ventricles, between the 

 cortical substance and the callous body, a lump of flesh, resembling the stomach 

 of a goose. Immediately after the callous body in the foremost ventricles ap- 

 peared ap ulcer, from whence issued out about a setier of matter. 



Opening the gall bladder of a widow of It) years old, there was found a stone, 

 like a hen's egg. That part of the liver which was near, was hurt; and the 

 matrix scirrhous. She had for 2 years the yellow jaundice. — In the ventricles of 

 the brain of a child was found a setier of water. — In another child, about 2 years 

 old, was found in the right ventricle of the heart, a polypus as large as a 

 pigeon's egg, and in the left auricle coagulated blood of the size of a walnut. 

 There was found also in the little lobe of the lungs 2 ulcers very distinct, from 

 each of which there issued a setier of matter. The ureter of the left kidney was 

 distended an inch, and its passage stopped by phlegm so hardened, that a knife 

 could scarcely cut it. — In a woman, about 26 years of age, and subject to 

 great diseases ; the vessels that, brought the blood to the membranes of the brain, 

 were greatly swelled, and full of polypuses ; 12 were drawn out, some 4 inches 

 long, and some 3. 



There was observed in a child newly born, and in due time, that it had 

 nothing of the bone in the hinder part of the head, the temporal bones, nor 

 of the frontal bone as far as the eyes, so that the eyes made an appearance of 

 2 horns, which the calves have when they come into the world, which standing 



